THE VETERINARIAN AS A SANITARIAN. 
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contamination, again from commercial impurities, the work of 
unscrupulous dealers and the addition of water and robbing 
of cream, the use of coloring matter, the addition of boracic 
and salicylic acids to maintain its sweetness may at once 
become of the utmost importance to the family physician deal¬ 
ing with some obscure disturbance of the digestive tract in 
the little babe, whose steps from infancy to old age are dogged 
by so many hidden and incipient dangers. 
In cities of the first class the time is now ripe for the es¬ 
tablishment of public abattoirs, where every piece of flesh 
intended lor public consumption should be examined before 
admission for distribution, while in the process of preparation, 
and again macroscopically and microscopically before emerg¬ 
ing from its walls to be placed upon the stalls as an article of 
food for consumption. 
In the State a thorough sanitary police bureau, sustained 
by just and reasonable laws, through which the veterinarian 
may rise to the position he soon is destined to fill, if you are 
alive, fellow members, to the importance of your own position. 
A chief at the capital of our State, with a staff for the work as 
a whole, while at both ends of our commonwealth staffs for 
work of a more local character ; these with trained aids at 
every chief railroad center and city, would be enabled to cover 
our entire State with a sanitary police system which would 
save thrice over the expense entailed in limiting the com¬ 
mercial losses, while the benefits accruing to the limitation of 
diseases and suffering would be inestimable. The future of 
medical science finds its strongest hope in sanitary work and 
the prevention of disease seems more likely to afford us better 
fruits than the limitless creation and production of medica¬ 
ments. 
Pleading with you, fellow members, for more aggressive 
work in agitation and individual efforts, commanding you as 
an Association to accept the role of leadership that falls so 
justly within your domain, I prophecy for you the grandest 
future, as far beyond your anticipation of to-day and your 
hope of to-morrow, as the distant scintillations of the glorious 
sunrise may be compared with the lowering clouds that so 
