The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-20
TUBERCULOSIS IN HOGS.
Twenty-three Animals, Apparently
Fine, Were Condemned.

f1ncy were SOnuCTHUCus
That there is tuberculosis in Wayne
county stock. and that it is communi-
| eating itself generally was fully DEM
onstrated at the plant of the Rich
mond abattoir Monday afternoon,
when twenty-three fine hogs. averag-
| ing in the neighborhood of three hun
dred pounds. were condemned by DR..
| Waggoner because the animals were
vertically reeking with tuberculosis,
their interior organs actually being
rotten.
The cases of tuberculosis found in
many of the cattle butchered at the
plant and detected by DIR. Waggoner.
were insignificant when compared
with that form of the disease found in
the hogs, Monday.
Only Two Passed.
| Twenty-Five animals were purcnas.
ed from one farm in close proximity
of Richmond, bue two Of these re-
ceiving the stamp OF approval from
DR.. Waggoner. The disease had COM
municated itself from one animal to
the other so that all but two were af-
/ fected seriously. Ante-mortem exam
nations again proved their worth
lessness. The hogs showed abso'u-
tely no sign of the disease. It took
the killing pen to disclose the awful
conditions. After the animals had
been killed by the sticking process,
the heads were severed. The glands
| in the tubes protecting the lungs.
were swollen out of all proportion and
| were filled with dark green, thick
puss. An ordinary gland is about the
size of a small marble, the diseased
ones found Monday were almost the
size of an egg When these condi-
lions were exposed DIR. Waggoner sus-
pected the worst and Immediately
marked the animals for retainder, till
he could make further and final ex-
animation before passing definitely on
the carcasses. He had no doubt how
ever, but what the animals were snf-
fering with tuberculosis. WheE the
several butchers at the plant began
taking out the entrails and interior
organs from the animals still further
horrible conditions were exposed.
The lungs were hard and filled with
ltuberculer sores and matter where they
il should have been light and fluffy. The
I livers were covered with little white
sores The entrails were filled with
mattery spots. All organs were swol-
len abnormally. The uniformity Of
the ravages of the disease on all the
animals was remarked on by all, and
it was proof that tuberculosis in ami
one to another.
Care Was Taken.
Great care was taken by the butch
ers that the diseased organs did not
come in contact with tables All 9TH
err things used in slaughter. All
knives, meat axes. and hooks, were
disinfected when the job of butchering
the animals was completed. The
floors and tables were too disinfected.
! DIR. waggoner placed his "U S. Con-
demned' on ali the carcasses and as
many diseased carcasses as possible
were placed in the steam watts and
destroyed Those that could not be
put in the steam watts were placed
in the retaining rooms. The U. S. seal
was placed on both steam va-s and
retaining room that the diseased meat
could not be taken out again without
detection.
The entire loss to the abattoir on
the batch of hogs will be near the
$500 figure. As the hogs showed ali
signs of being o. X. on foot, and the
; abattoir purchased them with TO re-
; striction to them, the loss will neces-
sarily fall on the butchering estab-
, lishment An officer at the plant
, stated Monday afternoon that notwith-
/ standing the fact that it would mean
| financial loss to the concern, he
| was glad the disease had been detect
J ed and the carcasses condemned, as
: the conditions were horrible. He said
| he felt a sense of satisfaction to think
that no diseased meat went out of
| his establishment. but for this salts
faction the company had lost consid-
cradle money on diseased animals
since government inspection was
granted.