EDITORIAL. 
651 
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT APPOINTS SUCCESSOR 
TO DR. RUTHERFORD. 
Dr. Fred Torrance, Winnipeg, on the recommendation of the 
Minister of Agriculture, has been appointed Veterinary Director 
General to succeed Dr. J. G. Rutherford, who retired from that 
position, and that of Live Stock Commissioner, some months 
ago. Dr. Rutherford had done an immense amount of work in 
the control and eradication of infectious and contageous diseases 
of animals, had rendered the Dominion of Canada an incalculable 
service in public health matters generally, and had organized and 
set in motion an immense sanitary system, that the government 
realized it would require a man of more than ordinary ability to 
continue to operate to the best interests of the government. Hon. 
Martin Burrell, who had the matter under consideration, realized 
that some of the large questions affecting the national health, like 
that of bovine tuberculosis, yet remained to be dealt with, and 
that it was essential to secure a man whose scientific training and 
executive ability would enable him to handle these problems in 
the manner that their importance demands. Such a man has been 
found in the person of Dr. Fred Torrance, so well known both 
in the United States and Canada, that it is scarcely necessary to 
add any comment here, although a word as to Dr. Torrance’s pe¬ 
culiar fitness for the position might not be out of order. Dr. Tor¬ 
rance, after obtaining his B. A. at McGill University, spent a 
year at the Ontario Agricultural College, and then the Veterinary 
College, taking the V.S. and finally D.V.S. from the School of 
Comparative Medicine at McGill University. The doctor, thus 
equipped with knowledge and degrees, went to Brandon, Mani¬ 
toba, where he engaged in general practice, and at the same time 
held the position of district veterinarian under the provincial gov¬ 
ernment. In 1897 he moved to Winnipeg, where he became ac- 
tively engaged in general practice and won the distinction of being 
one of the largest and most successful veterinary practitioners in 
Canada. When the Agricultural College of Manitoba was or¬ 
ganized, he was appointed Lecturer in Veterinary Science, and 
