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THE DEMON BUTCHER.

The New York World, in imitation of the example set by the London Lancet, commissioned a special reporter, accompanied by a competent analyst, to visit the retailers of every description of articles of food, with a view to test their quality, and to expose those traders who vended adulte* rated commodities. The investigation lasted some months, and the results, when published in the World , were attended" with very beneficial results. Many of the adulterators had to shut up shop, and the public were put upon their guard against fraudulent dealers. Another inquiry, somewhat similar in character, has just been instituted by the New York Tribune, It has caused a systematic inspection to be made of the butchers’ shops of that city, with the assistance of the inspector of markets, and has published not merely a copious report upon the subject, but the names and addresses of about 200 butchers who expose impure meat for sale. These butchers mostly reside in poor neighborhoods, and their chief customers are the very classes—working-men and others—who most require that their should be wholesome and nutritious. Cattle bruised in the railway trucks, or over-driven on the road; old and worn out cows; mutton, dwarfed in youth by insufficient food, and sold as lamb ; diseased sheep, and calves less than four weeks old, technically called “ bob veal,” together with sausages and puddings tilled with all the refuse scraping and unhealthy materials usually thrown away by the person who slaughters and trims the carcases for the butcher, constitute the articles retailed by these dishonest traders. It is stated on the authority of an eminent French chemist that there is enough poison in every pound of vwd only oue week old to kill a child of four years, and the medical faculty in New York trace many cases of diarrhoea, cholera, and typhus, as well as of gastric fever, to the consumption of impure meat. Blood-poison-ing is another of its consequences, and Dr tieiusel, of New York, whose practice li s chiefly among the poor, records hig ,belit£ that “one half the children and oue quarter of the adults who are taken ill with fevers of a low or malignant type in that city have brought it upon themselves by eating impure meats, the principal article of which is young veal. ” Commenting on the above, the Argus says dwarfed mutton is occasionally sold as lamb in the Eastern Market, in this City, on a Saturday night, and the purchasers of cheap meat in Melbourne may not sustain any detriment by being made acquainted with the devices resorted to by some of the butchers in other large cities.

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Evening Star, Issue 2961, 15 August 1872, Page 4

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THE DEMON BUTCHER. Evening Star, Issue 2961, 15 August 1872, Page 4

THE DEMON BUTCHER. Evening Star, Issue 2961, 15 August 1872, Page 4

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