SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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sand dollars ($40,000), while the appropriation in this state 
amounted to four thousand dollars ($4,000) but notwithstanding 
the township Board of Health had multiplied rapidly, and they 
hoped in the near future to establish a local board in each town¬ 
ship. 
Prof. Harger thought the bill, as had been presented, too 
complicated; better one a milk bill and the other a meat bill, 
but what is of first importance is stock inspection. 
Dr. Schrieber thought that any bill which would provide for 
the extermination of tuberculosis would be futile unless it was 
so framed as to necessitate the inspection of cattle from other 
states, thereby preventing the emigration of the disease. 
Dr. Sallade thought the general public should be better 
educated in tuberculosis and other contagious and infectious 
diseases, then there would be no trouble in getting laws passed 
to stamp out such diseases. That the Bovine Association, 
of which he is president, was formed for this purpose largely. 
Dr. Zuill thought that bills as presented are trying to the- 
farmer and dairy-man, as they had all to lose, even his time and 
annoyance. 
Prof. Harger then offered the following resolutions: 
Whereas , The sanitary inspection of the various food stuffs 
consumed by man has reached such dimensions as to become a 
subject for public discussion, and knowing that their contam¬ 
ination with impurities is a menace to the public health, 
Whereas , We have undisputed evidence that certain diseases 
affecting dairy animals are transmissible to man through ema¬ 
nations from these animals and their surroundings, and espec¬ 
ially through the milk as has been established in the case of 
tuberculosis of cattle and other diseases, and which are the 
source of wide-spread and fatal diseases among mankind, 
Be it Resolved , That it is the sense of the association that 
dairies and their surroundings, the milk of which is offered for 
sale in this commonwealth, be thoroughly inspected, and that 
its members display every effort in securing proper legislation 
to procure a pure and wholesome milk supply. 
