INSPECTION OP MEAT AND MILK. 
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disease to the human family by infected meat or milk used for 
food. Certain it is, that they have nowhere provided such a 
supervision over our food supplies, as in the instances of these 
two most important items, can only be made effective by a 
systematic inspection, conducted by skillful and scientific 
men, whose professional education and experience has fitted 
them for this particular work. To be sure, under the head of 
“ Markets,” in the City Code, there are two sections, imposing- 
fines of twenty dollars, respectively, for selling unsound meat 
or milk from diseased cows. The enforcement of this, like 
the other provisions of the law relating to the markets, is left 
with the clerk of the market. How far the scientific and pro¬ 
fessional attainments of that officer enable him to detect and 
prevent the sale of the meat or milk of an animal with tuber¬ 
culosis, I leave others to determine. 
I have only to add that I think the suggestions made by 
Dr. Clement would provide an adequate remedy for the evils 
under discussion. One, if not both, of the Boards of Health 
should include a competent veterinarian, whose duties should 
be especially directed to the inspection of our meat and milk 
food supplies. The inspection of meat should be made before 
and after death, and to enable this to be done, the places for 
the slaughtering of animals for food should be reduced to as 
few as possible, by the establishment of one or more abattoirs. 
Dr. George C. Faville, V. S., then said :—Mr. President, 
the importance of this question can scarcely be overestimated. 
The fearful ravages of tuberculosis in the human family is 
known to all. In our work of inspection in the Bureau of 
Animal Industry we keep a pretty careful record of the in¬ 
spection of cows in searching for contagious pleuro-pneu 
monia. 
I find from our records that of 163 stables supplying milk 
to this city, containing 2,160 cows, that over 10 per cent, of 
them show well-marked evidence of tuberculosis. I wish to 
introduce the following resolutions for the consideration of 
this meeting: 
Whereas , It has been proven that the unboiled milk of tu¬ 
berculous cows, whether or not the udder is tuberculous, is 
