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Hippocrates, and all the special pleading of
graziers, butchers, and their abettors cannot,
and should not, prevail against the practical and
wide experience of officials whose plain duty is
to protect the public from the consequences of
eating meat charged with pathogenic microbes,
irrespective of the pecuniary losses to those
whose goods are sacrificed.
The question of compensation to innocent
dealers is one that should command universal
sympathy, but it forms no justification for laxity
in the discharge of their duty on the part of the
meat inspectors.
It should be remembered that in the Central
Market we only see dead meat in which every
vestige of the morbid products of disease is
frequently carefully and cunningly removed by
unscrupulous consignors, and, therefore, we are
driven to adopt a high standard of excellence
in determining whether meat of a suspicious
character should be sold for human consumption.