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during the killing or dressing of an animal, any
signs of disease, he must give immediate information
to one of the inspectors; and whenever he
finds a foetus in the animal, he is also to give notice
to the inspector, who buries it; for it is forbidden
to sell or appropriate a fœtus for food, the skin
only being given up to the owner.
There are also regulations as to the time of killing,
the mode of scalding pigs, of dressing the tripe,
melting the fat, removing the offal, &c. &c.
And, with regard to the management of the
cattle market, it is ordered that before the opening
of the market the animals shall be examined by
the veterinary surgeon attached to the abattoir.
In those cases where the veterinary surgeon
considers the animal so diseased that it should be
killed, and there is no opposition on the part of
the owner, it is killed immediately; but where the
owner contests the opinion of the surgeon, he can
claim the intervention of the veterinary surgeon of
his own selection. If the two surgeons are of a
different opinion, a third is called in—the inspector
in chief, who decides definitively. The cost of
these examinations is to be borne by the party in
the wrong.
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