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the district, do everything to prevent diseased meat being sold
for the food of man.
TUBERCULOUS MEAT.
Early in the year I instituted a prosecution against a butcher,
who owns a slaughter-house, and a pig-dealer, for whom the former
did the killing, for having on the premises the carcases of three pigs
affected with Tuberculosis prepared for the food of man. Each of
these men was fined—the one £20 and the other £10. The result
of the prosecution has been that the slaughter-house, which for years
has done a very large business in the killing and dressing of pigs,
is now never used for the purpose at all. The pig-dealer now does
all his killing in another district! The slaughter-house in question
is one held under an old permanent license, and we have no power
to close it until we obtain two convictions against the owner.
The owner of another slaughter-house, which is attached to
a dairy in which sausage-making is carried out, subsequent to our
discovering on his premises the carcase of a large pig which shewed
tuberculous lesions, has almost given up pig-killing on the premises.
The carcase in question was given up to and destroyed by us. He
also getting his pigs killed out of the district !
During Christmas week the carcases of three large fat pigs
were confiscated and destroyed on account of exhibiting tuberculous
lesions.
One of these carcases was particularly notable from the fact
that during life it had taken, in conjunction with its fellow (which