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veterinary surgeon, who inspects the cattle sent
there for sale.
In Berlin, as in the whole of Prussia, there
exists what are called slaughterers' districts, where
there is a slaughterer appointed to seize and
destroy all animals in a diseased condition. The
skin of these animals is the perquisite of the
slaughterer, and the other parts are buried. If the
owner of a diseased animal gives notice to the
slaughterer that he wishes to have the animal
slaughtered, and to keep the skin, he gives the
slaughterer compensation.
All the results of inspection and slaughtering
are properly entered in a book, and no meat can
be sold except by persons who are licensed to deal
in it.
SWITZERLAND (BERNE).
All slaughtering must take place in the public
slaughter-houses or in licensed places.
Cases of urgency excepted, it is not allowed to
kill an animal until the appointed inspector has
examined it; and, in case of accident, when the
animal must be immediately killed, and before the
inspector can come to see it, the slaughtering must