[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -10- HOUSING. . . .0n® application for assistance uiider the Housing (Rural Workers) •A _s 'a? reo®1^ed during the year. This related to a scheme for the alteration or conversion oi farm properties in the Beverley”Rural District for occupation bv •agricultural workers, and the County Council' decided to make a grant of hoo in respect of the four dwellings to be provided. ' S 00 ln In general, other housing'activities were at a standstill. INSPECTION AND SUPERVIS'ION QF ROOD. (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) ORDERS, 1956 AID 1958. * .. . ,J0Uf Accredited” licences were • granted during the year. Two producers toinfmi /t1 f R 'Tuberculin Tested milk surrendered their licences during 1941. . At ihe end of the year there were 48 Accredited” licences and 8 || y VAX y A \J »i v A W _I V Tuoerculin Tested1’ licences in force in the Countv, herds are Attested” herds. Two of the Tuberculin Tested” ■unqy>p D^riJs t]}Q A0ar 388 samples of designated milk produced in the County submitted to the tests prescribed by the above Orders with the following results */’' .... Tuberculin Tested”. Accredited” Milk. ’- ... - Milk. nailed to pa.ss tRe Methylene Blue test ..... Contained, .pioliforni Bacillus' 7 i 7 ‘ 23 22 Failed' both tests ............. Passed both tests , / s • ■ 7i/' 51 206 , . 1 n nundred and two bulk samples of Accredited” milk were submitted to the oio,.og-ical test- for tubercle bacilli during the year,'four of which were returned positive. In thron of the herds concerned, no trace of any diseased beast could be on a o Hawing both clinical and biological examination of group samples of milk frov the govts in the herds involved.' ' In the; remaining herd, one diseased beast was deoocued and slaughtered. _ s. , , ' ’ TUBERCULOSIS- -ORDER, 1938. The following aro details of tho Work dono during the year and during 1940 under tho aboWc Order’ ° No. of _ animal s siaught oro.d • ■,.t, Tuborculos i§ . of pd.dbr b. ’<,, Tuberculous emabiation .. a. . Chronic cough- and -showing dofinito clinical signs of tuborculosis ....... Advanced cases Not advanced cases ........................ Cows in milk Cows not in milk Other bovine animals ...................... MILK AHJP DAIRIES -(CONSOLIDATION) ACT, 1915, and MILK AND DAIRIES ORDERS, 1926 AND 1958. ‘ _ f f There has been no change in the arrangements for the routine clinical examination oi dairy cattle by Officers of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. inree hundrea and lifty-seven bulk samples of milk (inclusive of the 2:02 referred to under the heading Milk (Special Designations) Orders, 1956 and 1938”) v/oro taken by the Council’s Sampling Officers for biological examination, 6 (or 1.7 %) j*. ... ion .ero reported to contain tubercle bacilli. In the previous year, the figur c wore 313 and 9 (2,9%) respectively. 1941. 1940. 54 81 10 28 , 4 5 40 48 36 35 18 48 49 76 ■ 4 ••5 1- - 1915,