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The Queensland Government are evidently
quite alive to the importance of dealing with
meat not necessarily diseased, but of low quality.
In the Live Stock and Meat Export Act of
1895, 59 Vic., No. 26, being an Act to provide
for the inspection of "Live Stock and Meat
intended for Export," the 3rd Clause defines
"disease," as, inter alia, any defect or inferiority
in the condition of any meat which, in the opinion
of the Inspector examining the same, renders it
unfit for the food of man.
My instructions to the Inspectors are, that the
utmost caution must be exercised in dealing with
this sort of meat, as it is chiefly bought by coster
butchers and sold to the poorest classes of the
community in the public streets, mostly at night
time, when the inferior quality of the meat is not
easily recognised.
The Agent-General for Queensland, believing
these sheep ought not to have been shipped, sent
several persons to examine them, including one
veterinary who holds an official position of