SELECT COMMITTEE ON CONTAGIOUS DISEASES BILL. 585 
coming to the market? — I do not think it would prevent 
them coming to the market. 
84. What is the use of their going to the market if they 
cannot be sold? — Exactly so. 
85. Mr. Miles. — But it subjects them to the penalty of 
.£20? — Yes, for sending any animal which is known to be 
in a state of disease from off the farm to the market. 
86. Chairman. — But if I understand you right, your opinion 
is that they ought not to come to market at all? — Just so. 
87. That is your object in legislating on the subject ? — 
My object in legislating is to keep these animals as much as 
possible from being brought in contact with other animals. 
88. Mr. Caird. — In what condition would a farmer be who 
has cattle that he is informed that he can neither sell nor 
dispose of? — They are saleable as slaughtered animals in the 
early stages of the disease. 
89. Lord Naas. — Would it not have the effect of casting 
suspicion on the whole dead-meat market in this country, 
and would not the conclusion that people would come to be, 
that the greater portion was diseased meat?— I can hardly 
think it would have that effect. It is well known that the 
meat of diseased animals finds its way into the dead-meat 
market, and has done so for years and years past in very 
considerable quantities; not only animals which are labour- 
ing under disease, but frequently animals that die with 
disease are thus disposed of. There is a class of butchers 
that will be found to buy anything in the shape of an ox, or 
a pig, or a sheep. 
90. Mr. Miles. — Have you been to Newgate Market on a 
Saturday? — Yes, frequently. 
91. Have you seen the description of meat that is sold 
there to the poorer classes? — I have seen meat exposed for 
sale which was quite unfit for human food. 
92. In every state of disease? — Yes. 
93. A proper inspection, according to }mur idea, would 
prevent that ? — Yes. 
94. At present, I believe, the inspection is wretchedly bad ? 
— Yes. 
95. Mr. Ball. — Do you think it would be injurious to a 
farmer if he w r as to report immediately that he discovered 
disease in his cattle? — I can hardly think it would. 
96. Would it not be for his benefit to have the diseased 
animal taken from the rest, and if, upon his communicating 
to the Board of Guardians, or any other recognised body, 
they certify that the other animals were pure and clean, that 
wmuld rather advance than injure his sale, as Lord Naas 
