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 ... / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
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 ... / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    98 iki ^nsuj^enii mspeciion- of slaugMer-houses emjiic dead-meat markets. .j Qfir. Monday thej Mth imtanMj I inspected one of the slaughter houses at the Ne'ss^i Islington Cattle Market. In ifeil .'ftW: five c^rjro cases, three of oxen^ two of sheep. One of th@[i latter was of magnificent shape and condition^t §i9>[ far as fat was concerned, but the whole carcase had a uniform dusky red colour, evidently the results of general infiltration with bloody serosity. The?/ carcase having been trimmed and completel)fo dressed for the butcher, I had no means of inspectyT ing 1 the viscera. Two of the oxen were mucljfj emaciated,, and had apparently died from typhusn or typhoid fever; they presented numerous bloodyij extravasations in the subcutaneous, inter-musculariJj and suh^pleural cellular tissues. I should hayi^i required to ^ee the viscera, in order to . state acm curately the nature of the disease, but they had^s been removed;II : ,The third ox was large, morjj derately fat; pleuro-pneumonic. I carried away,! the lungs of this beast; they were infiltrated with^ solidified plastic matter in almost their whole exrp tent; so that, whereas their average weight should] have been about eight pounds, it was twenty-sevenfi pounds. The disease was in its acute stage. Although the carcase had been very skilfully trim- med and dressed, the flesh in the walls of the chest and abdomen bore unmistakeable marks of disease. The slaughterman stated that these car- cases would be conveyed to the city markets, where