[Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.
- Cambridgeshire (England). County Council
- Date:
- 1936
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![GO ])asteuri!<ation of tlic milk before it is put on sale. Not only would the last inetliod achieve the object mentioned, but, if properly performed, it would also prevent the sjn-ead of disease introduced into the milk from human sources, of which the devastating epidemic of typhoid fever at Bourne- mouth in the late summer of 193G is the most outstanding recent example. In the report for 1935, some figures were published showing how alarmingly the pro])ortion of tuberculous samples to samples examined in the Borough of Cambridge had increased of recent years and these figures are repeated here with the addition for those for the year 1936. Year. No. of Sain pies. Percent, positive. 1932 45 4.4 1933 42 7.1 1934 40 12.5 1935 83 15.6 193G 85 12.9 Although the figure for 1936 suggests that the rapid rise in the incidence of positive samples is not going to continue, in that a definite fall has occurred in comparison with the figure of the previous year, the proportion is still higher than that of the vear 1934 and is the second highest since the vear 1927 when the figures were first recorded. UNSOUND FOOD. The inspection of slaughterhouses and other premises for unsound food is the duty of local sanitary authorities. * In the Borough of Cambridge 129 parts of bovine animals and 180 parts of swine were condemned on account of tuberculosis, and 70 parts of bovine animals and 35 parts of swine for conditions other than tuberculosis. One whole carcase of a moribund sheep was condemned](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2908944x_0074.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
