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and the superintendent of sanitary inspection, and
the superintendent of markets, whose officers regularly
visit and inspect all slaughter-houses, meat
shops, butchers' shops, poultry and fish stands,
stores, or other places kept for the sale, or exposure
for sale, of any kind of meat, poultry, fish, or any
articles of provision or food, in any place in the
city; and they seize and remove any and all unsound,
unhealthy, putrid, or unwholesome, veal, beef, pork,
fish, poultry, or other article of food; and take all
measures for the detection and prevention of the
sale of all such unsound, unwholesome articles of
food, and secure a strict enforcement of the laws and
ordinances relative thereto; and they make full
reports of the same to the superintendent.
There are also regulations for the cleansing of
the markets and slaughter-houses, and for the
removal of blood, offal, and garbage from the
latter directly after slaughtering, and for the disposal
of all such matters, as well as diseased and
unwholesome food by the city contractor. The
violation of any of these regulations is punished by
heavy penalties.
It would seem, therefore, that in almost every
part of the world the regulations for the sale of
meat, the inspection of cattle, and the management