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to summary action and relief from these parasites of the profession. In Allegheny 
County two traveling, peripatetic veterinary dentists squatted themselves for a time 
to gull an innocent, confiding public by their arrogance and charlatanism, when, 
through the efforts of Messrs. Waugh and Rechtenwald, under the direction of your 
committee, warrants wore sworn out for their arrest. Through some weakness of 
the machinery for the execution of our laws, these fellows learned of the action 
against them, and suddenly left for new fields and pastures green. In Washington 
County, action was commenced against another veterinarian for practice without 
registration, and was settled by the imposition of a fine and the removal of the of- , 
fender to other parts. A third case coming under our notice was the location in 
Reading of a veterinarian named McNeill, claiming to be a graduate of Harvard Vet¬ 
erinary Department, and the only veterinarian in Reading honored with membership 
in the United States Veterinary Medical Association. He had gone so far as to make 
a registry of these facts on the prothonotary record. Dr. Noack kindly reported the 
case with a newspaper comment of his talents, which was a tissue of falsehood and 
misstatements. Investigation was promptly made, and the courtesy of Prof. Osgood 
quickly armed us with all the necessary evidence, upon receipt of which I wrote him 
a very firm and emphatic letter as to the false statements he had entered upon the 
county register, and that if the same was not corrected within forty-eight hours from 
the receipt of my letter prosecution would be commenced, whereat he disappeared 
promptly and failed to leave his new post-office address. 
Such is, in brief, a few points of action relating to legislation during the past six 
months, and with such vigorous action in the enforcement of our new laws we soon 
would find that no State in our country was more highly blessed in the attainment 
of wise and just laws, all tending to a higher and better condition of affairs, a more 
exalted standard for our profession, a higher recognition of its importance to the 
well-being of every community, and a more generously conceded support and suste¬ 
nance of our proiession, than Pennsylvania. 
Respectfully submitted, W. Hora.ce Hoskins, Chairman . 
On motion, report was accepted. 
Dr. M. E. Conard, Chairman of the Committee on Sani¬ 
tary Science and Police, being unable to attend, placed his 
report in the hands of the President, and was as follows: 
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SANITARY SCIENCE AND POLICE. 
To the Members of the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical Association: 
We, the members of the Committee on Sanitary Science and Police, beg to make 
the following report: 
Since our last annual meeting (March 3 , 1895 ) there has been an unusually small 
amount of disease of a contagious character reported to me, and likewise to my fel¬ 
low committeemen. In the early part of the year, as you all know, there was legis¬ 
lative steps taken toward the inspection of live stock—with compensation for those 
animals diseased—on account of the presence of contagious diseases. The appoint¬ 
ment of the officials necessary to the enforcement of this very just and valuable law 
has been deferred beyond the time when it was generally looked for, by the political 
contest just now passed. These conditions, I believe, have had the tendency, at least 
in my locality, to suppress the information necessary to a full report of our subject. 
If this be the case, as I believe it is, we should be enabled to give a much fuller re¬ 
port at our next annual meeting in March, 1896 . But by the kindness of Dr. Bridge 
and others of the committee I am enabled to make the following report: 
