Handbook of meat inspection / by Robert Ostertag ; translated by E. Vernon Wilcox. With an introduction by John R. Mohler.

Date:
1904
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Credit: Handbook of meat inspection / by Robert Ostertag ; translated by E. Vernon Wilcox. With an introduction by John R. Mohler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    plague. By the careful destruction of tuberculous organs, the dissemination of the pathogenic organism and the possibility of its transmission to other animals are prevented. The disastrous consequences of carelessness in handling tuberculous organs and parts are shown by an occurrence in the abattoir at Copenhagen. For a long time the butchers were allowed to feed hogs with the refuse from the abattoir. On slaughtering these animals it was found that 80 per cent, were tuberculous. Statistics on Etdozoa and Meat Inspection.—Statistics on the occurrence of various entozoa which are communicable from man to animals furnish abundant proof of the beneficial effects of meat inspection. Wherever meat inspection has been introduced. Taenia solium of man, which develops from the hog cysticercus, has become of rare occurrence. Thus, in Southern Germany, Taenia solium of man and Cysticercus cellulosae of the hog have become rare in consequence of the existence there for a long time of regular meat inspection. In Munich, Taenia solium is almost never observed. Bollinger, therefore, maile use of the frequency of the occurrence of T. solium of man as a test of the quality of meat inspection. In striking contrast to T. solium, T. sagiuata has constantly increased in the last twenty years, because the early stage of this tape-worm in cattle, partly on account of the non- existence of meat inspection and partly on account of an insufficient examination of cattle for this cysticercus, was, up to within a few years, only occasionally discovered. The cysticercus disease of man lias decreased to a degree which corresponds with the rare occurrence of T. solium. Next to Saxony and Thuringen, Berlin has furnished the largest number of cases of the cysticercus disease of the eye for a number of years. The oculist Hirschberg, for example, observed 70 cases of cysti- cercus of the eye among 60,000 cases of eye disease in the sixteen years between 1869 and 1885. From 1886 to 1892, on the other hand, in 46,000 cases of eye disease, Hirschberg found only two cases of cysticercus, one of which came from Saxony. This can not be accidental, but must be considered as a consequence of the introduction of meat inspection, which took place in Berlin in 1883. From 1892 to 1893, Hirschbei'g observed no case of cysticercus of the eye in Berlin, but observed one from Westphalia and one from Saxo nv. Virchow also observed a less striking, but still noticeable, decrease in cysticerci in co-mparing post mortem findings from 1875 to 1891. Of the 126 larvae of T. solium which were found in