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C —In butcher shops. All animals and carcasses inspected should be 
stamped or tagged. Meat unfit for food should be destroyed. 
No meat should be allowed to enter the city unless it bears the stamp 
or tag of a Government inspector, or a certificate from a reputable veter¬ 
inarian, stating, under oath, that he inspected the animals and that he 
found no evidence of disease before or after death. 
The shipper must notify the Health Department stating when and how 
shipped, so that the meat can be again inspected and tagged or stamped 
at the terminal express or freight ofiice before being put on the market. 
It would then be unlawful for any butcher to sell meat that does not 
bear the stamp of a meat inspector. 
Supervision of Slaughtering and Handling the Dressed Meat. — A- —To 
see that this is carried out in a cleanly manner and that the meat is not 
contaminated by carelessness and filthy surroundings. 
Veterinary Supervisiwi of Animals Ow?ied by the Health Department .— 
A —Working horses (inspectors, ambulances, disinfection, etc.). B — 
Examination, care and autopsy of calves and heifers used in the produc¬ 
tion of vaccine virus. C —Veterinary examination, care and autopsy of 
animals used for the production of antitoxic serums. This includes ex¬ 
amination and purchase of horses, injecting toxins, surgical and medical 
treatment after injecting, and the bleeding of the same. 
Inspection and autopsy of dead a?iimals. 
Dispositio?i of carcasses of animals dying from coritagious diseases .— 
A —Inspection of dead animals at dock to determine prevalence and lo¬ 
cation of disease. B —Inspection of dead animals in street. C —Inspec¬ 
tion of hides. Disinfectio 7 i of stables. 
At the conclusion of Dr. Gill’s paper the President called 
upon Dr. Austin Peters, Chairman of the Massachusetts Cattle 
Commission, who said : 
It gives me pleasure this evening to listen to Dr. Gill’s paper and to 
note what he says about meat and milk inspection. I think his ideas 
are all right, but at the same time I think that there will be a great deal 
of difficulty in carrying them all out. 
Five years ago last fall the New York State Board of Health became 
very much interested in the inspection of cows’ milk and the possible 
danger to human beings of tuberculosis. In 1892 they had a bill passed 
which appropriated $5000, to inspect dairy cattle in New York City. 
The infected cattle were destroyed and the owner could claim the cost 
from the State. I was appointed Chief Inspector, together with Dr. 
Cooper Curtice, and Dr. Gilbert, of Long Island. We inspected the 
animals of Westchester and Orange counties, about 10,000 in each county, 
and nearly all in Long Island City ; we gave each cow a physical examina¬ 
tion, and the result was that the claims to be paid amounted to $20,000. 
This scared them so that they appointed a commission, and they have 
not done very much since in that line. 
In Massachusetts we have a law appointing an inspector of animals 
in every city and town in the State. It is his duty to inspect the 
animals in slaughter-houses in the different cities and towns of Massa¬ 
chusetts, also to go around among the stables and examine the cattle. 
We have no State Veterinarian and the work of dairy inspection is in 
the hands of the State Board of Cattle Commissioners. They invSpect 
once a year, and the result has been that the last two years the Cattle 
