The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-22

"The writer always buys IN the markets
the beef that is inspected and sealed as per-
| feet by the sign manual Of Jewish in
spector. An Israelite eats no uninspected
beef. Every congregation employs con-
scientious person of their own faith for this
especial purpose. It's by him bled, and
each one of the vital organs religiously
examined. If there be tubercle in the
lungs, granule or blemish in the liver, or
any aneurism or adhesion in any part.
even though the flesh be like alternate lay
ers of coral and ivory-he will not affix to
it the Endorsement that renders it edible TO
the faithful. Buy beef so inspected, and
there can be no fears Of eating unwhole-
some and diseased neutrality-suspicious..
The Levitican law is the cornerstone
of all codes for the preservation Of health
and morality. They are there presented
in their mutual relations, showing how i'm
possible it is to preserve health without
order and virtue. And although virtue
does not depend on health, yet the Jews
knew, as we all know, that for full per-
Torrance of all the responsible relations OF
man in the wisest and most satisfactory
manner, as well for the public good as the
social order, men should enjoy the full de-
velopment of their faculties and be in the
possession of perfect health. So the law
entered into oil the matters of daily life Of
man and the very food that sustained it.
1t is surprising that the Christian race,
which takes for their guide the inspired
record of the Jews in so far as it may not
be inconsistent with the Christian dispen-
sation, should pay very little respect to
some of its wisest injunctions. One Of the
most practical was that with reference to
healthy meat for the people. While it
cannot be expected that the whole Of
the Jewish sumptuary law can ever be
adopted by others than Jews-especially
that the ham of bacon will ever surrender
or be surrendered-it is on easy matter
to provide that the meat that we eat shall be
healthy. This the Jews make sure of by
requiring every animal slaughtered for
their eating to pass the examination of their
inspectors, and to be marked with their
mark when it is placed in the shambles.
As contemporary truly suggests, we are in
some sort compelled to eat the meat rejected
by the Jews.
Why is there not general system of in
spection of meat for public consumption
Why has not every city of ten thousand
inhabitants and upwards public or gene
raj slaughtering establishment, where all
animals killed shall undergo this inspec-
ton, and where there shall be q certainty
that none but healthy ones shall be slaugh-
tered for consumption
This is question most seriously concern
ing the health and welfare of communities.
1t is growing steadily more serious. For as
the country grows older the arts and tricks
of trade become more numerous and adroit,
because the temptations to resort to them
are increased. In old times, men were
simple and honest, and did not dream of
fraud in such matters. Now, when rail
roads and steamboats, are equalizing the
standard of vice and crime, and whetting
the keen wits of swindling by opening new
media for their exercise, we must look for
them oil the time as putting society in peril,
and, as far as possible, provide protection
against them.
Not only should this question of public
food be considered with reference to the
growing propensity to defraud and deceive
in the preparation of it +; but with reference
to the multiplication of tendencies to dis
ease in the locality Of increasing popula-
tons. No wise community in such condi-
tons will leave neglected any cause of the
developments Of disease, or any that may
stimulate and nourish it when once deve-
loped and bad food is one of the worst of
such causes. ar