No. 4.] CATTLE COMMISSIONERS. 481 



1. Those professional men who carry out meat inspection are 

 expected to examine the slaughtered animals, and so to give a 

 guarantee that every case of tuberculosis among the slaughtered 

 animals — and in every such case the spread of the tuberculous 

 process — will be accounted for with certainty. 



2. The most important part of the meat inspection is the sure 

 detection and the perfectly uninjurious removal of the organs that 

 have been changed by tuberculosis, together with their appendages. 



3. With regard to the flesh of tuberculous animals, the parts 

 affected with tuberculous centres and bound by the corresponding 

 lymphatic glands are to be treated in the same way as the tuber- 

 culously altered organs. If the tuberculous alterations in the 

 meat are confined to the lymphatic glands situated in it, the muscle 

 may, after cutting out the bones, joints, vessels and lymphatic 

 glands and adequate dissection, be handed over, in a sterilized 

 condition, to be used for food. In the case of fat animals, the 

 melting out of the fat tissue that has been separated, with avoid- 

 ance of the tuberculous centres, is likewise permitted. 



4. In the case of local tuberculosis and in that of general tuber- 

 culosis healed and limited to the organs of the cavities, the meat 

 may be dealt out raw, to be used as food. If the tuberculous 

 process in the intestines is of considerable extent, the obligation 

 to declare it is to be insisted upon. 



5. The whole of the meat, except the melted fat, is to be with- 

 drawn from use as human food, if there exist marked emaciation 

 or the signs of very recent infection of the blood (tumor in the 

 spleen, and swelling of the lungs, liver, spleen or kidneys) . 



6. In cases where the local character of tuberculosis and the 

 harmlessness of the meat are doubtful (especially when there are 

 tuberculous caverns and incipient derangement of nutrition), the 

 whole of the meat is to be sterilized before being handed over as 

 fit for food. 



7. The sterilized meat and the melted fat is to be sold under 

 declaration. 



B. Of the Milk. 



1. The cows, goats, etc., kept for dairy purposes are to be 

 subjected to regular veterinary control. 



2. The milk of tuberculous animals is not to be used for human 

 food, if the animals are emaciated or affected with tubercles in the 

 mammae. 



3. In accordance with the mode of proceeding in the kingdoms 

 of Denmark and Sweden, the emaciated and tuberculous dairy 

 animals are to be immediately removed from the farms and destined 

 for slaughter, compensation being given to owners. 



