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of that which goes iiito our export trade. The facts which are here stated, in a broad 

 and general way, are known to the writer to be true, and they can be substantiated 

 at any time by a proper inquiry. 



The disease referred to in the concluding part of the preceding paper, 

 tuberculosis, is so widespread and furnishes in itself so strong an argu- 

 ment in favor of a rigid national inspection law, that I think it well to 

 introduce it more prominently in the body of this report, and to that 

 end I submit the following extracts from the able address of Dr. G. 0. 

 Faville, professor of veterinary surgery, in charge of the United States 

 Bureau of Animal Industry, Baltimore, McL, delivered at Grange Camp, 

 Va., August 20, 1889. Dr. Faville said : 



The close competition in the commercial world and the increasing number of con- 

 sumers in our cities increases the temptation to adulterate food products; and as the 

 producers of all the foods consumed are really the farmers the question of food adul- 

 terations comes home to them through their pockets with great force. 



When the farmer's hog has to compete with the cotton-seed oil and paraffine it is 

 expected that the farmer should " squeal," and when his cow has to compete with 

 both the hog and the steer in the production of butter, it is legitimate that he should 

 "kick." It is probable that the chemical processes through which the several in- 

 gredients pass in their transformation into so-called lard or butter would destroy 

 any diseased germs that might be present, but when, as often happens, the meat or 

 milk of diseased animals is consumed, the dangers to human life become much 

 greater. 



There can be no question that the people of the' country do not understand the 

 danger in which they stand, or they would demand protection ; and for the people 

 to demand, is for them to secure. 



The diseases that are directly communicable to man from the lower animals are 

 numerous: Glanders, anthrax, actynomycosis (lump jaw,) tuberculosis, and others, 

 besides the various digestive and other troubles that come from eating meat from ill- 

 conditioned carcasses, are well known to the medical profession. It is a practice in 

 all the markets of our large cities to sell meat from any animal of the bovine species 

 that is able to go to the slaughter-houses. In most of our markets there is no restric- 

 tion on the sale of any class of meats, and as a result any old, emaciated cows, or ani- 

 mals with cancerous jaws, bad udders, or any other disease, are slaughtered and sold 

 for human food. While there is much danger from any animal that is not in a healthy 

 condition, the most dangerous of all, probably, is the one suffering from tuber- 

 culosis. 



Tuberculosis has been recognized under different names for centuries; but not 

 until the last few years has anything like a correct understanding of the disease 

 existed. With this, as with a host of other diseases, the popular name has indicated 

 some existing condition. "Grape," "angleberries," "pining," " consumption," 

 etc., have all alluded to a condition observed in some of the many forms of this dis- 

 ease. It is more than likely that when Moses formulated the Jewish laws against 

 the consumption of animals whose lungs were diseased he referred to tuberculous, 

 and ever since that time the human race has been menaced by this insidious foe. 

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It was stated on the floor of the Senate last winter that statistics showed that five 

 hundred thousand children die annually in our cities in the United States from the 

 use of diseased milk. 



What adulterations can possibly be the source of so great danger as the germ of 

 an infectious disease? 



While we do nob like the idea of buying water for milk, it is surely no more re- 

 pugnant than buying sand for sugar, or any other adulterated food, 



