The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-08-15
SYSTEM OF INSPECTION
To Cover Requirements of Massachu-
sets Carcass Shipment Law.

Walter S. Stinchfield of the Skowhe
gan Board of Health, and previously
referred to was sent out by DR.. A. G.
Young, secretary of the State Board of
Health. 1t outlines the action which
has been taken by the State Board of
Health formulating a plan of co-opera-
tive work to bring about system of
inspection of slaughtered carcases,
which may satisfy the requirements of
the new Massachusetts law. This act
ion was taken after personal con-
ference of the secretary with the State
Board of Health of Massachusetts and
with many persons in this State.
Following is the new Massachusetts
law which goes into effect, Sept. |,
and which affects the interest of many
persons in this State:
THE MASSACHUSETTS, LAW.
Carcasses of neat cattle, sheep or
swine slaughtered without the COM
monwealth shall be deemed unfit for
human food and shall not be sold or
offered for sale unless they have been
inspected at the time of slaughter by
an official inspector, and unless, If not
condemned, they have been stamped
or branded by said inspector in like
manner as those inspected by the Uni
ted States Bureau of Animal Industr,
for interstate trade, By official in
spector" is meant one appointed or
approved either (a) by the Bureau of
Animal Industry of the United States
Department of Agriculture; or OBJ by
the State Board of Health of the state
which the animals are slaughtered; or
(c) by the local Board of Health of
the city or town in which the animals
are slaughtered. The stamp used by
inspectors other than those of the
Bureau of Animal Industry of the Uni
ted States Department of Agriculture
shall indicate in letters. not less than
one-fourth of an inch high the name
of the city or town in which the ami
mails are slaughtered. Whoever sells
or offers for sale, or has in his pos
session with intent to sell, carcass,
or any part thereof, required by the
provisions of this section to be stamp
ed or branded which has not been
stamped or branded as herein provided
shall be punished by fine of not more
than 500 or by Imprisonment for not
more than 60 days, or both such fine
and Imprisonment.
BOARD OF HEALTH PLAN.
The following is the plan adopted by
the State Board of Health:
In a given town or in several con-
tiguous towns the persons who are op-
Grating slaughter houses, or the farm
ers, who have been slaughtering upon
their own premises, lambs or calves
for shipment to Boston, must, by CO.
operative arrangement, do the slaugh
tering in some central place, and do
that work at certain times, say once
or twice a week. Then it may be
practicable to have an official inspec-
tor" inspect the carcasses as they are
dressed, There appears to be no 9TH
er way for small operators.
Upon the recommendation of the
local Board of Health of the town i'll
which the central slaughter house is
10 no no rI will n n
point an inspector the person nomin
ated by the local Board of Health, un
less there appears to be good reasons
to decline to do SO.
In the choosing of person to act
as inspector preference should be Civ
en- to well-qualified veterinarians and
physicians, but when these are not
available the right kind of intelligent
non-professional men may be chosen.
The persons in whose interests the
local inspection service is arranged
must pay the inspector. That is a
matter between them and the inspec-
tor. There is no other way.
The State board has made arrange
ments for the manufacturing of stamps
such as are in use in Massachusetts.
The whole outfit will cost 1855. The
secretary of the board will order these
outfits if money is sent with a request
to order, or he will forward the name
and address of the manufacturer.
The secretary of the State board will
send to each inspector instructions
how and where to stamp the carcass
es and will be glad to advise them how
to qualify themselves to make the in
spections properly and to help so far
as he can any persons, who are inter
ested in this work,
Fish Is very unwholesome when not
well cooked. as we'll as unpalatable.