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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 in the 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 possible, 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 trichina spiralis. 



