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Show 00 MILLIONS OF POUNDS OF MEAT CONDEMNED Washington. Sopt. 21. The care with which Cncle Sam protects his meiit-eating children is shown In a report Issued by the department of asriculture today. For the seven years in which a meat inspection law has been in force tbc following figures fig-ures were given: Animals Inspected before slaughter. ".77,000.000; carcasses rejected, 1,-100,000; 1,-100,000; parts of carcasses condemned condemn-ed 4.750.000: reinspection of meat ard meat food produced, 44.000,000,-000 44.000,000,-000 pounds; meat and meat food products pro-ducts condemned on reinspection, 148,000,000 pounds, certified for ex-j port, 8.000,000,000 pounds The report states that inspection of rifat Is now carried on in 702 slaughter slaugh-ter houses in the United States by a Force of 2400 veterinary inspectors and assistants. These slaughter l.oiiFes are scattered among 237 cities and towns "In tho brce packinc houses." says the report, the poft mortem inspection inspec-tion work Is so divided that each car-cass car-cass must pass the scrutiny of sev-eal sev-eal Inspectors, each of whom glve6 his entirp attention to pxaminlng certain cer-tain parts Under this system the j Inspector's vision and sense of touch bpcomes so finely developed that the sHphtcFt variation from healthy tissue tis-sue can be at once detected." oo |