As analyst to the city of Dublin, I am almost daily called upon to inspect meat suspected to be unwholesome; and I have always condemned as being unfit for human food:—
1. Animals slaughtered at the time of bringing forth their young.
2. Oxen affected with pleuro-pneumonia, when pus is present in the lungs, or the flesh obviously affected; animals suffering from murrain, black-quarter, and the different forms of anthrax.
3. Animals in an anæmic, or wasted condition.
4. Meat in a state of putrefaction.
During the present year about 20,000 pounds weight of meat have been seized and condemned in the city of Dublin.
SECTION II.
MILK.
Milk is a peculiar fluid secreted by the females of all animals belonging to the class Mammalia; and, being designed for the nourishment of their offspring, contains all the constituents which enter into the composition of the animal body.