As can be readily imagined, the drastic change met with considerable_ Protest from Chinese butchers, especially as the charge for inspection of each pig slaughtered was 10 cents. Amicable relations, however, between the butchers and health authorities have now been established and the result has been the appointment of three meat inspectors for the abattoir work. Dr. Hou-ki Hu, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins'
University, and the Health'
joner, and his ce-worker, Wang, a registered veterinavian from the state of Lowa, pre-Pared the oral and written examinations which were given to the eandidates for the newly instituted post! of inspectors. As a result three, two of whom reside in Nantag and' one in Chapei, were duly appointed.
At 2 o'clock each morning, when the slaughtering of animals takes place, the inspectors go to their respective abattoirs to carry out their work. Each inspector wears a long] white cent, a rubber apron and rubber overshoes.
He is equipped with post-mortem Postmortem instrument, a and various antiseptic solutions. Blank forms are filled out each day after the inspections and handed over to the Veterinarian General and to the Commissione The average number of pi fed each day is 400, These after inspection, if passed, bear a round stamp " whose inscription. states in Chinese characters, "Pork Inspected "and Passed by the: Department of Public Healt Municipality of Greater Shanghai
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