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    " It is unlikely that much will be done at present, but I consider
that if we educate men to perform the duties efficiently there will
be a demand for their services eventually."

    Mr. Farbrother, who had stated his veiws in his circular note,
informed the meeting that in certain localities there was at present a
demand for this class of worker, but the duties could not be under-
taken by the Veterinary Assistant posted in the locality as he had
to tour his district for a considerable part of his time, and while
he was away from his headquarters there was nobody left to do
the work except a salutri or compounder. He thought that the
work was essentially a matter for the municipalities to take up
themselves.

    Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson stated that the appointment
of meat inspectors had now become essential in many parts. He
had a great deal of experience in regard to cattle slaughter. Near
Bombay there was one large slaughter house in which buffaloes,
mainly, were killed and their meat subjected to a process of drying
and then exported to Burma. The conditions of the slaughter
house were very bad and there was no inspection whatever of the
meat. The question which he wished to ask the meeting was to
what extent veterinary colleges could undertake the training for
this work, as men for the work must be provided.

    Mr. Quinlan thought that much useful information with regard
to the incidence of tuberculosis and other diseases would be obtain-
able with an adequate system of meat inspection. He thought
that the Military Department could co-operate by assisting them in
the system of meat inspection.

    Mr. Hewlett stated that the students at the Bombay college
were admittedly not given an extensive course of training in meat
inspection, but they were given theoretical training at the college
and elementary practical instruction at the Bandra slaughter house.
He agreed with Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson that the condition
of affairs at the Kurla Slaughter House, where dried buffalo meat was
manufactured for the purpose of export to Burma, was disgraceful.
But he did not consider that the state of affairs in the other slaughter
houses in Bombay was quite so bad. Before a proper course of
instruction could be given to the veterinary students at the slaughter
houses, it would be necessary to enforce the inspection of meat at
the slaughter houses, and this was a matter for legislation.

    Khan Saheb Sheikh Naiz Mohammed believed that the inspec-
tion of carcases at the slaughter houses would give valuable informa-
tion relative to the investigation of disease in general, for at the
present time it was customary for animal owners to send their
diseased animals to the slaughter houses to be used as human food.

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