[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough.

  • Chorley (England). Borough Council
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I hope within a reasonable time to be able to report to yon that all the Milk supplied to the inhabitants of Chorley comes from cows kept in well-lighted, ventilated, and properly drained Cowsheds, but as there are a large number of farm buildings not in a thoroughly satisfactory condition, the alterations necessary will take considerable time to be completed without inflicting too great burdens on the owners and occupiers of these farms. I am glad to say, however, that these improvements are going steadily on. I would like to have been able to state that all the farmers sufficiently appreciated the necessity of personal cleanliness when milking cows, and also the necessity of cleaning the udders of the cows at milking- time. I have in many instances impressed upon Cowkeepers the liability of contamination of the milk, if milking is done with unwashed and dirty hands, or with the udders of the cow uncleaned and foul. Generally as regards the cleanliness of the vessels used for taking out the milk, I can speak very favourably. Slaughter House.-—The consideration of the alteration and improvement of the Public Slaughter House was, at the Council Meeting in January, postponed. I think that this subject ought to receive your attention without any further delay. As I stated in my Annual Report for 1906, the Slaughter House is not up to the standard of present-day requirements, there being no place for hanging the meat separate from the killing rooms, with the consequent risk of contamination from the blood and offal of other animals—sometimes diseased, and pigs are from want of room sometimes kept in the Cattle Pens close to the Slaughter House. The walls and floors of the Slaughter House are not so constructed that they can be effectually and thoroughly cleaned. I recommend that the last plan brought before your notice by the Inspector should be again considered by you and adopted. According to this plan, the central slaugher house would be made into pens for cattle, the two rooms on each side into slaughtering rooms, and the two outside into cooling and hanging rooms. The walls would be cemented to the height of eight feet from the ground, and the floors concreted, so that the walls and floors could be kept clean and in a sanitary condition. Also there would be constructed a separate place for the offal of the slaughtered cattle. [16]