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from a cow which has one or more hard quarters should not be 

 given to pigs unless it be first boiled. 



The indications of tuberculosis in the pig consist mainly of 

 hard swellings around the throat and the presence of white 

 cheesy-looking deposits of tubercular material within or upon the 

 intestines or the lungs. In the event of either of these conditions 

 being found after death, the owner should not send the carcase 

 to market without ascertaining from the sanitary inspector of 

 his district, or from his veterinary surgeon, that the carcase is 

 free from tubercular disease. 



The Select Committee of the House of Commons, to whom 

 the Tuberculosis (Animals) Compensation Bill was referred, 

 state in their report that they do not think 

 Compensation that serious pecuniary loss is inflicted at 



Condemned S for P resent ky the seizure and condemnation 

 Tuberculosis. °f the carcases of animals for tuberculosis 

 upon butchers who deal in high-class meat, 

 the vast majority of carcases seized being those of old dairy 

 cows. The loss in respect of such cows is considerable, but the 

 butcher who deals in them takes the probability of that loss 

 into consideration in fixing the price he gives for them. 



With regard to pigs, serious loss from seizures falls upon 

 butchers slaughtering home-bred animals. Several witnesses 

 complained that the recommendation of the Royal Commission 

 on Tuberculosis that " the presence of tubercular deposit in any 

 degree should involve seizure of the whole carcase " of a pig is 

 too stringent, especially in view of the fact that the detection of 

 tuberculosis in imported pigs is rendered exceedingly difficult 

 by their importation without their heads and neck-glands. 



The Committee have considered the question whether butchers 

 can meet the risk of seizure by insurance at reasonable rates, 

 and the difficulty which stands in the way of the general 

 adoption of such a system is the variety of practice which at 

 present exists with regard to the amount of tubercular deposit 

 the existence of which in a carcase is held to justify its total 

 condemnation. They recommend that power should be given 



