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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    liead^ panting for breath at the rate of forty times per minute, emitting large volumes of hot vapour from the lungs; its eyes were fixed and staring in the lean and deepened sockets; in the arteries o£ the extremities the pulse had ceased to beat; and out of two large, ulcers the hinder eX' tremities of the hip-bones protruded through the > skin, which seemed artificially stretched over and bound down to a lifeless skeleton. From numerous inquiries in the market, I learned that such a state of things is by no means unfrequent. In reply to my inquiries, an official in the adminis- trative department made the following statement:— ■' It is notorious about diseased beasts in the mar- ket : never a market without them ; often beasts are disgraceful to look at,—certainly unfit for human food : could not say why the inspector did not seize them. I had several interviews with the Inspector of the market, Mr. Is ice, a veterinary surgeon, who with ,the greatest urbanity answered all inves- tigations ; the result of which was a conviction on my part that, although Mr. Nice appears to have performed a great public service by his inspection of the horse-market held .at Islington on Friday, ]ie has not exercised the control necessary for ex- cluding diseased beasts from the healthy cattle- inarket. It did not appear to me that the Inspec- tor's knowledge of the diseases of animals used as liuman food, is on a level with what is known of the