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affected on the body, seldom on the head.' After my 

 report was pubhshed, I think, I learned the cause, and 

 believe it to have been diseased food We were feed- 

 ing beef livers and I had noticed many cases of tuber- 

 culosis in them. They came from a firm near 44th 

 Street and ist Avenue, New York City, and I raised a 

 row about it, and gave orders to the man who fed the 

 fish not to feed a diseased liver, or one that he would 

 not eat himself, excepting only those which might be 

 a little sour, as this condition seems harmless. When 

 the disease broke out I watched things closely and 

 found that instead of burying the diseased livers he had 

 thrown them in the harbor, through laziness, and my 

 neighbors were complaining that they drifted upon' 

 their shores. He had also cut great tubercles from 

 some livers and fed " the good " parts. As I could not 

 well inspect every box of liver, as business called me 

 away often, I was surprised to find how many diseased 

 livers had been sent, and incidentally, how much diseas- 

 ed beef must have been eaten in the city. On learning 

 this, my first action was to discharge the man who had 

 fed the diseased livers, and the next to find a reliable 

 butcher who would not send livers affected with 

 tuberculosis." 



"Since this we have had no ulcers on the trout, and 

 this is the first time that I have made known what I 

 firmly believe to have caused our great loss of trout 

 in 1890. Just how far other "epidemics" may come 

 from similar causes it is impossible to say, but that 

 diseased food was fed to the fisli without my knowledge, 

 I think will be accepted as sufficient cause for an 

 epidemic." 



