The herald., 1895-04-07
MEAT AND MILK INSPECTOR
The Candidates for the Appointment Pass ar
Examination


Examination
Last evening at o'clock eight candi-
dates for the appointment to the position
of meat and milk inspector assembled at
the offices of DR.. Moore in the Bradbury
Block, and entered the examination de-
cided upon at the last meeting of the
Board of Health. By Monday it will be
announced who received the highest per-
be appointed to the place, subject to the
confirmation by the City Council. The
following questions were asked:
What is actinomycosis? Give symptoms
anu causes, and effects on meat and milk.
With the extirpation of the diseased
parts, what effect results from eating the
mesh? What glands are subject to inva-
sion?
Give symptoms and causes of tubercu-
losis. Is it contagious infectious, or
both? What domestic animals are most
liable to it? Give post mortem appear
ances. What organs. besides the lungs,
are most liable to show the tubercular de-
posit? Describe the bacillus.
Contagious pleuro- pneumonia. Give
symptoms and causes. What per cent
fatal? How many stages OF the disease
are recognzedp Give them in the order
in which they occur. Make dfferential
diagnosis between contagious pleuro-
pneumonia duu I1e nOD-COnC0ElOuS forms.
Describe the appearance fully of lung
after recovery.
Give symptoms and causes of anthrax.
Give description OF the bacillus. Does it
develop rapidly, or otherwise? To what
extent does it exist in man and what is
the name given to it? In what animals
is anthrax mostly found? In what local I.
ties? Is black leg caused by anthrax
bacilli? Would the eating of cooked an
thrax-infected flesh cause the disease in
man? What is spienic fever? Give symp-
toms and causes. Is it infectious. con.
tagious, or both? What animals suffer
from it? Is slaughtered meet affected
with this disease dangerous? Give de-
scriptiOn of handling infected cattle in
yard and cars.
Give symptoms of epizootic aptha
What per cent is fatal? Describe its pc
riod of incubation. TO what extent does
it exist east of the Rocky Mountains? Is
the germ microbe, bacillus, or a micro
organism?
Hog cholera and swine plague
Make differential diagnosis. Give post
mortem appearances of each. Can hog
have both simultaneously? Give causes
and source of contagion. What localities
most favorable. What per cent fatal? To
what extent does the danger of this dis
ease exist in slaughtering places? What
are the general characteristic appearances
of the germ? Give post mortem appear
ances with the naked eye. Will cooking,
sailing or smoking destroy the germ?
Trichinosis. Give causes and effect on
the animal and on man. Give symptoms
and post mortem appearances and the
most favora BILE section in which to find
the germ, and in what state or condition
is the germ found? How long does it
take to become incapsulated? Can the dis
ease be recognized in the living animal?
Give description of healthy beef, pork,
veal lamb and mutton. Which meats be-
come tainted first, cold-storage or fresh
killed? What changes in appearance of
cold-storage meat after exposure to the
air? What test would you make for a
tainted ham without injury to the APP
pearance of the same?
Describe kitten or monkey veal. How
old should calf be before being slaught-
cred? Describe rOup or swelled head.
Give symptoms, causes and effects OF
scabies. What is the character and
name OF the germ?