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The Inspectors of Meat and Slaughter-houses
in the City of London are recruited exclusively
from men who have had experience as butchers,
and are well acquainted with the slaughtering
of animals in its various phases. When a
vacancy occurs no candidate for appointment
is presented to the Committee of Selection who
has not previously passed a satisfactory examination
before me, showing that he
possesses at least a rudimentary knowledge of
the more ordinary diseases of animals used for
the food of man, and the common appearances
of wholesome and sound meat, as distinguished
from those produced by disease during life,
and after slaughtering.
It is thought desirable to mention this
because in some districts the inspection of
Meat and Slaughter-houses is tacked on to
the general duties of the Sanitary Inspectors,
who, however well qualified they may be in
the routine work of general sanitary organisation,
have had but little knowledge of meat or
market requirements.
This anomaly has been alluded to in and