[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council.
- Monmouthshire County Council
- Date:
- 1925
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![These fg,u«, when compared will, last jear’s, sJ,ow an ,.ven l.igher percent- age et nnsat.sfactM-y milks. There l, no ilonbt tl.at continnons examinations and re-examinations will be necessoiy to bring aho'Ut an improvement in the specimens and it 18 proposed during the coming year to intensify these investigations tor the pxu-pose of mnkmg' tliese analyses more numerous and continuous. In no instance were the bacilli of Diphtheria, Typhoid. Paratyphoid or Dysenteiy isolated, whilst with respect to the Bacillus Tuberculosis, this was dis- covOTed on five oct^sinns by means of the animal inoculation test. The farms implicated were visited by the County Sanitary Inspector, County Veterinaiw Inspector and officials of the Local Authority, and the diseased animals in each instance identified, removed from the herd, and dealt with satisfactorily. Of the ].82 tissues for sections, 68 are grouped as malignant growths; IT were cancers of the breast, 18 were carcinomata from other regions of the body, such as uterus, o,va.ry, intestine, etc.; 15 were epitheliomata from regions such as lips, oeso- phagus, skin, tonsil, etc.; 9 were sarcomata (round-celled and spindle-celled); one a mj eloma, and two melanotic sarcomata. In this group are also included one rodent nicer, two endotheliomata, one perithelioma, one hypernepliroma, and one ovarian teratoma. This class of specimen does not call for any particular comment. Under the heading of Miscellaneous ” are included spexfimens of:— Cerehro-Spinal Fluids, Fasces, Secretions frotn eye, Blood Cultures, Blood for Sugar content. Vomits and Gastric contents. Cystic and othei’ Fluids, etc. This group also includes experiments carried out on animals under 39 ond 40 Vic. Cap. 77, Certificates A3 and Bl, licence for which has been granted to me by the Home Secretary. The experiments consisted mostly of inoculations for the detection of B. Tuberculosis, and were reported to the Home Office on 31st Decem- ber, 1925,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28861450_0086.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
