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Slaughter Houses.—These now Dumber 29, and to these I have
paid 348 visits always on slaughtering days. Periodical limewhiting,
as required by the bye-laws, has been duly carried out, and I had to
caution a slaughterman on one occasion for allowing blood to enter
the drain. During the course of my visits I have examined the
carcases of 144 oxen and heifers, 1,363 sheep, 10 calves, and 6 pigs.
The following organs and parts I found diseased and had destroyed
as unfit for human food:—
OXEN.
1 liver and skirt
6 livers
1 pair lungs
1 fore quarter, lungs, liver
and head
affected with Abscess.
,, ,, Distomatosis.
„ ,, Tuberculosis.
,, „ Ditto.
SHEEP.
21vers
1 liver
1 heart and lungs
1 liver, heart and lungs
2 livers
1 liver and lungs
Whole carcase and organs
Whole carcase and organs
affected with Distomatosis.
„ ,, Abscess.
,, ,, Inflammation.
„ ,, Melanosis.
,, ,, Parasitic Cysts.
„ ,, Ditto.
„ ,, Pleurisy & Peritonitis.
,, ,, Pneumonia and in a
dying condition when bled
Special Inspections and Unsound Food.—On your instructions
I have made special enquiries and inspections on 50 occasions into
various matters connected with the sale of food and complaints of
various kinds, in addition to which I have always been on the watch
when passing through the market thoroughfares in different parts of