[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1955
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    31/54 (page 27)
    Carcases round to be Uneit eok Food. (B = bovine, P = pigs, S=sheep, C = calves). B P S C Tuberculosis ... 11 9 — 1 Pyrexia — 8 1 1 Emaciation, oedema and septiemmia 1 11 6 1 Septicremia associated witli moribund foetus 1 — — Moribund animals 3 — — Malignant tumours — 2 — — Generalised cysticercus bovis 1 — — — Johne’s disease 1 — — — Immaturity ... — — — 7 Parts of carcases and offal found to be unfit on account of : — Tuberculosis Distoinatosis ... Cirrhosis Abscesses Pneumonia, pleurisy and peritonitis Actinomycosis ... Cysticercus bovis Parasitic other than C. bovis 19,187 lbs. 12,041 lbs. 0,998 lbs. 2,117 lbs. 7,842 lbs. 989 lbs. 1,098 lbs. 74 lbs. Miscellaneous conditions: — Cavernous angioma, oedema and bruis- ing 15.0:14 lbs. The total weight of diseased and unsound meat and offal dis- covered during meat ins]>ection duty in the Abattoir was 79.()oO lbs. I A detailed examination of every Imvine carcase was made to discover the presence of cvsticeixms bovis which is the lanal ij’batc of the tapeworm Taenia saginate found in man. One generahsed