Report on the establishment of public abattoirs / by Charles A. Cameron.

  • Cameron, Charles A.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Report on the establishment of public abattoirs / by Charles A. Cameron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “The stomachs, intestines, &c., of 1,774 animals were also con- demned and buried. “ Of animals labouring under epizootic pleuro-pneumonia, epizootic aphtha (or foot and mouth disease), puerperal metritis, tuberculosis, &c., 322 have been discovered in the slaughter-houses; and of this number 81 carcases were so seriously affected as to necessitate their condemnation and burial. “In the dead-meat market, since the 1st February, 3,500 car. cases have been examined, and of this number 44 have been con- demned and buried. “ The system of inspection adopted and carried out has been that all carcases found in good condition were allowed at once to be taken away, while carcases considered by the assistant inspec- tors doubtful or suspicious were detained by them until I made my daily round of inspection, or until I could be communicated with. No carcases have been condemned or destroyed without careful examination and serious consideration of their condition. “ When this inspection was first commenced considerable oppo- sition was offered to the system by the butchers and cattle sales- men ; but I am glad that this apparent inclination to obstruct has considerably abated. “ That the condemnations, on the whole, were well considered may be inferred from the fact that, out of 401 carcases condemned by me as unfit for human food, and disposed of by burial, only six were the subjects of investigation before the police courts; and in these instances the courts sustained the decisions arrived at by my assistants and myself. “The percentage of animals labouring under other diseases than plague, and slaughtered in our slaughter-houses, has, within the last two months, been on the increase, but will not reach its maximum until the dairies are again filled up, so that the statistics I have adduced cannot be taken as the basis of a calculation repre- senting the percentage of diseased animals removed from the dairies and slaughtered on account of being diseased.