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seal; all putrid meat, as well as the meat of the
third class is confiscated and buried.
The milk of animals suffering from disease
especially from foot-and-mouth disease is forbidden
to be sold; and so also is milk showing
signs of containing pus.
All slaughtering must be carried on in the
public slaughter-houses; and it is forbidden to send
a slaughtered animal into the city without the
carcass being entire with the skin upon it and the
viscera in it, and it must be conveyed to the public
slaughter-house for inspection.
In all cases of infectious disease among cattle
the animals must be killed, and their carcasses
buried, and the waggons utensils, &c., used in
such cases must be thoroughly washed and disinfected.
BELGIUM (BRUSSELS).
It is forbidden to slaughter anywhere but in
the public slaughter-houses.
There is attached to every public slaughter-house
an inspector in chief, a veterinary surgeon, two