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W. H. HOSKINS. 
Are you aiding and supporting every effort of your brothers 
in the sister science to cover our broad land with a sanitary sci¬ 
ence and police system that shall bring untold benefits and 
relief to suffering humanity and the brute creation? Aie you 
exercising the personal vigilance which is your first duty in 
self-preservation in protecting your streams from pollution o 
such kind and nature as in within your daily province? 
The easy method for the lazy one to rid himself of some 
specimens of contagious and infectious disease through cast¬ 
ing in the stream that runs by his door, or to bury just under 
the sod in some sandy soil along the course of a waterway, 
the reeking carcass, filled with myriads of germs to carry 
disaster and destruction to his innocent neighbors miles below. 
Have you forgotten the pest of hog cholera, that daily lessens 
the wealth and happiness of your neighbors in Jersey, for the 
use of the streams for the burial of the dead? Have you for¬ 
gotten Plymouth in this fair valley, and its scourge of typhoid 
fever, from the little polluted mountain streams that trickled 
to the water supply of the town ? 
Are you unmindful of the severe and. deeply felt losses 
incurred in Monroe county of your native State, from the 
pestilence of glanders that infected almost every public water 
fountain, every common hitching shed and post, and is still 
forcibly reminding us of the great need of a veterinary sam- 
tary police for Pennsylvania. _ 
Are you agitating in your community the necessity oi a 
thorough inspection of your milk supply and specially its 
sources of production, the fountain head of its dangers, as well 
as the necessity of vigilance in the lesser dangers lurking m 
its part from commercial impurities? 
The health and freedom from disease of the animals 
producing this life-giving fluid is of the first importance ; the 
cleanliness and use of pure food in its production ranks next; 
following in their train the need of prompt measures to sup¬ 
press its use, when the source of its production may furnish 
fitting opportunities for its acting as the vehicle of transmission 
of some other contagious malady. 
At its place of consumption you are to ward against its 
