THE VETERINARIAN AS A SANITARIAN. 
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of the wisdom of destroying them and ridding their flocks of 
all affected cases, the oftimes commonly termed “ lump 
jaw ” sold to your neighboring butcher to be served up upon 
>our own tables, may be the progenitors of some case of 
actinomykosis in your own family, and it behooves you to 
exercise the most energetic influence in your community for 
the proper recognition of your importance as a veterinarian 
and sanitarian, in awakening the minds of your people to the 
dangers thus lurking in their meat supply. 
The need of watchful care as to trichinosis and measly 
pork is too well 'known to need any comment except to show 
the breadth and scope of our field of labor in the direction of 
sanitary work. The preventive measures for the extermination 
of the. tasnia cercus cellulose, tasnia mediocanellata, will 
at no distant day be placed forcibly upon our shoulders. The 
prevention of our people and the commercial interests of the 
world are clamoring to-day for relief from the disastrous in¬ 
fluences, physically and pecuniarily, that yearly follow in the 
tiain of existence of hog cholera and swine plague. The 
frequent origin of ringworm in the prattling babies about our 
feet, as they fondle the playful kitten, is not too insignificant 
to deserve your recognition. 
Further down in the scale of life lie the unestimated losses 
of chicken cholera and many other contagious and infectious 
diseases, that partly decimate or wipe out entirely our flocks 
of fowls, whose value to the communities in which you reside 
are worthy of your patient efforts to limit. Aside from all 
this, fellow members, as if this was not more than we could 
sustain in our efforts as veterinary sanitarians, to-day upon 
your burdened shoulders the responsibility of familiarizing 
yourself with the dangerous power that the milk supply of 
our nation exercises in acting as the vehicle of transportation 
of such diseases as diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever and 
perhaps many other equally disastrous diseases that sap vital¬ 
ity, producing limitless suffering among those of every age 
color and condition. 
What are you doing in your community to awaken your 
fellow citizens to the importance of your work as sanitarians? 
