CHARLES MOROT. 
IS 
aud springing from the highest authority. It must be enforced 
by veterinarrans only, or in their absence, by special agents 
•under general veterinarian jurisdiction. 
Each community must provide for the execution of the 
requirements indicated, and it is essential that the Government 
shall have a specified list of the principal conditions which 
justify the condemnation of the meat, although a certain amount 
of discretion is allowed to the veterinarian in the formation of his 
judgment. Similar schedules of diseased conditions are required 
by the laws of Belgium, Italy, Roumania and Switzerland;* and 
in some parts of Austria, Bavaria, France and Portugal. 
In the majority of the European nations, where the inspec¬ 
tion of meats is neglected, an important movement is now in 
process of organization, having in view of a governmental 
supervision, under obligatory laws, of a co-operative character, 
and in other of the States already having a system of police, 
though not well organized, action is to be taken to effect an 
inprovement in their present code. In Roumania the veterina¬ 
rians have obtained a general law on the subject by demon¬ 
strating to the proper authorities its necessity and importance. 
Italian and Belgium veterinarians, through the efforts of their 
societies, and as one of the fruits of the Congresses of Bruselles 
(1880) Bologna (1879) and Milan (1881), have accomplished 
the same result. It may be presumed that the veterinarians of 
Germany and Austria will co-operate in a movement in the 
same direction, through the influence of the Congresses of 
Cassel (1876), Nuremberg (1891), and Vienna (1892). French 
veterinarians have worked hard in the Congresses of Paris 
(1878, 1885, 1889) and through their societies, and they are 
hoping to see the realization of their expectations at an early 
period. 
*The list of meats unfit for human consumption was not'overlooked in the pro¬ 
posal of Governmental jegulations offered at the Veterinary Congresses of Milan 
(1881), Vienna (1892), and those of Bulgaria and Germany. It has also been con¬ 
sidered by the veterinarians of the Aube Society and that of the Grand Conseil des 
Veterinaires in 1892. 
