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TRICHINAE AND CYSTICERCI IN PRUSSIA. 
seating the slaughter of 6,193 cattle, 2073 sheep, 163 swine and 
24 calves. 
On account of the presence of inflammatory processes ther< 
were condemned the lungs of 2,165 animals and the livers o 
807. 
The foot and mouth disease was found present in 44 cases a 
the abattoir and 129 at the police slaughter-house. 
199 swine trichinous, or 1 to 1,330 of the total numbe 
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inspected. 1883-4 the percentage was 1 to 1,131. 
1,180 of the swine slaughtered at the abattoir were measly. 
1,028 swine-lungs and 186 sheep-lungs condemned for filaria 
For inflammatory processes 2.165 lungs and 807 livers o 
the above animals. 
On account of actinomycocis caused the condemnation o 
110; lime-concrements of 50; rouget, of 247 swine at tin 
abattoir. 
By the “police slaughter-house” the reader will understand ai 
especial building upon the grounds of the abattoir to which al 
animals are sent that are condemned while alive, on account o 
the presence of disease, or on account of suspicious symptoms I 
all others are slaughtered in the houses of the butchers slaughter 
ing at the abattoir. 
The whole institution is the property of the City of Berlin 
the municipal officers regulate it and appoint all the inspectors 
who hold their positions during life or good behavior, and arei 
subject to a pension when they become old or if they become 
disabled during service. 
The common laborers are appointed by the respective civil o 
veterinary chiefs, according to the department of work they com* 
in. B. 
Epizootic Abortion. —Prof. Nocard of Alfort has presentee 
a paper to the Academy of Medicine of Paris upon epizootic 
abortion of cows. He presents the theory of the disease as one 
of a microbeian nature of the foetus, and to which the pregnan 
female is an entire stranger .—Bulletin de VAcad, de Medec. 
