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GEO. H. GLOVER. 
investment of this country at the expense of his duty, his priv¬ 
ilege and his obligation as sanitarian and guardian of the public 
health. 
The work of the veterinarian, briefly summarized, consists 
in conserving the animal wealth and guarding the public health. 
I feel that the profession is at fault in neglecting and no doubt 
underestimating its duty in the latter instance. True it is that 
we have taken an active interest in the relation of bovine tubercu¬ 
losis to the human, but aside from this one disease we surely can¬ 
not be accused of over-zealousness. The intertransmissibility of 
tuberculosis, for example, has interested us as a scientific fact, 
but the actual participation in the prevention of such transmis¬ 
sion has given some of us very little concern. I feel that we 
have been neglecting an important and remunerative field of 
usefulness and one that is fast being usurped by our medical 
confreres and too often occupied by laymen. 
Need for Municipal Food Inspection. 
It seems almost superfluous to argue the need for municipal 
food inspection. It is surely destined to be an important factor 
in modern civilization. It is now in its incipiency and while in 
many instances is in bad repute because of being in incompetent 
hands, it is certainly destined to be made more efficient in the 
large cities and to be extended ultimately to the small cities and 
even to the towns. The esthetic sense requires that the food we 
eat shall be clean and appetizing, and common sense demands 
that we get our money’s worth, and that food purchased shall 
in the highest possible degree nourish and support life, and not 
endanger it, or by its bad quality contribute to all that goes to 
make life “ not worth the living.” 
The many instances of meat poisoning, sausage poisoning, 
fish poisoning, of parasitic and bacterial diseases transmitted 
through the medium of food to the human, of serious outbreaks 
of typhoid fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever and other diseases 
transmitted through the medium of milk, together constitute an 
argument for efficient food supervision that cannot be denied. 
The following prophetic statement is taken from the last 
