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requires 250 skilled Inspectors, exclusive of
the 15 employed outside the Public Market, it
follows the Metropolis, with a population
of 4,411,710 [as shewn by the last census],
would require 657 Inspectors, the size of
London being 2.63 times larger than Berlin.
It is manifest, therefore, that with our existing
methods the five Officers on duty at Smithfield
cannot make a minute survey of every
carcase and piece of meat passing through
the Central Markets.
One great disadvantage with which our
Inspectors have to contend in distinguishing
between meat from diseased animals and
that which has become unwholesome from
commencing putrefaction, arises from the fact
that at our Central Markets they only see dead
meat, i.e., carcases quartered and dressed for
sale, from which all the viscera have been
removed, for although there are distinctive
characters pertaining to both conditions it is
sometimes very embarrassing to differentiate
the one from the other, and especially so when