A practical guide to meat inspection / by Thomas Walley.

  • Walley, Thomas, 1842-1894.
Date:
1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical guide to meat inspection / by Thomas Walley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bed-linen, was strewn, and access to which was only gained by means of a cleverly contrived trap in the shop floor; and I have watched the youth of the lower strata of the population of a large town waiting in expectation at the knacker's yard with innocent looking tin cans for the blood and entrails of the to-be-slaughtered horse. The trafific in diseased meat is pregnant with serious con- sequences other than that of direct harm to the consumers. It is one, and the most important, of the means by which the owners of animals are enabled to dispose surreptitiously of their diseased stock ; and if the trade of the blockade runner were suppressed, the temptation to hide the existence of disease would be reduced to a minimum.