[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council.

  • Northamptonshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A comparative table is given showing the number of samples taken, the number reported against and the results of prosecutions for the last 4 years. - Samples Samples reported against. Amount of fines Year. submitted for Number. Percentage. and costs analysis. in prosecutions. 1938 579 75 12.9 £13 13 6 1939 573 62 10.8 £24 3 0 1940 561 65 11.6 £107 9 6 1941 565 81 14.3 £296 16 3 The work during the year has been exceptional and it is hoped that the action will result in future reports not containing so many evidences of the greed of certain people who are willing to exploit the general food position at the expense of the public. Milk in Schools. The results of the testing of 104 samples of milk supplied to schools within the County were very satisfactory. Following up formal samples were needed to be taken in six doubtful cases, in all of which the milk was found to be genuine. The average fat content of the school milk samples was 3.74 per cent., compared with 3.70 per cent, for the milk samples taken in the ordi¬ nary course of sampling. Tuberculous Milk—Veterinary investigation. Only one case was reported. It related to a sample of milk taken in the City of Birmingham from a supply produced at Upper Boddington, and which, on examination, had been found to be tubercle-infected. A veterinary inspection was made at the farm and two individual samples of milk and two group samples involving nine cows were taken for biological examination ; the samples were all certified non-tuberculous. Two further individual samples were later taken from cows which were dry at the time of the first clinical examination, but which may possibly have been in milk when the Birmingham sample was taken ; these samples were also certified non-tuberculous.