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CHARLES MOROT. 
animal origin, imitating in this its European predecessors of 
1869 (Zurich), and 1889 (Paris). There is a proof in this that 
in young America, as well as in old Europe, this important 
subject of public hygiene is not considered in a narrow or local 
spirit, or from the exclusive point of view of a single locality or 
region, without reference to the policy or the interests in the 
matter of other regions or communities. Each nation will of 
course be influenced by its own specific and charaeteristic 
traditions, and its special personalities; but, as said M. Mille- 
rand, it is not any longer possible for them to continue to be 
shut in by their own boundary lines without giving due weight 
to the customs, opinions, and laws of their neighbors. An 
absolute necessity, in my opinion, lies upon each country to 
occupy itself with the foreign regulations of the trade in ali¬ 
mentary substances. 
These regulations must be studied in full, and minutely 
compared, in order to make them a basis for reciprocal ex¬ 
changes and advantageous modifications. They must thus 
amalgamate together, and to a certain extent become identical, 
in order to become at least uniform in their general outlines. 
The examinations at home of these regulations, will also be 
very advantageous. From an economic and hygienic point of 
view, a country would derive much benefit from sending dele¬ 
gates occasionally to others, to learn by ocular observation the 
abattoirs, slaughter-houses, markets, etc., with their methods, 
and to investigate the condition of the various organs of the 
animals treated by them, with the appliances in use and modes 
of working of these establishments, and their methods of in¬ 
spection, including the nature of the meat condemned, and the 
sale of some specified meats, etc., etc. Such studies by these 
delegates would constitute very instructive object lessons of 
facts, while there are in existence so many practices in common 
application in one country which are considered impracticable, 
and repudiated in another, for the simple reason that they are 
unknown or have never been understood. These international 
methods of improving the commercial and sanitary police of 
