GOVERmiENTAL INSPECTION 191 



bacilli into the systemic circulation. Carcasses 

 revealing lesions more severe or more numerous 

 may be rendered into lard or tallow if the distribu- 

 tion is such that the tuberculous lesions can be 

 removed. 



Hog cholera or sivine plague. Carcasses of hogs 

 marked as suspicious in antemortem examination 

 must be carefully examined post mortem, and if 

 found afflicted with acute hog cholera or with 

 swine plague they must be condemned. But if 

 the carcass shows no indications of either of these 

 diseases except in the kidneys or Ijmiph glands it 

 may be passed for food. If it shows lesions slight 

 in extent in other organs it may be passed for 

 sterilization. 



Actinomycosis. Carcasses showing general ac- 

 tinomycosis must be condemned. Those well nour- 

 ished, and showing uncomplicated localized acti- 

 nomycosis may be passed after removal of diseased 

 parts. Heads so affected must be condemned ex- 

 cept perhaps in cases where the lesion is slight, 

 and strictly localized. 



General Diseases. Carcasses must be con- 

 demned for the following diseases or conditions : 



Blackleg, Hemorraghic septicemia. Pyemia, 

 Septicemia, Texas fever. Malignant epizootic 

 catarrh. Unhealed vaccine lesions, Parasitic ictero- 

 hematuria in sheep. Generalized melanosis, Pseu- 

 doleukemia, and the like; Acute inflammation of 

 the lungs, pleura, pericardium, peritoneum, or 

 meninges; Septicemia or pyemia, whether puer- 

 peral, traumatic, or without evident cause; Gan- 

 grenous or severe hemorrhagic enteritis, or gas- 

 tritis; Diffuse metritis or mammitis; Polyarthritis; 



