INSPECTION OF MEAT AND MILK. 
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where no abattoir exists, the percentage of cases observed is 
placed at 0.24 per cent. (8 out of 3,250 cattle). In Saxony, ac¬ 
cording to Siedamgrotzky, the general proportion would be 2 
per cent., but in certain cities where the inspection and the 
abattoir are imposed, the percentage is much higher—16.6 per 
cent, at Frankenburg, 17 per cent, at Penig, 19.9 at Dobeln, 
22.4 per cent, at Zittau. Tuberculosis is frequently observed 
in calves. In the Argentine Republic, the proportion of tu¬ 
berculous cattle is reported as from 10 to 15 percent, for those 
imported into the country, as against 0.5 per cent, for natives. 
According to Liautard, the proportion of tuberculous cattle 
in the United States is from 25 to 30 per cent. In Copenha¬ 
gen, for the past year, the general statistics give a proportion 
of 6 per cent.; it is much higher for cows, being 16 per cent. 
At the abattoir of Montauban, the proportion is given as 6 for 
one thousand. In Russia, the disease, unknown among the 
animals indigenous to the south, is very frequent in the north, 
especially among those imported and those kept in stables; it 
sometimes runs as high as 50 per cent. In the abattoir at 
Bucharest, the proportion is sometimes as high as 30 in 100. 
At the Berlin abattoir, which probably furnishes the most 
trustworthy statistics in existence, the official report* for the 
year 1887—’88 show that a total of 924,815 animals were 
killed. “ The entire carcass was condemned as unfit for hu¬ 
man food in 5,783 cases, the cause of seizure being shown in 
the following table : 
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Disease. Number of Animals. 
General tuberculosis - 2,43 5 
Caseous pneumonia ----- 14 
Peritonitis ------- 6 
Dropsy.298 
Scrofula.1 
Ruptured stomach ----- 5 
Jaundice.84 
Loathsome character of the flesh - - 131 
Bloody “ “ “ 36 
* Adam’s Wochenschrift, No. 6, February, 1889, 
