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food, it rests with the inspector or veterinary surgeon
to decide whether it shall be wholly destroyed, or
whether certain parts of it, as the fat, skin, and
bones, can be used for technical purposes.
In all cases of difficulty or dispute, the subinspectors
refer the matter to the veterinary surgeon,
who decides definitively.
The sub-inspectors have also the duty of looking
after the condition of the markets and public
slaughter-houses.
PRUSSIA (BERLIN).
In every market, whether for the sale of cattle
or meat, there is a police official, charged with the
direction of the market in all matters relating to
the sale of sound meat or cattle. The stall where
the officer is to be found is distinguished by a flag.
It is the duty of this official to examine everything
in the market for sale as food, and to seize
and confiscate all unsound food; and to report
the offender to the police agents, who summon
him before the magistrates to answer to the charge
against him.
At every cattle market there is an experienced