[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley UDC 1896].

  • Wembley (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1897
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    business decided to close the factory, and only on rare occasions has work been done there, and then apparently only for a few hours for experimentation. MR. HAYNES’ IMPORTATION OF “ROUGH DUST ” INTO ALPERTON. Early in 1896 it was found that Mr. H. Haynes, of Alperton, was infringing an injunction obtained against him by the late Hendon Sanitary Authority in 1892, by importing what is known as rough dust into the middle of Alperton. Legal proceedings were instituted, and eventually the defendant undertook to cease the nuisance and to pay a penalty to the Council. Several Important Points in relation to Milk. I desire now to refer as briefly as possible to several points in relation to milk. It is well known that bacteria flourish and multiply abundantly in milk as we receive it, and that it may in a very short time con¬ tain as many as thirty millions of microbes per pint. It is now a generally accepted fact that the contagion of scarlatina, typhoid as well as consumption and tubercular affections generally are disseminated by milk. The sources of contamination, such as a diseased tuberculous udder, impure water, dirty milkers, &c., are not so common in country districts as those nearer town, but they cannot be altogether eliminated at the best kept farms. Gastric and intestinal disturbances, especially summer diarrhoea of infants, are undoubtedly very frequently due to the presence of certain fermenting organisms in milk which, favoured by the higher temperature of summer, multiply abundantly and elaborate products of a highly poisonous character. Now our death-rate is affected by tuberculosis in its most fatal form, viz., consumption—a disease which may be unquestionably started by drinking milk from an unsuspected tuberculous cow. It is positively stated by those high in authority in health matters and by eminent surgeons, that tuberculous glands of the neck, hip