118 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 
In New York City, January, 1869, eight cases occurred in 
a boarding-house in Carlisle Street, from eating sausages. 
Two of the victims died in the New York Hospital, and others 
were dangerously sick. Itis a significant fact that the physi- 
cians in two hospitals mistook these cases at first for typhoid 
fever, and only discovered the mistake after one death had 
occurred. 
In Bridgeport, Conn., January 30th, 1870, raw smoked 
ham was eaten by five persons. Of these Mrs. Koch died of 
acute Trichiniasis, February 15th ; Mrs. Winter died February 
16th ; Mr. Winter died March 1st ; a daughter of Mrs. Koch, 
aged two and a half years, died March 7th. Mr. Strasburg 
was for a long time very dangerously ill, and was left in a very 
feeble condition. Another person who ate some of the same 
ham fried, escaped entirely. Mr. Winter thought himself not 
seriously ill when his wife died. Some portions of his pec- 
toral muscles, which I have had an opportunity to examine, 
were filled with Trichine, not yet encysted. There were 
perhaps 100,000 to the cubic inch. 
Prevention. 
Experiments have fully shown that nothing less than the 
most thorough cooking, so prolonged as to destroy all redness 
of the juices even in the interior of the meat, is capable of 
destroying these parasites and rendering pork a safe article 
of food. Cases, some of them fatal, have occurred from eat- 
ing ordinary fried sausages, roast pork, and pork that had 
boiled two hours. But the majority of severe and fatal cases 
have happened from eating smoked ham, raw or partly cooked, 
and various kinds of smoked and dried sausages, which are 
often eaten raw, or but slightly cooked. 
Therefore, if people will eat pork at all, they should make 
it a fixed rule never to eat it unless thoroughly cooked, if 
they would avoid one of the most painful and dangerous dis- 
eases known. 
There appears to be no certain way of preventing the 
disease in hogs, for it is probable that in most cases they get 
it by eating rats or mice, which are often full of Trichine, 
but it is quite probable. that, they,may often be infected by 
