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was entitled to be heard. Dr. Crowforth asked to be allowed to 
re-read his paper that the members present might judge of its 
merit. The chair concurred. After the paper had been read, 
the Society ordered it laid on the table. 
It was moved to proceed with the regular order on the pro¬ 
gramme. Reading of professional papers was in order. Dr. 
Thomas Giffen, of New York, was called to read a paper on 
“Veterinary Education.” Absent. Dr. Geo. H. Berns to read 
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a paper on u Navicular Disease in Horses.” Dr. Berns asked that 
his paper be held over for the next regular meeting. The chair 
so ordered. 
Dr. J. P. Thompson, of Niagara Falls, was called to present 
his paper on “ Jurisprudence ” ; absent. 
Dr. Wilson Huff, of Rome, read his paper, “Bacteria in Milk,” 
which was listened to with interest and heartily received. 
The chair requested Dr. Pendry, of Brooklyn, to open the 
discussion. In doing so the Doctor gave some of the details of 
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dairy inspection in Kings County, as required by the Health 
Department of Brooklyn. He spoke earnestly of the needs of 
a pure and uncontaminated milk supply for our cities and of the 
many insidious conditions which expose it to infection, and 
thought the Society should use its best endeavors to procure 
such legislation as would establish systematic inspection, quar¬ 
antine and fair indemnity throughout the State for all cattle 
condemned and slaughtered as suffering with contagious and 
infectious diseases. 
Dr. W. E. Baker, of Cortland, related some of the conditions 
surrounding the dairy interests of Cortland County, and called 
special attention to one dairy near the city of Cortland that was 
selling its product in that city until a clinical inspection re¬ 
vealed that the herd was tuberculous. The health board then 
refused the milk, but it was now being sold in New York City. 
Dr. John Wende spoke of the character of some of the infan¬ 
tile diseases in Buffalo, and stated that seventy-five per cent, of 
the deaths of children from enteric troubles were due largely to 
unclean nursing bottles with long nursing tubes, and believed 
there would be much less enteric trouble among children if 
mothers and nurses use the utmost caution in cleaning them. 
The discussion on Dr. Huff’s paper was instructive and in¬ 
teresting. The Doctor was given a vote of thanks for his very 
able paper. 
A paper, entitled “ Veterinarians as Sanitarians,” was read 
by C. D. Morris, after which the meeting adjourned for lunch. 
