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out of Parliament, and formed a special subject
of enquiry by the Royal Commission during
their sittings last year; it would be well,
therefore, that the City of London should be
exempt from all reproach in the matter.
Officers qualified as described on the preceding
page soon acquire a facility in conducting
their business by which they can cover
more ground in a given time than men of less
technical training, and the same advantage
enables them to defeat the machinations of the
dishonest butcher who sends to London meat he
dare not sell in his own neighbourhood, resorting
to all kinds of tricks to conceal the evidences
of disease in the beast he wants to dispose of:
such as pleural adhesions — pelvic lesions—
morbid products, etc., etc., which are carefully
cut away with a knife, the new surfaces rubbed
over with suet, and then well smothered with
wheaten flour to hide, as he hopes, morbid
appearances, a delusion which sometimes lands
him in Holloway Gaol.
The experienced and well-trained Inspector
finds defects where the ordinary observer would