Hygiene and public health / by B. Arthur Whitelegge.

  • Arthur Whitelegge
Date:
1894
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    the same may be true of tuberculosis, although it has been customary to pass for food carcases that present only incipient and local signs of tuberculosis (page 348). Boiling, roasting, or pickling affords but imperfect protection against the dangers attendant on the use of liesh of animals suffering from any of the above- mentioned diseases, or pleuro-pneumonia, foot-and- mouth disease, cattle plague, farcy, glanders, sheep- pox, rabies, septicaemia, pig-typlioid, or hog-cholera. Ballard and Klein have discovered in samples of bacon the specific microbe that gave rise to in- fectious pneumonia at Middlesborough, but whether these microbes are to be regarded as indicating diseased or only infected meat remains to be proved. The Welbeck disease is another transmissible malady, the symptoms of which (if any) in the pig during life are not known. Accident, parturition, or purely local diseases, such as apoplexy or intestinal obstruction, do not necessarily render a carcase unfit for food, provided that the animal has been slaughtered before any inflammatory or other constitutional mischief has occurred. The fiesh of over-driven animals is said to be injurious. Drugs, tartar emetic for example, ad- ministered to the animal before death may remain in the tissues, and cause ill effects in those eating the flesh. An animal that has died with the blood in it was presumably diseased, and it is customary to condemn such a carcase. The Welbeck Disease.'—At Welbeck, Notts, in JuneTT^S^', ''^ large number of persons were taken ill after eating some ham at a public luncheon. Ballard found that tliis was the only condition common to all the sufferers. The onset occurred in some cases suddenly, for the most part between twelve and thirty-six hours later. The symptoms included violent diarrhoea, vomiting, and abdominal pain, usually accompanied or followed by pyrexia, thirst,