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The last two subjects were capable of being applied by my Department,
and have been adopted where required, but the other subjects
require the definite resolution of the Council before action can be
taken.
At the forthcoming congress papers will be read and discussion
allowed emphasizing the necessity of adopting some measures of this
kind if any real attempt is to be made to prevent the present large
phthisical death-roll.
Your Council has already at the request of the London County
Council undertaken to supply that body with information and veterinary
reports respecting the condition of cows, byres, etc., in West
Ham, if examination should show that Tuberculous milk derived from
West Ham was being sold in London. It is needless to point out that
such a sale is unlikely to occur, at least in any quantity ; most of the
milk derived from West Ham cowsheds probably, is distributed in West
Ham itself. To prevent Tuberculous milk being sold it is necessary to
examine the cows in order to ascertain cases of Tubercular disease of
the udder, and I again suggest that a quarterly examination by the
Veterinary Inspector would prove an additional safeguard to the
public health.
The questions of voluntary notification of Phthisis, and the Steri•
lization of our own milk supply are debatable, but I venture to think
that the systematic examination of cows, with a view to detecting
obvious lesions, which have been shown to be a public danger, must
necessarily fall within the incumbent duties of a progressive Sanitarv
Authority.
I append a list of premises where cows are kept, which, in my
opinion, should be periodically visited, and in some of which the
Inspectors of Nuisances have occasion to serve notices to abate overcrowding
and to abate sanitary defects :—
14, Maryland Koad.
71, Carpenters' Road.
20, Vicarage Lane.