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of pleuro-pneumonia in six years, or double the length of time it 
required in this country, they should be happy. 
Dr. Baker: Do our inspectors inspect the animals before or 
after they are killed ? 
Dr. Salmon: All American cattle landed in Great Britain are 
slaughtered on the docks within ten days after being landed. Our 
inspectors are very careful to examine so far as possible the Amer¬ 
ican cattle as they go off the ship, and they have the promise of 
the British inspectors, that in case they find anything which they 
consider to be pleuro-pneumonia, it will be brought to the attention 
of our inspectors at once and they will be given every opportunity 
to examine the cases and submit their report to our Government. 
Our inspectors do not see the cattle killed. It is absolutely im¬ 
possible for any one man, at any one of these places to see the 
cattle lulled, there are too many of them. There is a string of 
slaughter houses a half a mile long, in Bedford, where they are 
killing cattle all the time during the greater part of the day. A 
man might watch two or three houses, but he could not watch 
them all. Brobably it would take fifty men to see the organs of 
all the cattle slaughtered. At Bedford some of the wards are im¬ 
mense institutions. I was surprised to see what permanent build¬ 
ings they had erected; we haven’t anything in this country to com¬ 
pare with it. 
Dr. Baker: Another point I would like to have brought out 
is whether the English Government require all animals to be in¬ 
spected after slaughtering, or in case of disease are they dependent 
upon the courtesy and honesty of the British butcher to report it. 
Dr. Salmon : As I said before, their inspectors do not see the 
cattle slaughtered. Of course if they find things which they are 
unable to detect during the life of the animal they must depend 
on the butchers. What arrangements they have or how much 
they can depend upon them, I cannot say. 
Dr. Liautard : Do the English and American cattle go to these 
same wharves. 
Dr. Salmon : There are cattle from other parts of Europe 
there, and there might be a possibility of the American cattle 
mingling with cattle from Holland and possibly other parts of the 
country. 
