[Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Ellesmere Port U.D.C.

  • Ellesmere Port (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1939
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Credit: [Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Ellesmere Port U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Inspection end Suporvirion of Foo4, (r,) Milk bupply: There arc 36 registered cowkeopers, 8 nilk purveyors end 13. nilk chops in the district# In addition, 17 nilk purveyore bring nilk into the district from outside, and there are 3 registered wholesalers resident outside the diftrict# The register gives the following entrics:- Cowkeopers (wholesale producers) 26 Cowkeopers (Retail producers) ' 10 Hilk Purv ey o r s 19 Total, registered nilk dealers in the District 55 Wholesalers resident outside the district 3 Retailers distributing nilk into the district from outside 15 Total number of Milk Dealers on the Registers# 73 Eleven camples of nilk wore obtained and sent to the bacteriologist for examination# Three were tuberculous# Copies of the reports wore submitted to the County Medical Officer of Health, and Veterinary action was taken with the result that three cows were slaughtered under the Tuberculosis Order of.1938# All the farms end Dairies in the district have been inspected end a good standard of hygienic conditions have been maintained# . Twenty-coven of the cowkocpers arc on the Accredited roll«._ (b) Meet aril Other Foods#- 579 visits were paid to the public .. abattoirs and 141 to the -private slaughter-house, f or the purpose of inspection whilst slaughtering ms in progress# 375 visits were made to shops end # market stalls where various food-stuffs were offered for calc# The following table shows the number of cereas0s inspected at the slaughter-houses; also the number of whole carcases, portions of carcases and organs rejected on account of their unfitness for human consumption, giving a total weight of 8 tons, 13 cwts# end 94 lbs# Cattle Sheep - . ■excluding- end Clowe# Cows#CeD.ves# Lambs# Pirns# ITumbor ki 1 led 7 . 7 Y Y Y #. r ~r ~ 9'i6 9 $ 6'5~ ‘ 4579 J/ll Humber inspected •••••• 9lS 98 65 4579 17H* All discenes except ’Tuberculosis# Whole careen os rejected Y Y Carcases of which some pert or organ was rejected • • Percentage of-the number inspected affected With disoe.se other then tuberculosis • • • « • • • Tuberculosis only. Whole carcases rejected • • • Carcases of which some pert or organ was rejected • • • Percentage of the number inspected effected with tuberculosis # 1 1 2 63 10 - 39 64 6.87$ 10.2 <jo 1.53$ 0.87^ 3.85# ■f V 12 - 3 ~ 3 128 , 46 - 171 15*39# 50^ •—# v - 10 0 1655 -17-/