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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



[June 1895. 



\ " Provided every part that is the seat of tuberculous iWMt^r 

 be avoided and destroyed, and provided care be taken to 

 save from contamination by such matter the actual nieat 

 substance of a tuberculous animal, a great deal of meat from 

 animals affected by tuberculosis may be eaten without risk 

 to the consumer." 

 " Ordinary processes of cooking applied to meat which has got 

 contaminated on its surface are probably sufficient to 

 destroy the harmful quality. They would not avail to 

 render wholesome any piece of meat that contained tuber- 

 culous matter in its deeper parts. In regard to milk we 

 are aware of the preference by English people for drinking 

 cows' milk raw, a practice attended by danger, on account 

 of possible contamination by pathogenic organisms. The 

 boiling of milk, even for a moment, would probably be 

 sufficient to remove the very dangerous quality of tuberculous 

 milk." 



A supplementary Report by Professor Brown, C.B., contains 

 some observations on the alleged grievances of farmers and 

 others concerned in the meat trade in respect of losses incurred 

 by the seizure and confiscation of carcases of animals found 

 to be more or less affected with tubercle on post-mortem 

 examination. 



Railway and Canal Traffic Acts, 1873 and 1888. Sixth 

 Annual Report of the Railway and Canal Commission 

 with Ajjpendix il894<). [C— 7721.] Price 2d. 



In submitting the Report of their proceedings during the past 

 year, the Commissioners explain the jurisdiction which was 

 conferred on them by the Railway and Canal Traffic Act of last 

 session — viz., to hear and determine any complaint with respect 

 to the unreasonableness of any rate or charge which from and 

 after 1892 has been or shall at any time be increased. The 

 Act gives them also jurisdiction, whenever merchandise is 

 received or delivered by a railway company at any siding or 

 branch railway not belonging to the company, and a dispute 

 arises between the railway company and the consignor or con- 

 signee of such merchandise as to any allowance or rebate to be 

 made from the rates in force, in respect that the railway com- 

 pany does not provide station accommodation or perform ter- 

 minal services, to determine what would in such case be a 

 reasonable and just allowance. 



Another subject with which this Act deals, is that of costs, 

 and it is provided that in proceedings before them, other than 

 -disputes between two or more companies, the Commissioners 

 shall not have power to award costs on either side, unless they 

 are of opinion that either the claim or the defence has been 

 frivolous and vexatious. 



