MEAT INSPECTION.

Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7033, 9 June 1891, Page 4

MEAT INSPECTION.

An. important and interesting paper bearing on thisquestion was read some time ago be; fore the British Homoeopathic Society, by Mr. J. S. Hurndall, a distinguished member of the Eoyal College of Veterinary Surgeons ; and fvom it we gather that the pwmaiy contention is this I That the proper inspection of, meat is a question that has not yet received that consideration and attention from sanitarians that its. importance demands. " There is very little doubt," says the author, addressing a London audience of medical men, .'/that tops upon tons of flesh belonging to animals which are the subjects of a tubercular .predisposition are consumed, and that without any apparent injury to the consumers ; but inasmuch as it has been proved that phthisis may be introduced into the human system by consuming tubercular flesh, the risk is far too serious to be incurred with impunity, and therefore no oarcase affected with tubercular lesions should, be passed for human food." Into the illustrative proof which Mr Hurndall gives, we need not enter. Let it suffice to quote a significant statement from the report of a Committee of one of the branohes of the British Medical Association :— " In man 10 to 14 per cent of all deaths are due to tuberoulosis; 150,000, it has been said, die anna* ally in the British Isles of eomsnmptlon." The eubjeot is one that Bhould engage the attention of oar New Zealand legislators. Are the numerous cases of cancer in this Colony due to the sale of infected meat ?