The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-17
CITY INTELLI NOE
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DISEASED MEATS IN Our MARKETS.
There can be no doubt that vast quantities of
diseased meats are annually disposed or in our
markets. either in the shape OF the raw mate
rial,n or worked up into sausage, mince-meat,
and so forth. The unsuspecting public OF course
buy, are satisfied and grow unaccountably i'll;
and the blame is laid to typhoid fever or expo
sure at the skatng-parks. The miracle is that
pestilence is not prevalent with as now, as IN
European cities. Elsewhere we record the pol
soning of whole family from the use OF dis.
eased pork. There is danger, too, that diseased
beef may be sold in our markets. More than
month ago we stated that an epidemic disease
prey allied among the cattle i'll Montgomery
county, and that the diseased meat was liable to
be brought to Philadelphia and exposed for sale.
On Monday, at a meeting of the Montgomery
County Agricultural Society the matter was
brought up for discussion. and the ASSOCIATION
was addressed by prominent physician who
has devoted much time and attention to an
analysis of 1t. The disease, he states, prevails to
greater extent in the lower ana middle por-
tions of Montgomery comfy than anywhere
else within fifty miles OF Philadelphia; and
although the very meagre description OF the
European disease received here has prevented
q comparative analysis, there can be no doubt
whatever OF the fact, that this plague II not the
rinderpest, is certainly equally contagious aud
fatal.
The Society," fully conscious of the importance
of the subject, has appointed committee to
memorable the Legislature, and press upon it
the necessity for instant action to prevent the
sible, the course of the plague.
There can be no doubt that the subject will
receive prompt attention in Harrisburg and
until it receives publicity through the action Of
the Legislature we have little hope that our
councilmen will awaken to ITS importance
There can be no question as to their duty in the
matter. 1t is plainly and manilestlY to call for
an immediate and thorough investigation, and
at the same time to instruct the Board of Health
to exercise stringent sanitary precautions rela-
tive to the sale of meat and milk. The society
alluded to above passed series OF resolutions
recommending farmers not 10 sell their deceased
cattle but while the larger number would act
conscientiously in regard to it, there are very
many to whom the pros pect OF obtaining small
sum, and having the sick cattle removed with
out trouble to themselves, would be sufficient
inducement to close their eyes to the intention
of the speculator and the ultimate destination oi
the meat.
We find in foreign exchanges accounts of the
trichind or pork disease, that fearful malady
which is raging IN Germany. Instead of dis
ease proper, it is an affection of worms, the lar
vac of which are taken into the human stomach
by eating pork, and are there hatched in mil
lions, finding their way into all parts OF the
body and literally eating up the patient alive
The disease is not entirely unknown to the old
medical writer's, but its recent appearance has
given the first opportunity for toleTably clear
apprehension OF its nature. In small factory
village a large number OF the operatives who par
took OF pork, purchased from the same butcher
were taken suddenly slck to the number of three
hundred. The disease In It's symptoms some
what resembled cholera, and was treated there
fore, accordingly; with opluim' Wmen was I'M tn
There was soon discovered, however, imbeddeC
in the flesh of some who had died, an lmmens
number of small microscopic creatures. Thes
where they were discovered in the form o
og1jsdi, imbedded in a little shell OF lime. These
on being subjected 70 q slight degree OF heat
speedily brought forth myriads OF small para