Text-book of meat hygiene : with special consideration to ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection of food-producing animals / by Medical counsellor Richard Edelmann ... with 157 illustrations and 8 colored plates. Authorized translation, with additions, by John R. Mohler ... and Adolph Eichhorn.

  • Edelmann, Richard (Richard Heinrich), 1861-
Date:
1908
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Credit: Text-book of meat hygiene : with special consideration to ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection of food-producing animals / by Medical counsellor Richard Edelmann ... with 157 illustrations and 8 colored plates. Authorized translation, with additions, by John R. Mohler ... and Adolph Eichhorn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    io divisions for the different species of animals should be required. Only suckling calves are allowed to be loaded together with their mothers. The disadvantages and dangers of railroad transportation of food animals depend on various conditions. It is greater for fat animals than for lean ones. The closer they are loaded, the warmer the temperature, the longer the transpor- tation lasts, and the less suitably the cars are arranged, the greater are the disad- vantages Hogs suffer comparatively the most, and deaths from suffocation and paralysis of the heart are not infrequent. Cattle are oftentimes greatly affected by the frequent switching of the cars. They may be thrown down and are then stepped upon by others, and may die as a result of the injuries, or even from suffocation. , A peculiar disease is sometimes observed in cattle as a result of railroad trans- portation, and is designated as railroad sickness. This affection manifests itself as a severe nervous disorder, which, in a well-developed^sjate^joes not appear unlike parturient_anopIexv. The termination of the disease is mostly unfavorable, which makes early slaughter of the affected cattle advisable. The transportation of food animals by boat comes principally into consideration in importations from across the sea, and foi this serv specially equipped steamers are employed. The loading and unloading of the animals are accompanied sometimes with considerable difficulties, while the transportation itself, if the weather is not stormy, is not fol- lowed by any more marked disadvantages than railroad transportation. In regard to the sheltering of the animals on boats, everything said in relation to railroad transportation may be applied heie. _ The transportation of horses by boat is described by Horauf in a highly instructive article in the Berl. Thierarzt. Wochensch., No. 40, I9°6- Concerning the above-mentioned period of rest before slaughter this should be required for animals transported by wagon or boat, and it should be extended accordance with the condition of the animals. Generally the time will be con- siderably shorter than in animals transported afoot. -v.,. It is readily understood that food animals lose more or less of their ^ as a result of all kinds of transportation. It is impossible, however, to establ h definite figures relative to that loss, on account of the great di eiences in and the conditions of transportation. rin the United States the transportation of animals is governed by a decree (Public No. 340), enacted by Congress of the Un.ted States, and approved June 29, 1906.] C. importation ol Food Animals from Foreign Countries The importation of food animals from foreign countries into the territories of the German Empire is regulated by decreesUrom he , - rial Chancellor as well as by the government of the ahred stat. • On account of the changes in the stand,,,g of contagious d,s«se.^ animals in the states from which importations are made.