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The percentage affected with tuberculosis was 16, one entire
carcase and parts of 26 carcases being condemned on this account.
In addition 73 lbs. of beef were condemned on account of contamination
and bruising.
386 of the 2,425 pigs slaughtered were diseased in some respect,
more than one organ of the same animal frequently being affected.
The entire carcase in five cases was condemned on account of fevered
condition. Pneumonia was present in 50 cases, pleurisy in 14
and other lesions of the lung in 6, pericarditis in 24, lesions of
the liver 15 (parasitic disease 7, cirrhosis 6), and other lesions 9
(including bruising of 6). Tuberculosis was found in the entire
carcase of 6, in the mesenteric fat of 142, in the head of 108, in
the lungs of 53, in the liver of 51 and in the spleen of 3.
Of the 1,203 sheep slaughtered only 31 were found unsound
in any respect. The commonest abnormal states were parasitic
diseases affecting the liver of 16 and the lungs of 7. In addition
two carcases were condemned on account of enteritis with emaciation
and another because of emaciation and bruising.
Only 4 of the 250 calves were unsound, two being due to
tuberculosis lesions