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after be the duty of the proper tax collector to give notice, either written or 

 verbal, to said owner that if lie fails to pay said tax, and also to comply 

 with the provisions of sections 1 and 3 of this act as to the collar and tag re- 

 quired to be worn, within ten days or to kill his dog himself within said time, 

 that said dog will thereupon be killed by the constable of the proper district. 



Section 5. In case of default by any such owner as to complying with the 

 requirements of such act, and particularly with section 4 as to payment of 

 tax, wearmg collar and tag, killing his said dog, it shall thereupon be the 

 duty of the tax collector of said district and shall be the right and privilege 

 of any citizen of the proper district, to notify the proper constable of the said 

 district of such failure and default, and that it thereupon becomes the duty 

 of such constable to kill said dog. And in either case, it shall thereupon be 

 the duty of such constable to kill all such dogs; and for such service said 

 constable shall be entitled to receive for each dog killed by him from the 

 county commissioners, out of the fund realized for the taxation of dogs, the 

 sum of fifty cents. 



Section 6. Everj- person keeping a dog or dogs about his house or premises, 

 permitting such dog or dogs to stay about his house or premises, shall be 

 taken and deemed to be the owner of such dog or dogs for all the purposes of 

 this act. 



Section 7. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be and the same 

 are hereby repealed. 



Approved — The first day of June A. D. 1907. 



EDWIN S. STUART. 



MEAT HYGITilNE. The meat hygiene service was commenced by the ap- 

 pointment of three agents of the State Livestock Sanitary Board who were 

 instructed to make a preliminary survey of the meat supplies of the State 

 for the purpose of gathering information that would be of use in formulating 

 plans for the formal inauguration of this new work. The three men selected 

 for this preliminary investigation were Dr. George B. Jobson, Franklin, Ve- 

 nango county; Dr. Otto G. Isoack, Reading, Berks county and Dr. T. E. Munce, 

 Washington, Washington county. 



It was learned as a result of this investigation, and otherwise, that approxi- 

 mately one-half of the meat supply of Pennsylvania is derived from arrimals 

 killed in slaughter houses located within the State. The other half of the 

 meat supply is derived from establishments located outside of Pennsylvania. 

 Under the Federal meat inspection law all animals killed in slaughter houses 

 engagid in interstate trade are under the inspection of agents of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture. This inspection consists in the ex- 

 amination of animals before they are killed and an examinatiorr at the time the 

 airiiuals art slaughtered and the carcasses dressed. By this rneans, diseased 

 animals are very easily discovered and they and their products may be, and are 

 eliminated from the meat supply. Establishments engaged in interstate trade 

 and under Federal meat inspection can be operated only when a Federal 

 meat inspector is actually present, so that all the animals killed and all of 

 the processes for preparing meat for market may be inspected and supervised. 

 This scrupulous oversight was found to be necessary on account of the dan- 

 gerous and disreputable practice of some establishiaients. All meats prepared in 

 establishments under Federal inspection are stamped in such a way as to de- 

 note that they have been inspected and passed by Federal authority. 



Part of the slaughter houses in Pennsylvania are engaged in interstate trade, 

 that is, they market some of their products outside of the State, and so they 

 come under Federal inspection. The number of such establishments under 

 Federal inspection in Pennsylvania is as follows: Allentown, 1; Chester, 3; 

 Harrisburg, 6; Norristown, 2; Philadelphia, 36; Pittsburg, 6; Pottsville, 2; 

 Saegertown, 1; Scranton, 1. 



The total number of slaughter houses in Philadelphia is 157. There are ap- 

 proximately 100 slaughif-r houses in Pittsburg, and every county in the State 

 has a number of local establishments supplying local trade. These local es- 

 tablishments whose market is entirely within the State of Pennsylvania are 

 not engaged in interstate trade and, therefore, cannot be regulated by Con- 

 gress, and do not fall under the supervision of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture. 



A few cities carry a certain limited amount of rneat inspection. In Philadel- 

 phia, for example, there are five city inspectors to supervise 142 local slaugh- 

 ter houses, while there .are 15 slaugher houses engaged in interstate trade and 

 under Federal inspection, need thirty-five men to conduct the kind of inspec- 

 tion that Coirgress has repuirod. In Pittsburg there is one city meat inspec- 

 tor*; and in other cities health officers or food inspectors do a little meat in- 

 spection work. Outside of the few municipalities that have made provision 

 for this sort of work, there is no systematic meat hygiene service excepting that 

 under the direction of the State. 



LIVESTOCK SANITARY BOARD. It is clear that the field of work for 

 this Board is large. Some of the local slaughter houses are in very Irad condi- 

 tion. It has been the practice all over the State, in the rural districts, to 

 feed hogs on slaughter house offal. This is objectionable because it turns the 



