Cattle diseases : their cause and cure / by Fred Feild Whitehurst.

  • Whitehurst, Frederick Feild.
Date:
1875
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cattle diseases : their cause and cure / by Fred Feild Whitehurst. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    It is asked that the existing Act should he amended. The first object is “the prevention of disease hy slaughtering, or placing under quarantine, all imported i animals at the port of deharcation.” This, in fact, means a rise in the price of meat beyond all question, I, as a consumer, object to such stringent regulations. We cannot do without the foreign supply, and instead of issuing a series of restrictive orders, let us see if we ! cannot, whilst insuring immunity from contagious | diseases, yet encourage by all possible means an { increased supply, rather than cause a diminished trade, | which must follow on the adoption of still more severe | measures. | Some years ago I visited all the markets and abattoirs || in Paris, Boulogne, &c. A plan was prepared for j abattoirs, with a farm of some two or three hundred ; | acres, on the banks of the Thames, within twenty j ' minutes by rail from the City. Here it was proposed to | ‘ land the foreign cattle; resting and feeding them, as done in Paris, and slaughtering them as required, j ^ Thus the foreigner could protect himself, and control j the sale at his will. To ask that the cattle should be slaughtered at once, | ^ whatever the state of the market may be, is simply to j i. limit our supply of what we so much need. An application was then made for a charter to ^ establish these abattoirs with the necessary w’-orks for the , disposal of the offal, skins, &c., in the Essex marshes, far away from all habitations. i The proposal was submitted through the late Sir : I i :1