[Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Carlisle City.

  • Carlisle (England). City Council.
Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Carlisle City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The condemned property embraces the whole o£ Whippery Lane, Rickergate; one liouse in Queen Street; six houses in Rigg Street; houses from No. 9 Broadguards to Artizans’ Dwellings; the whole of the dwellings in Back Broadguards and The Fleet; and three houses, comprising about twenty rooms, in Bridge Lane, Caldewgate. The owners of the Whippery Lane property have received notices to put the property into habitable con- dition by carrying out work according to the specifications of the City Surveyor, although it is difficult to see how any radical alteration short of demolition will render this class of property sanitary. The insanitary property in Caldewgate is at present under the consideration of the Health Committee. EXAMINATION OF MEAT. During the year I have been called to examine the carcases of 24 animals as compared with 26 last year; 16 of the carcases were pronounced unfit for human food; II of the carcases were affected with tuberculosis. The Report of the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis appointed in July, 1890, was presented to Parliament in April of the past year. One of the conclusions of the Com- mission with regard to tuberculous meat is eminently unsatisfactory from the point of view of a Medical Officer of Health or a Sanitary Inspector who is responsible for the examination of meat intended for human food. The Report, while it points out that the tubercular virus is so infective that it may be carried by means of the butcher’s knife from a diseased carcase to a healthy one, yet suggests there is “ no objection to the sale of meat substances from carcases which have shown only localised tuberculosis, and from which every partilce of tubercle has been skilfully removed ; pro- vided always that in every subsequent process of preparing