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In another letter occurs the following passage: 



A chicken when dead and undrawn is hermetically sealed, and you do not find 

 the decomposition the greatest in the inside of the bird, but you. do find it between 

 the legs and the body and under the wings. 



In still another letter the warehouseman states: 



The result of having to draw poultry in the country for shipment into Chicago would 

 cause the greater percentage of the poultry to arrive at its destination in a more or 

 less putrified condition, and such poultry put into storage, no matter under what 

 conditions, even with the use of modern refrigeration, the inside of the poultry (the 

 fact of its having been wet) will become moldy, either showing mold with black 

 spots or with a woolly fungous growth. 



That opinion is not unanimous in regard to the advisability of 

 retaining the entrails in dead animals until the time of cooking shall 

 arrive is indicated by a number of public statements from various 

 sources, certain of which are appended. 



VARIOUS OPINIONS ON DRAWN AND UNDRAWN POULTRY. 



Franklin G. Fay, of Sacramento, writing on the subject in the 

 California State Journal of Medicine, 1904, Volume IV, page 66, 

 states that 



Resolutions condemning the use for human consumption of fish and poultry from 

 which the viscera were not removed at the time of slaughter were passed by the 

 Sacramento city board of health, and that such legislation, being before the Sacra- 

 mento board of trustees, embodied in the form of an ordinance, was meeting with 

 strenuous opposition on the part of the dealers, led by the large packers and cold- 

 storage men. 



Doctor Fay says: 



If their immense interest in this matter is really in behalf of the public, we should 

 have no difficulty in making a satisfactory adjustment, but as yet we have found no 

 consumer outside of the trade who is opposed to legislation. The reports 



of the Canadian commissioners of agriculture show that the requirements of the 

 English market demand that the intestines be removed. 



Among the very prominent opposers of the custom of marketing 

 undrawn poultry is Doctor Cavana, of Oneida, N. Y. , who makes the 

 following statement in a paper entitled "Dangers in Undrawn 

 Poultry and Game," presented at the annual convention of the 

 American Association of Railway Surgeons at Chicago, 111., October 

 17, 1906: 



Bacterial cultures made from the breasts and legs from 100 undrawn fowls proved 

 the presence and thorough permeation of the tissues in each specimen, with the vari- 

 ous groups of intestinal germs, some tests showing no less than eleven distinct groups 

 in one poultry specimen. Among the varieties of pathogenic bacteria identified was 

 the Bacillus coli communis, the Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus, the Bacillus proteus 

 vulgaris, and the Streptococcus pyogenes. Previous tests of intestinal matter taken 

 from the entrails of recently slaughtered fowls revealed the presence of these latter 

 germs in great abundance in the intestinal canal of every fowl examined, and their 

 discovery in the remote tissues of the undrawn cold-storage specimens proves un- 



