Report upon ice-creams / by Allan MacFadyen, M.D., Lecturer on bacteriology, British Institute of Preventive Medicine, and J. Kear Colwell, F.I.C., F.C.S.

  • Macfayden, Allan, 1860-1907
Date:
[approximately 1900?]
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Credit: Report upon ice-creams / by Allan MacFadyen, M.D., Lecturer on bacteriology, British Institute of Preventive Medicine, and J. Kear Colwell, F.I.C., F.C.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Report upon Ice-creams BY ALLAN MACFADYEN, M.D., Lecturer on Bacteriology, British Institute of Preventive Medicine, AND J. REAR COLWELL, F.I.C., F.C.S. For some time past we have been engaged in examining samples of ice-creams from various districts of London. The samples were obtained either from shops or from street barrows. The number of ice-creams vended and consumed on the streets is enormous. It is a familiar sight to see the barrows surrounded by children greedily consuming these “ delicacies.” Young children are particularly liable to affections and disturbances of the digestive tract. And there are few in the poorer districts of London who do not at some time or other purchase and consume these ice-creams. The ice-creams are hawked about without any control on the part of the Sanitary Authorities. Their prepara¬ tion and sale are mainly carried out by the poorest members of the Italian colony in London, amidst an utter absence of cleanli¬ ness in their persons and surroundings. The condition of these ice-creams has an important bearing on the health of the com¬ munity as the sources of possible contamination are so numerous. We were, therefore, led to devote some time to a careful examination of these commodities, and the results will be shortly
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