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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
there saw a bull. I examined it and found it was suffering from pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, or lung disease ; the beast looked in fair condition. I could 
only detect a very little fluid thrown out from the chest. I told Mr. 
Tingay I should call and report the case to the policeman. I gave an 
order for the beast to be slain, and directed Mr. Harry Carver, butcher, 
of Downham, to kill it. It was, however, killed at Mr. Tingay’s, and 
then taken to Mr. Carver’s slaughter house. My attention was not 
called by any one to the state of the lungs. I noticed the lungs were in 
the same state as we generally find those of animals affected with pleuro¬ 
pneumonia. The large lobe was partly consolidated, and there was a 
thickening of the pleura, with a slight adhesion. I examined the meat, 
and I believe it was fit for human food at the time it left Downham. 
Considering the quality, it was as nice a piece of meat as ever I saw. 
The animal was four years old. [The order for killing the beast was 
here put in.] I do not remember any one speaking to me while the 
beast was being opened. The policeman might, but I took no notice 
of him. I think 5s. 6d. per stone was a fair price to give for the 
beast. It would have been worth 7s. 6d. alive. I did not see Mr. 
Massingham. 
Asked as to the keeping of the meat in the room, piled one piece on 
another, witness said it should have been placed in a thorough draft. If 
it were hung together, it would create decomposition in a few hours, and 
cause a disagreeable smell. 
Cross-examined .—I have no doubt it had pleuro-pneumonia. 
Are you aware that the Act says every animal dying should be buried, 
and do you think you can get away from that by cutting the animal’s 
throat just as it is going to die, and then disposing of their bodies ? I 
saw the lungs ; they were discoloured. I think the animal had been 
labouring under the disease four or five days at the least. There had 
possibly been an effusion in the chest for four or five days. I do not 
think the blood was affected. I should not have minded eating the beef 
in the condition it was when it left Downham, if I could not have got 
better. (Laughter.) 
Dr. Lowe .—Do you consider pleuro-pneumonia an infectious disease ? 
To a certain extent. 
Is there any question that the animal having its blood disorganised is 
unfit for food ? It depends upon the state. 
Mr. Sims Reeve .—It was a diseased animal; the blood was affected ; 
was not that diseased meat ? No answer. 
By Dr. Lowe .—I gave an order for the sale of the carcase. I gave it 
to Henry Carver, and told him to make the best he could of it. He 
is a nephew of mine. He was to sell it as salvage for the Privy Council. 
By Mr. Ward .—I intended it to be sold as human food. 
Mr. Reeve. —This, at least, ought to go to the Privy Council. The 
attention of the Government should be called to this man’s conduct. 
Mr. Wilkin said he found his client had been cruelly done by some one. 
He should call no more witnesses. 
The Court was cleared for a short time, and when the public were again 
admitted the Mayor , addressing the defendant, said that, after hearing the 
evidence, they were of opinion that the beast was diseased, and ought 
not to have been removed to Lynn; but considering the case, they 
fined him in the mitigated penalty of 20s., and expenses, £l 2s. fid. 
