KIDNEYS IN LAMB.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16942, 17 January 1923, Page 9

KIDNEYS IN LAMB.

DISEASED ORGANS EXHIBITED. STRIKING OBJECT LESSON. Two badly diseased kidneys, taken from lambs that wore slaughtered foT export, v—re brought- into the* “ Star rfßde tb-day to emphasise the argument i hat diseXve iu kidneys is eo prevalent as to justify the removal of the kidneys Irora the carcases before freezing. The kidneys harl been cased in a very fine mass of fat. and would have been s-hipped Home if the carcase had not. happened to be over 421 b in weight. The butcher's knife disclosed the verv diseased state of the kidneys. Both were enormously big and flabby and discoloured, and one was full of matter. The fat, however, was beautifully white, and gave no indication of the disease in the kidneys. The gentleman who brought, the kidneys for inspection said that he was at the works for only an hour, and the discovery of the diseased kidneys came about quite casually as they were thrown 'out into the bucket. He remarked that the kidneys were the filler for all the impurities of the body, .;nd when disease was found in a lamb, straight off tho mother, as this one was, how much more likely was it to be present when a lamb went on to iorced feed like rape and turnips. In his opinion the liability to disease was then ten times greater. Commenting on the difficulty of de- ' tecting disease in kidneys, the caller. \ who did not wish his name to be disclosed, said that in all prime lambs iu .lie South Island the kidneys were v. holly enclosed in fat. the fat being a non-conductor, the kidneys Avere A'erv hard to freeze to begin with, and Aver© not pure at any time. Fn the Xortli island lamb the kidneys could he seen, ; nd. disease Avas more easily detected. In any case the kidneys were puffy and 11 nfit- to eat when they reached the Old Country, and tho fat was not edible. .Re added that whatever little A-alue there was in the kidneys did not compensate for a retrograde moA*ement ; but the price of kidneys in London today was only Is 3d a dozen.