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matter, or the conversion of it into chemical manure for which a 
market can readily be found; by these means what is now a foul 
nuisance and decided evil can be remedied at a moderate cost, the 
health of the municipality guaranteed, and much valuable matter now 
being lost turned into a source of revenue. 
In the discussion that followed, Dr. Oldright stated that 
50,000 gallons of liquid manure mingled with solid particles 
are daily carried into Ashbridge’s Bay to the detriment of the 
health of those residing inthe vicinity. The slaughter-houses 
are abominable, and that on the Don is a worse nuisance than 
Mr. Gooderham’s byres. He thought that anything that made 
life less enjoyable, should, if possibie, be done away with, even 
though it might not be practicable to show that there was a 
direct connexion between this particular nuisance, and the 
prevalence of any given disease or class of diseases. He 
asked the assistance of the Institute to enable the Board of 
Health to carry certain changes in the law in the general 
interest of the public. 
Mr. George Murray spoke as to the advisability of devising 
laws for the prevention of such nuisances. 
Mr. George Acheson raised the question as to the whole- 
someness of meat in which the blood has been allowed to 
remain. 
Mr. Alan Macdougall thought that to feed pigs on animal 
offal increased their liability to become infested with cestoidea, 
chiefly the ¢rzchina spiralis. 
