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The responsibility involved in the fearless and
faithful performance of a disagreeable and sometimes
invidious duty cannot be over-estimated,
and I claim for your officers that they are never
unmindful or indifferent to the obligations cast
upon them.
Unfortunately, there is a tendency on the part
of interested persons to dispute the conclusions
arrived at with respect to the sale of meat from
a tuberculous animal that may have been
slaughtered before the general mass of muscular
tissue has become involved, and looks fresh, and,
to an uneducated eye, wholesome ; but these
objections have no place in my mind, although
one regrets to observe from time to time an
opposition on the part of offenders of the nature
of an appeal from the judgment of Medical
Officers of Health to a class of men whose
professional training applies more to quadrupeds
than to bipeds, and whose interference savours
somewhat of presumption.
The question of allowing meat to be sold in
the City Markets from an animal in any portion