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begun to form spores from exposure to the air; this left no 
doubt as to the diagnosis. This carcass was ordered, along 
with hide, to be at once placed in a closed rendering tank and 
subjected to a prolonged cooking under a pressure of fifty 
pounds steam, which means a temperature of 300° F. 
The fifth and last on list of diseases is tuberculosis. The 
detection and detention of such cases of tuberculosis as would 
seem unfit for consumption has been a part of my work in 
which I have taken much interest, and rigidly examined all 
cows slaughtered here, as the disease is most prevalent among 
them. Up to date, April 1st, twenty-nine cases have been 
discovered, showing lesion all the way from a mere nodule to 
the most advanced stage. Twenty-eight of the above num¬ 
ber were cows, the twenty-ninth being a Northern ox; of 
these five only have been condemned ; this means that these 
five had considerable thoracic and in some cases abdominal 
lesions. 
On account of the differences of opinion as to the danger 
of contracting the disease from eating the flesh of those killed 
during its early stage, and where they have shown only trifl¬ 
ing lesions, I have condemned only such as seemed to be the 
worst. Perhaps it had better be said right here, that the sur¬ 
rounding towns have no system of inspection. 
Although my examinations show a considerable percentage 
of tuberculosis among our Eastern cows coming here, I am 
convinced that the disease does not prevail to anything like 
the extent that some of our members have reported, and pos. 
sibly honestly, suspect. Below are a few statistics gathered 
at the abattoir. 
There have arrived 880 cows, of which seventy were 
Western, leaving 810 Eastern. Of these 880, twenty-eight 
were found to have lesions of tuberculosis; of the seventy 
Western cows not one case was found; the percentage will 
read as follows : 
Number of animals (cows and steers) killed 15,506 
Percentage of Tuberculosis - - - .17 
Of the 880 cows Eastern and Western - 3.30 
Of the 810 Eastern only - - - 3.60 
Of the 70 Western only - 
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