New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18
FOUL FOOD.

DISEASED CATTLE SLAUGHTERED hNp 800 go,
DAILY-TRICKS OF THE TRADE-iVuLrnn,,
"w,Nup.CTuRrD OVER "-oLD MUTTON
DpPSSrD ZIP As "SPRING LAMB AN Ell
nr,,IC Tupr ,TENFD IF THE SALE OF IMPURE
MEATS Is NOT STOPPED.
In what follows there will appear 10 Tue Roheiai
reader or inexperienced housekeeper mnch tnat Is
.Xoccoratc1 or sensational, and perhaps what some
will be disposed to think untrue. Bnt every iac'
stated ia vouchcd for. Several weeks have been
ont in the examination of the subject and the col
,actjon Of the facts stated and Mr.. Thomas Devoe,
Jnsnector of Markets-the city official of whose IN
spcction of the meat-shops Of New-fork TINS
article is a fair, plain statement-is the Oldest
and perhaps the ablost authority On meats
in the country, and one whose Judgment no
butcher in this city will venture to dispute.
The statements, in addition, are supported by
cattle-dcalers, who purchase the animals wheh tney
emerge from the heated and oyercrowded cars; by
butchers who know the condition OF the animal
when slaughtered; by the chemists who understand
the effect of eating bruised and diseased meat; and
by the physician who stands by the bedside OF suffer
ers brought low by fever from eating foul food and
by the death record which shows what NUMBER OF
graves are filled from this cause.
The result of this inspection nd the statement OF
the authorities named, show that very large num-
Der of the people of this city and Brooklyn daily
take impurities into their system at the very time
they suppose they are best supporting the physl-
cal wants of their nature while eating the flesh of
animals which are generally thought to be most
nourishing to the human frame Diseased ana
bruised beef, unhealthy mutton poisoned or bob
veal, sour and impure poultry, and sausages made
of the refuse and trimmings which honest butchers
throw away are daily sold to persons who in many
cases become diseased by eating these "nourishmg
meats" and growing weaker and more feveIish day
after day. finally die from gastric fever, or some
other complaint superuduccd by the use Of the
meats they feed upon
And in this as in most great wrongs committed in
city, the poorer classes of people found to be
the chief sufferers. The persons who reside in
Avenues A, b. G " .,r, -, East Houston, Ludlow.
.,Derry Second and Ffth-sts. and the lower ana
eastern portion Of the city, are principally the per-
sons who consume this kind of food and as most OF
them are of the labOring classes, whose physical
necessities growing out of their daily exercise OF
strength require substantial food than TIC
merchant, clerk, professional man needs, inc
crime becomes more heinous on the part of the
butcher who sells them these meats In the
butchers shops in Mulberry, Forsyth Second-stY
and East HoustOn-st, hardly a carcass of veal was
discovered which, if it offered for sale in the
public markets woud not be at once seized as unfit
10 be clten while bruised beef and impure poultry
liable 10 seizure are sold in tho great majority Of
butchers shops situated in that portion of the city
bounded by BOwery, East River, Pearl, and Twenty
tEiTd-s,s.
HOW IMrURE MEATS ARE BROUGHT HERE.
Col, DE Voc, who made the inspection when asked by
THE TEIpuNE reporter purchasers could be prevailed
upon buy these impure meats, stated that the cheap
ness was one great iuducement and added, Most OF
these meats the unpracticed eye appear sound and
healthy, and in the OF bruised beef the impurities
might not discovered by g0Od Judges after the
scC Naturally
the dishonest butcher in buying his meats, discovers the
injured at glance and "a it sells for less
price than sound beef he is Of course anxious TO pur
chase It, He buys it, has taken TO his shop, cuts it
and his customers, imagining that they are offered
great deal OF noushng food for little money purchase
It, The truth is, that only is there nourishment
of any amount in the meat, but frequently positively
injurious clements" Inquiry this point subsequently
by the reporter Of persons who receive the cattle
they land from the elected the fact that
most Of the cattle which markets. after bav
ing been driven hundreds OF miles, finally shipped
halffed, and huddled into the closely as they
be made to stand; they frequently days and i'll
the case Texas CATTLE weeks the road ard during
that period poorly fed and wateIed; many of the
close, aGordng little ventilation, aud the
cattle instead OF breathing the pure atmosphere which
they have been accustomed to inhale, Obliged to
breathe and again the impure air which they
are seeking expcl finally from their lungs. DR.. Thorn
veterinary surgeon Of this city, states that the
banded pupil Of the the foaming mouth ana the
Quckcned pulse which many of these cattle have when
taken from the indicative Of apoplexy and in
many the fever which they have incurred by being
closely confined cured by subsequent treat
nent and analysis Of the blood made after they are
slaughtered shows that the whole system has been poi
soned. The application Of the brakes TO the
cars when at full speed, the sudden start
ing OF tie train, throws the whole combined
weight Of the cattle upOn the two situated at
end of the car, and those animals
enough to be packed in those places badly
bruised and manned frequently be unable to walk
hours after the has been empted of its other
occupants These bruised cattle eagerly sought for
by butchers seeking cheap meat and the cOagula0n
OF blood in the bruised parts mparts to the unsked
ofthe merely redness seemingly indicative Of
tenderness the deception is the easily carried
Better provision is made for carrying cattle OF
the railroads and great portion Of this result has been
brought through the efforts OF Mr. Bergl Presi-
dent of the Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Animals.
OLD AND WORKOUT cows.
Another kind of beef which finds it way the tables
of the poor the flesh of which, OF
advanced and failure in milk giving sent 10 the
farmers last resort the NewYork market for final
position. DR. James H. Vaudeville says: "The flesh Of
these animals, after they have undergone the usual
hardship Of railroad travel is unhealthy that
hull beef because failure in the TO give the farmer
implies either old age disease, and II the former
proves to be the of default the flesh is manesy
unfit TO be eaten because the vitality which gives
ishmcnt 20 the animal Is wanting; and in addition the
testimony Of every scientist in the land shows that
that period actual disease nfects the animal throughout
and that the thin beef characterized by butchers
only not nourishing but positively Injurious"
The 'itical butcher ready for great bargains the
Of the train quickly espes this article and forth
with purchases at reduced prices More OF this kind Of
beef discovered in the shops in the eastern section