The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-02-27

animals. ne SlauRh-
ter OF these animals was resumed
the admission OF foreigners
to the country. At first the latter
alone ate meat. Gradually, how
ever, the Japanese accustomed
themselves to animal food. and in
the beginning OF 1880 II was intro
duced into the Japanese army.
Meat inspection in the United
States begins back at the opening
OF the stock Yards in Chicago in
1865, according to a report by Ed
ward w. Perry, special agent OF
the bureau OF animal industry, pub
lished in the first annual report of
the bureau in 1884. a number OF
articles appeared in the Chicago
newspapers in September 1857,
declaring that numbers OF diseased
animals were taken from the stock
Yards and slaughtered Tor food Tor
human beings. The effects OF
those articles were very damaging
to the packers. The principal
packers an6 shippers at once >.
erted themselves to assist the city
health officers OF Chicago in their
efforts to prevent the sale OF dis.
eased animals.
The department OF health had
the authority for this purpose over
the entire area within a line one
mile outside the city limits.
Meat OF healthy animals which
is OF itself suitable Tor consumption
as human food may in consequence
OF improper preservation or hand
ling become subsequently unfit for
food. As for instance, slaughter
ing in pens that have no sanitary
conditions, where the refuse OF dis.
eased animals is Ted to hogs in.
tended Tor slaughter, where the
meat is Immediately hurried to the
various meat shops and hung up
in a room with a temperature above
10 degrees, which is oil urs the
most favorable condition tor the
bacteria OF putritaction to multiply
in.
One necessary condition OF the
good property keeping OF meat is
the careful cooling Immediately
after slaughter. The procurement
and maintenance OF a wholesome
and hygienic food supply Tor the
people is unquestionably n OF
the most important subjects with
which the s~anitarian has to deal
with. Public health demands the
purity OF animal food products.
The sanitary supervision OF meats
is m OF the most important parts
OF public hygiene, since meat forms
the almost daily food OF the greater
portion OF human beings Con-
sumers in the majority OF cases
are TOT in a position to recognize
the unwholesomeness or danger
Gus character OF the meat OF which
they partake as food. Meat may
possess the freshest appearance,
the red co.or, the firm consistency
or fat contents, the peculiar odor,
all the characteristics which 20 TO
make up perfectly normal meat,
and yet I've unwholesome.
The d,ctum OF the English states.
man, Disraeli; Sanitary educa.
ton is better than sanitary legis-
lation, does not apply TO the con.
sumption oil meat by man. Relia.
BILE criteria Tor the differentiation
OF wholesome and unwholesome
meats are furnished only by the
inspection OF food animals betor,
slaughter and the investigation oil
all parts oil the animal after slaugh,
ter, by meat inspection, thus Il
happens that there is no dehni,,
means ot preparation 10y which al
the unwholesomeness attaching &c
meat under certain circumstance,
may be removed. The consum'r,
therefore cannot protect himsel
sufficiently by pr means
Furthermore, experience has shown
that the public even IN those case:
in which il is possible by observ
ing certain precautionary measures
: 10 avoid the harmful effects OF eat
ing meat, is inclined to neglec
. these precautions. For this reasol
5 1t is TO be considered the plain dut.
OF every community, through III
organization OF meat inspection 1
withhold from consumption a
meats which are likely to inJur
. the health OF the consumer. Tha
I meat inspection is necessary 10
the preservation OF public health
Z can easily be demonstrated throug.
the possibility Of transmission c
e animal parasites, such as trichina
5 tape worm, etc, as well as IN
most dangerous toxic and inieC
I tlous diseases, tuberculosis, an
. thrax, ~sePticemIae, pyemiae, &C
h. tinamycosls and botulismus, G
$ meat poisoning. 1t has been show
+. that anthrax spores resists a boi.
ing temperature OF thirty-hve mir
4. utes.
Z Meat OF tuherculus animals
highly toxic, and unfit Tor food
Cases OF meat poisoning, sepsi
: intestinalis, according to Bollingel
y infectious interitis, according I
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