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to investigate any doubtful case of le- 

 sions, difficult to class ocularly. In such 

 cases, whilst one of the veterinary sur- 

 geons is at work in the laboratory, the 

 remainder of the staff supervise all the 

 processes of preparing the meat for con- 

 sumption, or exportation, and put aside 

 the diseased cattle, or tainted carcases; 

 declaring the same unfit for food. 



From the very moment the cattle are 

 felled and especially from the moment 

 they are desembowelled, the veterinary 

 surgeon is present, and ocularly, and by 

 palpation, inspects all the organs in 

 which the disease may be discovered. 

 In cases of doubt, incisions are made, if 

 the doubt subsists, the laboratory comes 

 into play, and the carcases are supervi- 

 sed, until the laboratory has decided the 

 case. 



Carcases declared fit for food, are 

 taken to a department called the drying 

 station, where another veterinary ins- 

 pector revises the general and particular 

 state of each carcase brought in. 



