The cattle plague and diseased meat, in their relations with the public health, and with the interests of agriculture : a letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., G.C.B. / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee.

  • Sampson Gamgee
Date:
1857
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Credit: The cattle plague and diseased meat, in their relations with the public health, and with the interests of agriculture : a letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., G.C.B. / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    any jurisdiction under the circumstances ; but he pressed me to continue my researches, with the certainty of their being of great public utility. A system of law cannot be regarded effective which permits the slaughtering of beasts exten- sively diseased, without control, in a public market, the property of a great city corporation, without holding the slaughterman accountable, and readily and efficaciously bringing him to justice if he offend so as to endanger the public health. The various Acts of Parliament regulating the sale of meat, do not appear to me to fulfil the intention of their framers and the public requirement, if they do not give to a magistrate other jurisdiction than his worship sitting in Clerkenwell believed he possessed, under the circumstances which I brought to his notice. Further observations of the law relating to the whole question may with convenience be ranged under two heads: Istly, as regulating the sale of meat; 2dly, in its application to the spread of con- tagious diseases amongst animals. A variety of Acts (11 and 12 Vict., cap. 61 Ixiii; 14 and 15 Vict., cap. 61 xii; 18 and 19 Vict. cap. 121 xxvi) empower inspectors of nuisances, clerks, and others duly appointed, to inspect slaughter houses, butchers' shops, and other buildings or places where dead meat is exposed or offered for sale ; and in the event of'^such meat appearing to the inspector unfit for human food, he may. seize it; and a Justice of
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