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OLOF SCHWARZKOPF. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
THE COMMITTEE-REPORT ON MEAT INSPECTION AND 
ACTINOMYCOSIS. 
By Olof Schwarzkopf. 
When I presented to the United States Veterinary Medi¬ 
cal Association at the Chicago meeting, in 1890, a paper on 
the then undiscussed subject ol meat inspection, I endeavored 
to embody my practical experience of the matter in a concise 
and systematic form. 
Dr. W. L. Williams, Chairman of the Special Committee 
on Meat Inspection for 1891, brought forth a lengthy report 
at the national meeting at Washington in September last, in 
which he adversely criticises portions of my paper. It must 
be admitted that he produces some new and interesting points, 
for which he should be thanked ; but he also makes some 
confusion, throwing things to the right and left in his pecu¬ 
liar way, and then leaves me to straighten them out again. 
Knowing that I woyild be prevented from attending the 
last meeting in Washington, I tried hard to convince him of 
his mistakes, and I had the impression from his last letter 
that we were coming nearer to an agreement in some impor¬ 
tant points, and that the report to the Association would be 
unanimous. However, he has preferred to forward his origi¬ 
nal ideas, and hence this explanation. 
Passing his introductory remarks, Dr. Williams acknowl¬ 
edges that he is in full accord with the principles of meat in¬ 
spection as laid down in my paper, except in two instances. 
Firstly, he finds fault with the classification of diseases for 
the practice of the sanitary veterinarian, and suggests a some¬ 
what new classification, which he calls scientific. Laudable 
as is such an effort, he has failed to give us anything better. 
A classification of diseased meats of the slaughter animals 
according to their degree of peril for the human consumer is 
not a dream of sanitarians, and similar attempts (Schmidt, Muhl- 
helm, etc.,) have proven a failure in practice. Dr. Williams 
