UNITED STATES MEAT INSPECTION. 
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favor of its assuming the duties which properly belong to States 
and municipalities. 
Dr. Schwarzkopf is inclined to deny my statements as to the 
defects in the German trichina inspection and asserts that they 
are just as unfair as the reports that were made concerning the 
American inspection. Let us see. 
It is not necessary to depend upon the evidence of the aver¬ 
age American tourist who “ with characteristic hurry, runs 
through the schools and institutions of all kinds.” Although 
the doctor may decline to accept the statements of Americans, 
he certainly will not be so uncomplimentary towards his coun¬ 
trymen as to doubt their specific reports. I find from going 
over these reports that not less than 908 cases of trichinosis in 
people occurred in Germany during the thirteen years from 1882 
to 1894 inclusive from eating inspected pork. This is more than 
has ever been reported in the United States from uninspected 
pork, taking all the records from 1852 to 1894. 
Suppose we allow the Germans themselves to tell us why 
their inspected pork has produced so much trichinosis. 
March 30, 1889, the Chief of Police of Berlin issued a warn¬ 
ing to the public against eating raw pork, explaining that pork 
reached the market which had either not been inspected at all, 
or had been only superficially examined. 
Dr. H. Wasserfuhr says (Hygienische Rundschau, Jg. No. 3 > 
pp. 81-83) : “ It is well known, however, that the trichina in¬ 
spection fulfills its purpose very inadequately for the majority of 
cases of trichinosis are due to eating raw or rare pork, which 
has been declared free from trichina by the official microscopic 
examination.” 
Drs. J. Esser and W. Schutz report (Archir f. wiss. u. praht. 
Thierheilkunde XX, No. 1) : “ The examination for trichina in 
the Johannisburg district is according to the report of District 
Veterinarian Kleinpaul, very incompletely carried out. As an 
example of this a case is mentioned where a trichina-examiner 
pronounced a trichinous carcass as free from the parasites. 
Eight persons were infected from eating the meat of this car- 
