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cass. The examiner was indicted, but when questioned in 
court it was shown that he had absolutely no conception of 
trichina-examination. His examination had been very super¬ 
ficial, but he had followed exactly the directions of his instruc¬ 
tor, a district health officer. He was therefore acquitted.” 
According to the report of District Veterinarian Krueger, a 
meat inspector in the district of Pr. Eylau was imprisoned for 
four months because he had not complied with the statutes and 
personally taken pieces of meat from a hog which was after¬ 
wards determined to be trichinous. 
District Veterinarian Frauenholz reports that since the be¬ 
ginning of the trichina inspection in 1875 in the district of 
Brieg, several hundred thousand hogs had been examined 
microscopically, but not a single trichinous carcass had yet 
been discovered. This extraordinary result appears to have 
aroused a suspicion even in the German mind. 
In an article in the Virteljahrschrift f. off. Gesundh., 1885, 
XVII, pp. 98-105, the following is recorded : 
“ Dr - Rupprecht (p. 98) states that the reason trichinosis 
breaks out in spite of the inspection is that the inspection is not 
thoroughly or intelligently carried out. Some of the inspectors 
have poor eyesight, and others imperfect microscopes. 
“ Kreisphysicus Dr. Rapmund (p. 99) says the carrying out 
of this sanitary law is left to persons who in many cases do not 
possess the necessary accuracy to fill this important office. It 
is really astounding, he says, that the State should have so 
much latitude in the choice, training and control of the inspec¬ 
tors and not impose restrictions at least equal to those required 
for midwives. 
“Dr. Schwarz (p. 100) says of the two recent epidemics in 
Cologne, it has been proven that one arose from a carcass 
which had been condemned, but which was placed on the mar¬ 
ket through the carelessness of a police officer ; the other 
through the uncertainty of an inspector who was more than 
sixty years old and not sufficiently trained. 
“ Ministerialrath Dr. Wasserfuhr (p. 102) said the trichina in- 
