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with unsound meat, was to arrange with various firms to 

 convey it to a special place for boiling down, by a route 

 mutually agreed upon, and to be conveyed in locked carts 

 sealed by an inspector at the slaughter-house. 



If these elaborate precautions are necessary in order 

 to prevent people eating garbage, the success in this 

 country of an institution on the lines of the Freibank is 

 undoubted. 



Sale of Horse Flesh. 



The sale of horse flesh as human food is controlled by 

 the Sale of Horse Flesh, etc., Eegulations Act, 1889, and in 

 this Act the term horse flesh includes that of asses and 

 mules. Horse flesh can only be sold in a place over which 

 a conspicuous notice is placed announcing the fact. A heavy 

 penalty attaches to the sale of horse flesh to any purchaser 

 asking for other meat. 



Any officer of the Sanitary Authority, besides the Medical 

 Officer and Sanitary Inspector, may have the power of 

 inspecting places kept for the sale of this food. 



DAIEY INSPECTION. 



When in 1879 the first Orders were published which 

 brought dairies under some form of sanitary control, the 

 State very rightly vested the powers of the inspection of 

 cows, sanitary arrangements of cow-sheds,* etc., in the 

 hands of the veterinary surgeon, but later on it was trans- 

 ferred from the veterinary to the medical profession. This 

 transfer, hardly by a coincidence, occurred shortly after 

 the medical discovery of some ailment of cows, which, 

 owing to the ignorance of the veterinary profession, had 

 been hitherto unrecognised, and the milk of which was 

 capable of producing scarlet fever in man ! 



We have stated that such an ailment of the cow never 

 existed, and after the experience mentioned on p. 633, 



* For information regarding cow-sheds, ventilation, drainage, cubic 

 and superficial space, see p. 320. 



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