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by beast before being landed. Cattle are not examined by a 

 veterinary surgeon before being put on board the intercolonial 

 steamers, but they are inspected on arrival. It is often taken 

 for granted in Tasmania that all beasts bred in the Island, and 

 brought to the abattoirs are fit for human food, whether they 

 have been inspected or not. 



6th. That the milk of affected cows is prejudicial, seems beyond 

 a doubt, for witnesses again and again attribute the death of calves 

 to sucking the milk of such mothers ; and it is absolutely certain 

 that when the udder is tuberculous that the milk must contain the 

 germs of disease in abundance. There can be no question that 

 similar milk, even though diluted, must be fraught with danger to 

 infantile life. We hear much of using the milk from one cow for 

 children, but little care is taken to see that this cow is a healthy 

 one ; if the cow be unhealthy, the victimised infant will have a 

 daily increasing dose of noxious food unvaryingly poured into its 

 system. On other grounds such as the periodical occurrence of rut 

 or heat in cows, more frequently in scrofulous cows, the milk of one 

 cow only is undesirable, for at such periods the milk is deficient in 

 nutritive elements, and would not be so good as milk obtained at 

 regular intervals from two or three cows. As a precaution in dealing 

 with suspected cases, milk ought to be well boiled before using. We 

 may, however, be assured that did those who have the charge of 

 infants know that the milk was likely to possess such characters, they 

 would not use it at all. Some veterinary surgeons assert that they 

 have seen evidence of tubercle in muscular tissue. It is with the 

 muscles or beef that we are mostly concerned as forming the staple 

 of our food. If an animal is in good condition, and the meat be 

 well roasted or cooked before eating, there can be no danger of 

 using it for food, provided there were no extensive marks of disease 

 in an advanced stage present in the viscera, The raw meat and 

 viscera of osteosarcomatous or tuberculous cattle should never be 

 thrown to dogs or pigs There are he same objections to this as to 

 the general inoculation of rabbits with tubercle, as the raw meat 

 ingested must present every facility for the escape of tubercle bacilli 

 into the blood of pigs and dogs, and aid to disseminate tubercle far 

 and wide. Though Mr. Kendall has not seen tubercle in sheep and 

 rabbits, it has been observed in these animals by others. 



SLAUGHTER YARDS. 



Another recommendation to be made is the removal and improve- 

 ment in the working of the slaughteryards or abattoirs. The choice 

 of a more fitting site has already occupied the attention of the City 

 Council. The chief requisites are besides being at a sufficient 

 distance from town that there should be a good fall for drainage 

 and abundant water supply. 



Too much stress cannot be laid on cleanliness, and to this end it 

 is desirable that the blood of slaughtered beasts should be caught in 

 dishes or receptacles ; at present the blood oflfal, etc., are allowed to 

 stream on the floor and are washed away by water, but not by a 

 suflicient force to carry all the refuse away, the consequence is that 

 drains are choked and in warm weather decomposition from putrid 

 remains is set up. All meat should be conveyed from the yards 

 under proper cover. 



