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the same number of workers as the dairy division, which has charge of matters 
pertaining to the dairy industry. In addition to these departments there are employed, 
under Dr. dk Schweinitz, about 2,500 meat inspectors. Many employed in the 
examination of meat at the slaughter-houses, while others are employed in the micro- 
scopic division for the detection of trichinae, and other such diseases ; many of the 
latter being women. 
Besides this central bureau, each State has its own laws and regulations to meet 
local and individual necessities. For instance, in the State of Pennsylvania we have 
a State Live Stock Sanitary Board, consisting of the Governor of the State, a Secretary 
of Agriculture, a Dairy and Food Commissioner, and the State Veterinarian, and under 
this Board is a Bacteriological Laboratory, of which I have charge ; in which diagnostic 
and research work is carried out. There are also in the State of Pennsylvania a 
Forestry Commissioner, an Entomologist, a Geologist, and a number of Chemists, so 
that it will be seen that the number of trained scientific men employed in our country 
is quite large. There is also in Pennsylvania a State College, in which especial attention 
is given to the testing of foods and fertilizers, and to the instruction of young men in 
the principles of scientific Agriculture and Dairy Farming. 
The invitation to attend the opening of the Johnston Laboratories was especi- 
ally a welcome one to me, and came like a command. Our recent responsibilities in 
the acquisition of the Phillipine Islands, in Cuba and Porto Rico, and the Isthmian 
Canal, as well as the closer relationships which have been established between my 
country and tropical countries in matters of trade, have forced upon us, so to speak, 
the necessity of careful study of the diseases incident to these climates, so that 1 
immediately realized the great opportunity presented to me of learning from those 
who have for some years prosecuted studies so rich in results, as you have associated 
with you in Liverpool in your Tropical School. Your school has more than justified 
its existence, and where it not that it has such sober truth, it would seem fulsome for me 
to add to what has already been said in praise of the magnificent munificence of Mr. 
Johnston in establishing the Johnston Laboratories. We can understand, however, 
the absolute confidence with which he has given this money when we glance over the 
history of your school for the past four years, and which in that short time has 
established for itself a reputation equalled by none in the world. In going through 
the laboratories as we have done to-day, I am sure that all of us foreigners, as well as 
your own people, must have received inspiration, and it was difficult to know what 
to admire most, the far-sighted generosity which had established these laboratories 
or the brain which had planned and equipped the building. We feel sure, however, 
that like the apparatus so substantial, solid, and of the best quality, the work turned 
out from these laboratories will be of an enduring and lasting character — a boon not 
to the University, not to Liverpool, not to England even, but to the whole world. 
The interest of other people in these laboratories is attested by the number of scientific 
