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nual average of the meat of the tuberculous steers killed a 
Lyons may infect 2,300 guinea pigs. 
Mr. Lydtin tells us that in 1888 in the slaughter houses c 
the duchy of Baden, 2,332 tuberculous animals were founc 
out of which only 458 were excluded from the general cor 
sumption. Our estimates show here that out of the remair 
ing 1,774 one-fifth or 355 were also diseased, and could hav 
infected 163,000 guinea pigs. And again, from the same ver 
moderate estimates in respect to the tuberculous meat turnet 
out by the abattoirs of Paris, without counting those whic 
may have been introduced without examination, 156,70 
guinea pigs could be tuberculized through the digestiv 
tract by the use of their meat imperfectly cooked. 
How many members of the human family may have bee 
tuberculized with such a mass of infectious material is 
painful inquiry, and one which no man can answer. But a 
the more it is our duty, with the proofs in our hands, to urg 
the adoption of preventive measures, and to suffer no r< 
laxation of effort in our work of protecting, not merel 
animal, but human life. 
D. To those who discuss the point whether more injury i 
not inflicted upon humanity, and especially upon poor people 
by depriving them of tuberculous meats than would accrue frorj 
allowing their consumption, we will answer that they alloVJ 
themselves to be guided by a wrong appreciation of the dan 
ages which would result from the destruction of the tube: 
culous meats. 
First, these meats are generally of medium or low quality 
and the amount which would be lost to consumers by thei 
banishment from the markets is truly very insignifican 
Placing at five per 1000 the number of tuberculous animal 
a total and vigorous seizure would merely deprive each ind 
vidual Frenchman of the five-one thousandths part of hij 
annual consumption. And the average weight of the mef 
consumed by each individual in a city being sixty-four kilog 
six hundred gramms, and by one in the country, twenty 
one kil., eight hundred and ninety gramms, the total and rh 
orous seizure would deprive the first of only three hundrel 
