[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, St Annes-on-the-Sea U.D.C.

  • St. Annes-on-the-Sea (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, St Annes-on-the-Sea U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE VETERINARY INSPECTOR. J. R. RIGBY, M.R.C.V.S. 2'0 the Chainnan and Members of the Urban District Councid St. Annes-on-thc-Sea. Gentlemen, I have the honour to present to you a Report on my work as Veterinary Inspector of Cattle, Cowsheds and Dairies during IQV- I have made quarterly inspections of all cattle on farms within your district, examining on an average about 330 cattle at each inspection. My examinations have been carried out with the object of detecting any departure from health in the cattle or defect in their management or surroundings likely to affect the purity of their milk. Where such conditions are m evidence the use of milk from the affected animal is suspended until there is no longer any fear of contamination; and at eacL inspection I have found it necessary to do this in a varying number of cases, cliielly on account of inflammatory affections of the milk gland. In the majority of such cases I And that the milk has already been withdrawal fiom use, but occasionally the changes in the milk are so slight, and the gland is so little altered in appearance, that the condition has not been observed previous to my visit. This is particularly