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animals have been slaughtered in the earlier
stages of the ailments they suffer from.
This difficulty applies with more force to
tuberculosis than most other diseases, since
we know that the materies morbi may be circumscribed
and localised to some extent before
the animal begins to waste, or there is much
change in the appearance of the meat when
prepared for market.
The remedy for this evil is the stricter and
more immediate connection between the
slaughter-house and the Market, and points to
the great superiority of the Continental system,
which insists upon a skilled surveillance over
every branch of the business.
Thus the points at which disease would
be indicated are not always available for the
assistance of the Inspector, who has in all
such cases the minimum on which to base
his judgment.
There is no comparison between the
work of a Sanitary Inspector at the docks,