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imperative, and his knowledge and the results of his observa¬ 
tions are certainly of vital importance to all boards of health, 
although, unfortunately for the people interested, in many in¬ 
stances his services are more or less ignored by many such 
boards. A limited amount of thought on the subject will 
assert the fact to all, that, in the public interest, as well as 
private, the management of the sanitary arrangements of 
the dairy and its products in all their details, the same of the 
abattoir or slaughter house, the butcher’s stall, the food, the 
quality of feed, hay, oats, etc., and their honest measure, as 
well as the stimulation of the aims and discipline of the hu¬ 
mane organizations, such as the Society for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Animals, in a kindly and intelligent manner, are 
surely the veterinarian’s responsibility. 
Of course the benefits to be derived from the above will 
never be brought about by simple authority, coupled with 
the arbitrary arrogance and bullying of the average wearer 
of the badge of inspector, who in many instances is entirely 
ignorant of everything but the knowledge of the fact that he 
is an officer, and that he has a pull in the ward —no, it is im¬ 
possible, for intelligent administration of sanitary medicine is 
successful only through firm, honest, considerate discipline, 
in which discrimination is indispensable, and patience is a vir¬ 
tue, in order to gain the good will of all concerned for the 
common good. 
That incurable pest in the horse known as glanders would 
rarely become chronic, endangering the lives of all who come 
in contact with it or its surroundings, and a suspicious case of 
this horrible disease would not be concealed in the hope of 
curing the same, or criminally 7 selling the animal, if all horse 
owners were more thoroughly convinced of the possibility of 
its inoculation in man as well as beast, and thanks to the re¬ 
cent labors of the Bureau of Animal Industry, apparatus has 
been discovered, the manipulations of which will give a more 
positive diagnosis of a suspected case of glanders. 
I doubt that a single instance will ever be recorded, where 
a farmer or dairyman has permitted a case of suspected tu¬ 
berculosis, (consumption) in a milch covy to be withheld from 
