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"I have the honour to be, &c.,
"JOHN WHITMORE, M.D., Medical Officer of l' h
H a e t ,
St. Marylebone."
The Rev. E. J. PHrrrs EYRE, Rector of Maryle-
bone, moved a resolution that the report of the
Medical Officer of Health be received and adopted,
and a copy forwarded to the Secretary of State, and
that he be informed of the strong feeling of the
vestry that some immediate and strong measures
should be exercised by the Government with regard
to the importation of foreign cattle. The rev. gen-
tleman remarked that this was a most important
question, affecting not only the health but even the
lives of the community, more especially the juvenile
branches of our population, who were so greatly de-
pendent on milk as a nutritious diet. The very
valuable report which had been presented from their
medical officer of health was sufficient to awaken
the sympathy of every one who had the wellbeing
of his fellow-creatures at heart ; and, as it was an
almost established fact that the evils of which they
complained had arisen from the wholesale and in-
discriminate importation of foreign cattle, he had
but little doubt that when the attention of the Sec-
retary of State was drawn to it he would be found
fully alive to the importance of the subject. (Hear.)

Dr. BACHHOFFNER seconded the resolution, which
was at once put and carried unanimously, and
directed to be forwarded, with the report, to the
Secretary of State for the Home department.
Some other business concluded the sittings of the
Board prior to the vacation.

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of any pulmonary affection. From all th+
abled to gather, I am strongly of opinion
has been brought to England by foreign , • for gi
no single instance have I found the disease to exi _thesT
cowhouses the proprietors of which have carefully avoided
replenishing their stock from the London markets. A very
important subject for consideration presents itself, and one
in which I, as medical officer of health to this large parish,
am especially concerned—it is the extent to which this dis-
ease may affect the condition or supply of one of the most
nutritive and important of all human ailments—viz., milk.
In this, as in most other complaints to which cows are
liable, a very early symptom is the drying up of the secret-
ing vessels or organs which supply the milk. If, therefore,
during the period of incubation of the disease, or before
any symptoms present themselves, the constituent proper-
ties of the milk undergo no change, there will then, I ap-
prehend, be no great cause for anxiety, but the subject is
one which demands and will no doubt receive the imme-
diate attention of those who are best informed and are
most competent to investigate it. I have made careful in-
quiries whether any of those persons who attended upon
the diseased cows had been in any way affected, but no
single instance of the kind has at present come to my
knowledge. With regard to the sanitary condition of the
cowhouses in the parish, while entertaining as I do the
opinion that these places in the midst of a crowded popu-
lation are great abominations and ought to be removed
from among the dwellings of men, I must, nevertheless,
admit that a large majority of them are kept exceedingly
clean and well ventilated, and carry out to the fullest ex-
tent all the requirements of the act. The propriet'ors for
the most part appear to be fully; alive to the importance of
sanitary regulations, :the manure is removed, the flooring ,
or pavement of the sheds carefully washed-two or three
times a day, and the cows in many of them are daily
brushed and cleaned. In many sheds, also, I found that
3PDougall's disinfecting powder and chloride of lime are
constantly used. In many sheds, I regret to say, I found
a great want of sanitary regulations ; and when this was
the case, the cows generally looked poor and out of health.
The crowded state of some of t hem, and their close proxi- •
mity to densely-populated courts and alleys, will compel
me, when the proper time arrives, to oppose the renewal of
their licenses.