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Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
IMPORTANT APPLICATION UNDER THE 
NUISANCE REMOVAL ACT. 
ROT IN SHEEP. 
On Saturday, Jan. 4th, the Town Clerk of Leeds made an'impor¬ 
tant application before Mr. Bruce, at the Town Hall, under the 
Nuisance Removal Act. On Friday evening Mr. Newhouse, In¬ 
spector of Nuisances, visited the premises of Mr. William Jackson 4 
butcher, Shambles, and seized the carcases of ten sheep, dressed for 
sale, which the officer, along with Inspector Storr, alleged were 
diseased and unfit for human consumption. 
A large number of butchers were present in Court during the 
hearing of the application made by the Town Clerk that the carcases 
of the ten sheep should be destroyed. Mr. Granger appeared to 
oppose the application on behalf of Mr. Jackson. 
The Town Clerk said that he had to make an ex <parte application 
under the terms of the Nuisance Removal Act, 1863, by which the 
Medical Officer of Health for the borough or the Inspector of 
Nuisances might at all reasonable times examine animals, carcases, 
meat, &c. ; and, if they found any diseased, unsound, unwholesome, 
or unfit for the food of man, they could lawfully seize, take, and 
carry it away, or direct it to be carried away, and then make an 
application before a justice for the destruction of such as might be 
found to be unsound. As something would turn on the construction 
of the words of the section, he wished to call the attention of the 
Court to the fact that it provided that any animal, carcase, or meat 
diseased, unsound, or unwholesome came within its provision. He 
now applied that the carcases of nine out of ten sheep, seized the 
previous evening by Inspector Newhouse, should be destroyed. 
There was no provision in the Act for giving notice to the person 
whose property was alleged to be unsound, but in this case he (the 
Town Clerk) had given notice to the owner of the sheep, and he 
understood that, availing himself of such notice, Mr. Jackson had 
summoned a number of witnesses, and that he was prepared to raise 
the question whether the sheep were unwholesome or unsound. 
He (the Town Clerk) thinking that the Court might wish to hear 
independent medical testimony, had sent for Dr. Clifford Allbutt. 
A messenger, sent for Dr. Allbutt, returned to Court, and stated 
that that gentleman had been called to Wakefield. 
Mr. Granger said that, on behalf of Mr. Jackson, he had several 
veterinary surgeons, and witnesses who had been practically engaged 
in the trade, to call. 
The Town Clerk then called the following evidence: 
Dr. Dobinson, Medical Officer of Health for the borough, said 
that he had seen nine of the carcases of ten sheep seized on the 
previous evening by Inspector Newhouse. The livers were rotten 
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