[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In one ease tlie herd of ten cows was examined and passed as clinically healthy, hut from enquiries it trans- pired that a short time previously two cows had been sold in the market. In all probability one or both of these cows were atfected. The other sample tiiken was traced to a herd of nineteen cows, the owner of whicii held a licence fo]‘ the prodnetion of Grade A ” milk. Here again a careful clinical examination of the lierd failed to reveal any evidence of disease, and necessitated tlie taking’ of samples for biological tests. Samples from groups of three cows were therefore taken and submitted for examination. One sample was returned as showing tlie presence of the tubercle bacillus. A further visit was paid to the farm to see the three cows from which this sample had been taken, but no evidence of disease could be detected. Individual samples from two of tlie cows (the third having been sold in open market) were then taken for biological tests, but with negative results. The assumption is therefore that the oft'ending beast was the one that had been sold. PUBLIC HEALTH (MEAT) REGULATIONS, 1924. Parts IV., V., and VI., of these regulations contain provisions for the protection of meat against contamina- tion by dirt, Ac. As might well be expected the I’egulations have been put into force in the various IlisTricts of tlie County with varying degrees of strict- ness. Generally speaking, it may be said that the standard of the shops, Ac., is best in tlie seaside resorts, but that elsewhere, with one or two notable exceptions, tliere appears to be only little dihei’ence from the conditions which obtained heretofore. In order to enable the Sanitary Inspectors throughout the County, of wliom only two held a Meat Inspection Certificate, to obtain some practical know- ledge of meat inspection, arrangements were made for a course of lecture demonstrations to be held last duly in Hull. They were given at the office of the Chief Food Inspector. Two courses were held so that the (dass should not be too large. Altogether 17 Sanitary Inspectors out of a possible 2T attended the course. Details relating to the condemnation of unwhole- some food in the several Sanitary Districts of the County will be found in Table XII.