The evening world., 1894-04-25
CONSERVATIVE BEEF.
tuberculosis Subjected Meat Seized
by Inspectors
Came to New York from Knapp's
New Jersey Stock Farm.
Meat Sent to Gouverneur Hospital
Undergoing Inspection.

DR.. Biggs, the bacteriologist Of the
Board Of Health. Is at work to-day OF.
two speciments of beef. one of which
was sent from Gouverneur Hospital
and the other from a carcass seized and
condemned by Meat Inspector Bryce
Mars. in the slaughter-house of Charles
Mcdonald. at Forty-fourth street and
the East River yesterday afternoon.
The specimen from Gouverneur came
from the market of David P. Arnold
ga East Ninth street, who has the
contract for furnishing meat to Belle
vue and its several tributary hospitals
No letter of explanation accompanied
the i.Ieat, and the person who delivered
1t at the laboratory merely stated that
he had been directed to leave 1t with
DR.. Biggs for examination.
At the hospital this morning 1t was
stated that the meat was unfit for use,
and that it had probably been placed
in the Gouverneur Hospital order by
mistake. The house surgeon, however.
thought 1t obligatory upon him to send
the meat to the Board of Health for
examination
DR.. Patterson, assistant o DR.. .Biggs,
stated that the meat was unwholesome
and In the earlier stages of putrefact!on.
He thought it would be dangerous to eat
Health, which will, in all probability,
demand an explanation of Mr.. Arnold.
that was killed yesterday and quartered
preparatory to selling 1t to East side
butchers. Inspector Mars arrived at the
slaughter-house just in time to prevent
the piece to be examined, to the offal
dump.
In his report to Acting Chief Chemist
DR.. Lederle this morning Inspector Mars
q n 90 n
afflicted with tuberculosis. 1t was pur-
chased alive Monday by Mr.. Mcdonald
In the New Jersey stock yards from a
Mr.. Mcpherson. a commission dealer In
come from the farm OF ]. Knapp. In
Sugar Loaf. Orange County. N. ].
Inasmuch as east side butchers have
hoof in the New Jersey stock yards,
and that many had thus been supplied
from Orange County. President Wilson
Sanitary supt DR.; Roberts .ns ,a ana Or Dr.
clusion, that stock from that section
hereafter coming to the city, shall be
subjected to a most rigid examination.
days be found. i may result q an
county. N. J' beef and perhaps on ali
stock coming from that State ,,ou.
very suggestive coincidence is the fact
that only last Thursday another beef
was seized and condemned in the
slaughter-house, at the foot Of East
Forty-fourth street.
This carcass. Notwithstanding that II
had been butchered in conformity to
the requirements Of the Talmud and
bore the seal Of a rabbi as being pure
clean and free from any indication OF
disease, was found to have been az
fected by tuberculosis.
The meat was known, as Kosher,
and was intended for sale in east side
markets. The kosher stamp Is consid
cred proof positive of the purity and
cleanliness Of the article, for the rabbi
who butchers the beef Is supposed tc
have made a close inspection Of the ami
NAL before death and a rigid examtna
tion Of the lungs and vital parts imme
diately after
The health authorities say that this
class of butchers are paid from 5000 tc
5000 a year, and that there is no ques'
ton that they often pass meat that IL
either diseased or for other reasons un.
well founded, and may in the near
future result in an official investigation