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money consideration and divide the larger portion between the 
so-called examiners. 
It is true the law as passed is a miserable failure ; but vvhy ? 
Because the profession of this State is cursed with men who are 
lost to all sense of feeling, I was going to say, but they never 
knew what that was. I tried to do some good. I failed. Why ? 
I ask again. Because I never had the hearty support of the pro¬ 
fession. Why I cannot tell, except that many might have looked 
at it in the same light that Dr. Peabody appears to, and because 
of such apathy they allowed a few to have their own way. 
Better men than I have failed with such odds, but such a fail¬ 
ure should show a bitter lesson, resulting perhaps in unity of ac¬ 
tion in the future, and hence more good may result from what I 
tried to do—not that I wish to claim all the credit (?), and I would 
that, none of it fell to me—yet I did work, and for what I thought 
a good cause, but not for “cheap notoriety.” Yours very truly, 
W. H. Pendry. 
SANITARY REPORTS, 
MANITOBA, CAN., VETERINARIAN’S REPORT FOR 1886-7.—RE¬ 
MARKABLE DECREASE IN DISEASE. 
Mr. W. McEachran, M.D., Y.S., Consulting Veterinarian, has 
submitted his report for the year ending June 30, 1887, to the 
Provincial Department of Agriculture. The following extracts 
show most conclusively the benefits derived by the province from 
the strict precautionary measures taken by the department to pre¬ 
vent the spread of disease, and constitute in themselves the best 
defence that can be offered the public for the stringency of the 
rules enforced. 
Mr. McEachran, in opening his report, expresses pleasure at 
the absence, during the past year, of any serious outbreak of dis¬ 
eases of an epidemic or endemic nature ; only sporadic cases hav¬ 
ing required to be dealt with. 
Referring to glanders, he says: I have to report a satisfac¬ 
tory reduction in the number of cases of this most troublesome 
