VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
159 
John Cuthbert, V.S., thought that the carcases were perfectly 
sound and wholesome food, and that the presence of flukes in the 
livers was not more marked than in the generality of sheep at this 
season. The fetid atmosphere of the depot would seriously dete¬ 
riorate the meat. There was no ventilation whatever, and when he 
entered the building that morning it was impossible to breathe. 
He would have no objection to eat the meat. 
By the Town Clerk. —The close atmosphere would not pro¬ 
duce the flukes in the livers. They were diseased independently of 
the flukes ; there were slight symptoms of organic disease. 
Mr. Brouyhton, V.S., corroborated the evidence given on behalf 
of defendant as to the state of the meat, and the prejudicial effect 
of the dense and close atmosphere in which the carcases had re¬ 
mained all night. 
John Robinson Smith, butcher, and master of the slaughter-house, 
said that he saw the ten sheep killed and dressed in his shop. He 
considered them fit for human food. He saw every sheep opened, 
and there was not the least appearance of dropsy. Externally the 
kidneys appeared to be sound ; and when they were cut open, they 
were not so bad as he had seen some. Had seen some kidneys so 
diseased that the fingers could be easily passed through them. The 
kidneys in this case were slightly diseased. 
Mr. Bruce. —Would you require that kidneys should fall in pieces 
before you would say they were diseased? 
Witness. — No, sir ; there is a difference between a kidney falling 
in pieces when you put your finger through it and such as these 
kidneys were. 
The Town Clerk. —Then when they fall in pieces, we can agree 
they are unsound. (Laughter.) 
By Mr. Granger. —When the sheep were alive, I went to Dr. 
Robinson, in order to get him to examine them. 
The Town Clerk. —Then you considered it to be part of your duty 
to get the Medical Officer of Health to get him to examine your sheep 
and see if they were sound? A.—They were not my sheep. 
Q.—But they were in your place? A.—Yes. 
Q.—Why did you do so? A.—Because Dr. Robinson and Mr. 
Newliouse came the day before and they said that some sheep had 
gone out of the yard. 
Q,.—And what did they refer to ? A.—Nay, I do not know. I 
wished to know, because there had been several policemen about the 
place. 
Q.—Do you always go to Dr. Robinson before you kill sheep ? 
A.—No; but I went this time, and would go again when people 
begin to make a noise about them. I wanted him to see them alive, 
as I thought I was responsible after they came into my place. That 
was the only reason why I went. 
Henry Walker , butcher, and a Corporation valuer of diseased 
cattle, said that he had seen the sheep, and in his opinion they were 
free from disease and fit for human food. Had he been engaged in 
this case by the Corporation, he would have passed them. 
