FEEDING SWINE ON DEAD ANIMALS.
[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sin,—About a mile southward of the town of Hastings is a yard in which a number of pigs are* kept. At the present time they are fed on tho putrifying carcass of a dead ox, which has just taken the place of a dead horse. Very probably, when the worthy swine have finished another horse or cow, they may bo turned into prime dairyfed pork, and exposed for sale in Napier and the adjacent towns. Now, Sir, I havo no malice against the owner of the pigs, as I do not know who ho is, but my wish is to oall attention to it in ordor that, if pork fed upon animals that might in probability have died from disease, is unfit for human food, and liable to bring on measles, typhoid fever, or somo other contagious illness, the hot over-cleanly practice of so feeding them may be stopped. Possibly, as some of your roaders are medical men, and able to speak of the matter, they may feel inclined to say a few words on the subject ror the public goad.—l am, _c, •■- - ■ Health, Hastings, February 20, 1884.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3933, 27 February 1884, Page 3
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200FEEDING SWINE ON DEAD ANIMALS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3933, 27 February 1884, Page 3
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