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Bureau conduct their analysis from an impartial standpoint, seeking 

 only to discover the truth and to make it plain before the people. 

 Under the circumstances the rule of law which makes the Common- 

 wealth the sole custodian of the evidence against the accused is 

 just and fair. 



THE WORK OF MEAT INSPECTION. 



The work of this Bureau during the year has been supplemented 

 and reinforced by that of the meat inspection service, under the 

 energetic oversight of State Veterinarian Ur. Leonard Pearson. The 

 great improvement in the surroundings of meat markets and butcher 

 shops and the greater attention paid to sanitary precautions may 

 be set down to the credit of the meat inspection service carried on 

 under the supervision of the Livestock Sanitary Board, of which 

 Dr. Pearson is Secretary. The proper precautious in butchering 

 and in the care of meat were not always observed in this State and 

 the creation of the State Inspection Service, modeled upon that of 

 the Federal government and meant to supplement its work, was 

 greatly needed and has proved its great value by the results which 

 have been achieved during the year, and that without any particular 

 publicity or notoriety. Fresh meat is a very important part of the 

 diet of the people of Pennsylvania, and it is essential that their 

 health should be protected by the State in every possible way. The 

 adoption of pure food laws and the creation of this meat inspection 

 Bureau came in response to the popular demand and not until condi- 

 tions had made them imperatively needful. It is a pleasure here to 

 acknoAvledge the obligations which this Bureau are under to Dr. 

 Pearson and his assistants. It is also very gratifying to understand 

 that the action of the Doctor and his agents has removed many 

 causes of danger and given the people greater protection than they 

 have ever enjoyed heretofore in the matter of fresh meats prepared 

 for consumption within the limits of the State. 



SOME ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



I wish to- record here my deep personal obligation to the Hon. 

 Edwin S. Stuart, Governor of this Commonwealth, for the uniform 

 courtesy and patience with which he has treated this Bureau and 

 for the"^ firm and impartial manner in which he has stood for the 

 defense of the people against the curse of impure or adulterated 

 food. The knowledge that the first citizen of the State was giving 

 the work of this Bureau his personal study was an inspiration 

 to the Dairy and Food Commissioner and all the employes of the 

 office to persevere in the honest effort to well and truly serve the 

 people for whose protection the Bureau exists. I likewise desire 

 to acknowledge my sense of obligation to Attorney General M. 

 Hampton Todd and his assistants during the past year. Upon many 

 occasions it has been necessary to consult them concerning proposed 

 actions of the Bureau, and in every instance great pains have been 

 taken to b(' of service to the Bureau. My relations with the chn'ks, 

 agents and other employes of this office have been of the most 

 pleasant character. We have all striven to work together for the 

 enforcement of law, and especially in the direction of teaching nianu- 

 facturers, jobbers, retailers and consumers that the best article is 

 the cheapest; that adulteration of widely used food substances may 

 easily become a crime and that obedience to law is the best policy 



