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"exportation of diseased meat be permitted, it may be found necessary to
"make a minute detailed examination of every carcass on arrival in this
"country.
"As you perhaps know, on arrival of the meat here it is at once
" carried away and sold, and such minute examination would necessitate
" delay.
"I have to request that this letter may receive careful consideration,
"and that I may be favoured with a reply thereto, which may be placed
"before the Port of London Sanitary Committee at their next meeting
"on the 5th December next.
"I am, Sir,
"Your obedient Servant,
"HERBERT WILLIAMS,
"The Consul-General for Belgium, " Medical Officer of Health,
"29 Great St. Helen's, E.C." "Port of London."
"29, Great St. Helen's,
"London, E.C.,
"20th November, 1905.
"Sir,
"In reply to your communication of the 16th instant, I beg to inform
"you that I have forwarded a copy of it to the Belgian Government,
"whose reply I will communicate to you as soon as I receive it.
"I am, Sir,
"Your obedient Servant,
"The Medical Officer of Health, "Consul-General for Belgium.
" Port of London,
"King William Street, Greenwich, S.E."
The examination of carcasses of animals enclosed in boxes and crates cannot
be carried out on shipboard without considerable delay. Although this may
become necessary, I think it advisable that the country of exportation should
have the opportunity of so rigorously inspecting the meat before it is
exported—that such meat can be allowed to land with the confidence that
none of it is diseased or unfit for food.