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contagious pleuro-pneumonia, hog-cholera and closely allied 
diseases, Texas fever and many similar affections. We be¬ 
lieve it to be generally conceded that in all this class the flesh 
of such animals is only rendered dangerous as human food 
-when the disease-processes have attained such a stage as to 
produce a decided variation of the body temperature, marked 
emaciation, or other grave pathological conditions, in which 
eases the meat should be absolutely condemned as human 
ood and only permitted to be used for industrial purposes 
ifter the carcass has been rendered inocuous (in case of con¬ 
tagious disease) to other lower animals. 
1 Class C might with profit be divided into rather indis- 
inct sub-classes ; 
ist. A group of what we might term “ sporadic ” infectious 
liseases, such as pneumonia, pyo-thorax, pysemia, septicaemia, 
nteritis, septic enteritis, pyo-septhaemia or omphalo-phlebitis 
)f new-born animals, recent infected wounds, etc. 
This includes one of the most important classes of diseased 
neats in the entire category, although from their nature they 
re of comparatively little concern to our subject proper— 
lational and international meat and food inspection—because 
hey are ordinarily slaughtered for local use. Bollinger has 
fell observed that of all authenticated cases of death from the 
onsumption of diseased meats that eighty percent, were due 
3 the use of flesh from “ nothgeschlacteten thieren,” or ani- 
lals slaughtered when death from other causes was imminent, 
l order to avoid financial loss to the owner. These animals, 
■ aughtered under urgent necessity, belong almost, if not 
'holly, in this subdivision, or rather they constitute it. 
In our second sub-class we include the epizootic contagious 
iseases of animals which are transmissible to man, and which 
Iso produce within the animal body ptomaines or other 
lemical products of a dangerous toxic nature—rabies, an- 
lrax, acute and constitutional glanders, tuberculosis and 
:tinomycosis. The entire carcass of animals coming within 
lis class should evidently be destroyed completely, both for 
initary and economic reasons. 
Under class D we would place three closely allied affec- 
