[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough.

  • Smethwick (Worcestershire, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (b; Other Foods. The articles of food which it has been found necessary to condemn for diseased or unsound conditions are sunnnarised in the table below. In all cases the food was surrendered and destroyed or was disposed of as to prevent its use for human food. The total weight of condemned material was 25 tons 2 cwts. 11 lbs. 7 ozs., compared with 3 tons 2qrs. 15 lbs. 10 ozs. in the previous year. The principal reasons for this year’s high figure were two consignments of Rye Jleal weighing 15 tons 2^cwts. which were in a state of fermentation due to damage by water and 5 tons of Pea Pickings, included under the heading vegetables in the table, which were attacked by grubs. TABLE IV. Meat Tons 1 Cwts. 0 Qrs. 1 Lbs. 2 Ozs 9 Fish — 12 3 5 2 Vegetables d 13 0 5 0 Fruit — 18 0 6 6 Fats — — 3 2 1 Canned Milk 1 2 1 17 2 Biscuits — — 2 16 0 Cheese — — 2 0 2 Flour — 1 3 5 0 Sugar — 6 0 19 4 Tea — 1 1 1 0 Sweets — — 3 4 11 Salt — 1 0 5 8 ,Vinegar Eggs — — — 11 ll> — — 17 d Rye Meal 15 2 — — — Miscellaneous ... — — 1 5 25 2 0 11 7 HOME REARED PICS SLAUGHTERED FOR HUiMAN CONSUMPTION ON PRIVATE PREMISES. The following table shows the number of pigs slaughtered and inspected, together with a statement as to the amount and nature of disease encountered in such pigs. TABLE V. Number of pigs killed . Numlx;r of pigs inspected . Number found diseased: — (a) All diseases except Tuberculosis: — (i) Whole carcase condemned . (ii) Carcases of which some part or organ was condemned (iii) Percentage of numlier affected with disease other than Tuberculosis . 118 118 3 6 7.64 (b) Tuberculosis only : — (i) Whole carcases condemned . (ii) Carcases of which some part or organ was condemned (iii) Percentage of number affected Avith luber- culosis