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organisms of Tetanus, Swine Plague and Hog Cholera, 

 Glanders, Strangles, Actinomycosis, Typhoid Fever and 

 Tuberculosis, and illustrated his methods of examination, 

 staining and mounting. Professor Ostertag's views on con- 

 tagious diseases will be found under that head. 



THE IMPERIAL HEALTH OFFICE, BERLIN. ' 



By means of a letter of introduction from Professor Oster- 

 tag, we were cordially received at the Imperial Health Office, 

 which is a very extensive establishment kept up by the 

 Government specially to deal with all matters appertaining to 

 public health. 



It is most complete in all its numerous departments. Our 

 time being limited, we took special interest in the animals 

 department, but nowhere else in Europe, I believe, could a 

 sanitary engineer, or civic medical health officer seeking up- 

 to-date information find such a concentration of everything 

 connected with sanitation as in this establishment. 



We were shown various methods of sterilization and different 

 apparatus, the simplest being an oven-shaped iron structure 

 heated by a furnace or steampipes and fitted with shelves for 

 receiving the trays of bottles or whatever is to be sterilized. 



The experiment department is thoroughly equipped with 

 every requisite, a very numerous collection of guinea pigs, 

 rabbits, pigeons, rats, mice, pigs, goats, sheep and cattle are 

 distributed in various rooms which are furnished with isolation 

 cages, all carefully labelled, indicating the disease being inves- 

 tigated, and the date of inoculation. Temperature charts, 

 clinical symptoms, etc., etc., are carefully written up. There 

 is also a large dissecting room, a model in its way, where 

 post-mortem examinations are held. They were experiment- 

 ing with foot-and-mouth disease at the time of our visit. 



After visiting the working laboratories and culture rooms, 

 we paid a short visit to the museum, which is in fact an exhi- 

 bition of every sanitary apparatus known, with models, 

 drawings, etc. After a hurried glance at the library, etc., we 

 terminated a most instructive and enjoyable visit. 



