The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-29 00:00:00

The Cattle Plague.

The alarming extent to which diseased meat is
now being sent to the markets of the city of Lon-
don is causing anxiety to the authorities. In ordi-
nary times, and especially of late years, a consider-
able quantity of meat unfit for human food has
found its way for sale into the markets from week
to week, and that in spite of a vigorous and syste-
matic inspection by officers appointed for the ex-
press purpose, and of prosecutions instituted by th©
Corporation against persons offending, resulting
usually in conviction with fine and imprisonment.
The diseased meat of the ordinary kind, wherever
it was not seized and condemned beforehand by the
inspectors, has usually been sold at prices greatly
below the current market rate, and has therefore
fallen mostly into the hands of the poor; and now,
in addition to the ordinary intermixture of bad
meat, large quantities of the flesh of animals which
have died of the prevailing epidemic are being sent
up to the city markets. Yesterday, at a meeting of
the City Commissioners of Sewers, held at Guild-
hall, Deputy de Jersey in the chair, the subject wa%
brought under special consideration.

Dr. LETHE BY, the medical officer of health for the
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rapidly increasing practice of en
of bullocks affected with the prevailing cattle dis-
ease to the markets for sale as human food. He
stated that last week there were 128 quarters of beef,
weighing nearly 8,5001 b., condemned iu the city
markets, and most of it was from animals affected by
the cattle plague. The mischievous effects of this
practice, he said, were not confined to the improper
sale of such meat as human food, but extended to
the danger of propagating the disease by infecting
everything with which the moat was brought into
contact, and as it often came from a considerable
distance the risk of contagion was proportionably
great. As many as 76 quarters of such meat were
sent from Scotland last week, and of these 8 ear-
cases, or 32 quarters, had been traced to oneperson,
who consigned them to different salesmen and in
that the
matter should be further investigated, with a view
different names. In another case, where informa-
tion was communicated by letter addressed to the I
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Lord Mayor, the inspectors ascertained that a per-
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to legal proceedings. He also reported with respect
to the markets and slaughterhouses of the city that
the officers bad condemned 9,0901 b. of meat as unfit
for human food. Most of it was in a diseased condi-
tion, and 5091 b. were from animals that had died of
disease.

In the two case 3 referred to in the report the Court
passed a resolution directing the solicitor to the
Commission to institute the necessary legal proceed-
ings, and on the suggestion of Mr. Farlow, a mem-
ber of the Commission, a copy of Dr. Letheby's re-
port was ordered to be forwarded to the Lords of
the Privy Council.

The office of the Association for the Preventive
and Curative Treatment of the Cattle Plague by the
Homceopathie Method (G, Adelphi-terrace, Strand),
is open daily from 10 o'clock to 4. Instructions and
information maybe obtained gratuitously by encloz-
ing to the secretary a stamped envelope, inscribed
with the address of the person applying. The associa-
tion is now enaged in carrying on important experi-
mentsinNorfolk. A considerable outlay must be in-
curred, for which contributions are asked, and maybe
paid to the bankers, Messrs. Herries, Farquhar,
and Co., 16, St. James-street, W.