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dealing almost exclusively with frozen meat
imported from the Colonies, where it was
slaughtered under the eye of a veterinary
surgeon, which should guarantee its soundness,
and at which the merest glance is
generally sufficient to determine its fitness or
otherwise for human food, and the daily work
of a Meat Inspector at the Central Markets,
who follows as closely as circumstances permit
the daily arrivals, examining them as to
their freedom from disease, absence of putrefaction,
and general soundness. The circumstances
are distinctly different. On the one
hand, the inspection is little more than a
promenade through lines of well nourished,
healthy animals, and none other would pay the
importer; on the other, every individual carcase
must be overlooked, and the character
and antecedents of the sender, some of whom
have an evil reputation, considered in doubtful
cases.
We therefore protest against the work of
Meat Inspectors being estimated by the law
of average. We might as well attempt to