VETERINARIANS AS SANITARIANS. 
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south, to say nothing of the smaller cities and villages within 
this radius which receive their supply also. Of this large terri¬ 
tory in the eastern and south-eastern portion of the State, nearly 
all of which is devoted to dairying, but a small portion is under 
sanitary inspection. In this field, I believe we can do a great 
work for humanity. Impress upon the dairymen the criminality 
of selling milk from cows which are suffering with disease, and 
that the act is none the less criminal by selling the animal itself, 
whose flesh ultimately reaches the table of some innocent con¬ 
sumer. A few sanitary principles should be in vogue at the 
dairy ; thorough cleanliness, light and ventilation of stables, pure 
water supply and wholesome foods are the essentials which 
should enter into the management of the dairy. We should be 
in touch with the health officers in our immediate locality, 
working together in one common cause to maintain the health 
of the community. This applies more especially to children 
and the young, whose sensitive tissues and bodies of suscepti¬ 
bility, if they reach normal maturity, depend wholly upon the 
character of the food they receive. How often it is the case, the 
family physician can trace the enteric trouble in the babe to the 
milk can ; and not infrequently do we hear of a case of tubercu¬ 
lar meningitis in the child of a family whose record is as free 
from the disease as if the disease never existed upon investiga¬ 
tion traced its source to the family cow, or the dairy from whence 
they had long purchased their supply. It is along this line of 
professional work that the veterinarian can make for himself a 
reputation worthy of his calling. 
My fellow-practitioner, has it ever occurred to you, when 
making professional visits among your clients, to make a 
thorough investigation in search for the cause of the disease 
which is then under treatment, with the same unremitting vigil¬ 
ance with which you treat it; and how multiplied are the in¬ 
stances, at the conclusion, that the unsanitary surroundings are 
sufficient cause for the malady. In no other way can we mani- 
fest greater professional skill than in being able to remove the 
cause of disease, rather than treating it successfully, and espe- 
