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Dr. Baker: Under these circumstances it is possible that 
pleuro-pneumonia may be taken there by these Continental cattle 
and the trouble ascribed to the shipments from America. 
Dr. Salmon: That is possible, but I do not think very likely * 
The great bulk of our cattle going to Great Britain are run into 
pens by themselves and they are handled by a class of men entirely 
different from those who handle Continental cattle. I do not 
believe there is much possibility of their being mixed. They are 
kept separate until slaughtered, and until slaughtered those who 
handle them know where the cattle come from; and I thinlk those 
who handle them are rather prejudiced in our favor than against 
us. I do not think any mistake of the kind referred to has occurred. 
Dr. Clement: I was very much interested in the paper of Dr. 
Schwartzkopff; having had some experience, I know that a man 
with His training makes him an authority such as none of us would 
pretend to be on the subject. Germany is far ahead of any coun¬ 
try in the world in sanitary science. Certainly its abattoirs are 
far superior to anything in this country, France or England. In 
Berlin, I believe, he said a great number of inspectors are em¬ 
ployed, and undoubtedly one trained in such an institution gains 
information which is hardly possible in this country. The abat¬ 
toir system, however, is absolutely necessary, in my opinion, to a 
proper conduct of a system of inspection. Unless we can have 
abattoirs it is hardly of any use to have a system of inspection of 
the food-supply in our cities. The classification which he adopts, 
however, I do not quite understand. If I remember right, he clas¬ 
sifies the diseased under three heads. First, he puts swine-plague, 
and, second tuberculosis, and others. Of the first class of dis¬ 
eases, he says that the carcasses should be totally destroyed. Of 
the second class, he says only the part affected should be destroy¬ 
ed. Now it seems to us that those diseases which are not directly 
communicable to man are less dangerous as articles of food than 
those diseases which are directly communicable to man; therefore 
I do not see why those which are classified under the first head 
for total destruction are placed there, while of those of the second 
only a part of the carcass is destroyed. If I remember right, he 
speaks of the classification referring to the temperature of the 
