The evening times., 1900-09-22
WAR AGAINST BAD BEEF.
Cattle sefzed at Baltimore Found to
BE Diseased.


Be Diseased
BALTIMORE, Sept. 22-Dr John s.
Fulton, Secretary of the State Board OF
Health, accompanied by DR.. James Bos-
ley. Health Commissioner of Bal more
paid a visit yesterday to the Union Abat :
tolr, at Claremont, for the purpose OF
examining the carcasses OF three animals
which were slaughtered on Wednes esday
ubder the supervision of Inspector Mt
ten, Of the State Board of Health.
These animals were seized on account
of having -lumpy jaw" The lower law
and tongue were removed from each
ana taken Ior examination to the Iabtr-
atory OF Dr.. Jose Hirsh, where they wera
louhe 10 nave extensive infections with
actincmyces, CT ray-fungus The raw
fungus Is a vegetable organism sore
thing like yeast plant and is capable Of
producing serious and even fatal disease
in both animals and man. number
of cases of this disease in human beings
have been observed by Baltimore sur
geons in the past year.
The cattle which were seized. besides
having extensive disease, were extreme :
emaciated. They were condemned and
were put in fertilizer tank in the pre- s.
ence OF the health officers Some idea
or the quality Of this meat may be gaiL /
from the fact that the three animals tS-
gether weighed little more than 7c0
pounds while a good beef would dress
from 100 pounds up.
Df Fulton, in an interview said
Many cattle of this character and quail
lty come to Baltimore and are pur-
chased by dealers who make a speciaItv
OF cheap meat. The passable cuts from
the round and loin are sold to the cheap
groceries and are extensively advertiser
IN window signs. The tongues and Iiy-
efs, II not grossly diseased, go on the
market The remainder of the carcass
Is made up into pudding and sausa
while the dangers from this sort of
1000 are not very definite, such materials
cannot be made into wholesome food or
such food as persons will knowingly buy
quantities OF this sort OF meat are sold
as Soup-meat
The Importance of watching the i'm
portations of live cattle and the prepara-
tion of meat for sale in Maryland increas-
es just in proportion as neighboring States
grow more careful in this respect 1t is
TO some extent the custom of live stock
inspectors to permit the owner to remove
a condemned animal and seek a market in
another State It can, therefore easily
be seen that with lax administration Of
the food laws in Maryland the number Of
diseased animals imported would rapidly
increase.
The work which has been going for
ward for the last two weeks. and particu-
larly the seizure and tanking of five ami
mails, has causesd the dealers 20 notify
their out-of-town correspondents that
there is no market at CIaremont for very
poor cattle. 1t might not be necessary to
keep up daily visits and inspections at
Ciarement in order to break up the traffic
IN diseased meat. II is only necessary to
make-the trade improbable. This could
be done if sufficiently frequent inspections
were made and enough cattle were lost to
the dealers TO drive them into more legi-
innate and safer lines Of business.
Under the present law regulating the
preparation and sale of food and drink
sufficient money is not available for this
work We have accumulated. by economy.
small fund which is sufficient to make
the slaughtering OF diseased cattle ex-
tremely Improbable, and the hoard in
tends, as far as its means will permit TO
continue the inspections and to seize and
destroy as many cattle as they can find -