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SANITARY MEASURES. 
SANITARY MEASURES. 
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Instructions to Live-stock Inspectors. —The following 
supplementary regulations for the inspection of live-stock 
and their products have been issued bv the United States 
Department of Agriculture to inspectors in charge of abattoirs 
under the regulations of the United States Department of 
Agriculture of March 25, 1891 : 
You are hereby notified that beginning October 1st, 1893, 
the inspection of all hogs slaughtered at the abattoir which 
you are in charge of will be inaugurated. 
This inspection will be carried on in accordance with the 
aforesaid regulations of March 25th, 1891. covered from rule 
2 down to and including rule 12 of said regulations, and will 
be similar in all respects to the system now in operation 
applied to the inspection of cattle and sheep. It will include 
a careful ante-mortem examination of all hogs, as required by 
rule 6, and a subsequent post-mortem examination, as required 
by rule 7. 
The carcasses of all hogs that are to enter into inter-State 
trade as dressed pork will be tagged in the same manner as 
cattle are now marked for identification. The products of 
hog carcasses which enter into inter-State trade will be 
stamped in the same manner as are the products of cattle. 
No microscopic examination will be made of hogs slaugh¬ 
tered for inter-State trade, but this examination will be con¬ 
fined to those intended for the export trade and will be 
carried on as heretofore, and only at abattoirs which export 
pork products to countries requiring a certificate from this 
Government to secure the admission of such meats. Here¬ 
after all inspectors issuing certificates for export of pork 
products which have been microscopically examined will 
enter upon the same the number of each stamp marking the 
packages for which said export certificate is issued. 
All hogs found upon either ante-mortem or post-mortem 
examination to be diseased or for any reason unfit for human 
food will be condemned by the inspector in charge of the 
