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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
leges that physicians are in the free use of public instruments. 
The Telephone Co. allows physicians free use of public tele¬ 
phones at the request of the storekeeper and as payment of the 
company to drugstore proprietors for the space occupied in the 
store. 
Dr. James G. Fish presented the following paper on 
“post-mortem inspection of cattle.” 
“ Instead of directing your attention to the post-mortem 
evidence of the presence of disease in cattle, I have concluded 
that it might benefit some here to be more fully informed as to 
the methods of conducting post-mortem examination now in use 
at the Union Stock Yards. 
“ In accordance with the plan I shall briefly outline a day’s 
work in post-mortem. 
“ The killing force is divided so that each man has his own 
particular part of the work to perform. 
“There will be one knocker, three shacklers, one to hang 
off, two headers, one sticker, two switchmen, one man dropping 
cattle, one to place cattle on the floor, five leg breakers, two foot 
skinners, six floor men to skin bellies, one brisket sawer, one 
belly washer, one man elevating cattle, one man skinning hocks, 
v two rumpers, two shank scrubbers, one shank trimmer, one 
shank wiper, three fell beaters, two backers, one back washer, 
two gutters, three tail sawers, four splitters, one tail puller, four 
hide droppers, one neck splitter, forty-three men wiping and 
washing cattle before entering the coolers, sixty men doing all 
around work, i. e . stripping muscle from head, cleaning casings, 
etc. 
“ This force will kill 114 cattle per hour. All cattle before 
reaching the abattoir, undergo an ante-mortem inspection. 
When the animal has so far advanced as to reach the gutter, 
the inspector stands behind or a little to one side of him, and 
notes the contents of the abdomen, the thoracic cavity and the 
state of flesh of the animal. 
“ If everything is normal and the animal in good flesh he 
passes on to the next carcass, which is only a few feet away. 
“ If the conditions are not satisfactory he immediately 
places a tag of identification on each side of the carcass and a 
coupon on the internal organs, head and caul fat. 
“ They, with the carcass, are put to one side, in a place pro¬ 
vided for the same, for future inspection at his leisure. 
“ As these cattle are killed at the rate of 114 per hour, some 
may think it impossible to give a fair and just inspection, but 
