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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
cause of this he believed was that the germs of the disease 
were distributed through the barns and stables only. 
On motion by Dr. Fox, the meeting adjourned to meet 
that evening at 7:30 P. M. 
The meeting of the California State Veterinary Medical 
Association convened at 7:30 P. M. The meeting was called 
to order by the President, Dr. H. A. Spencer. 
The President called upon Dr. Maclay to entertain the 
meeting with a paper. Dr. Maclay arose and said that his 
paper was entitled “ The Relation of Animal Diseases to the 
Public Health.” Before reading the paper he stated that he 
had tried to make his essay as concise as possible, but that 
it was impossible to deal with the subject without writing an 
extensive treatise. He warned the members that it would 
take him about an hour to read the paper, and that if any of 
them were tired they had better leave before he began to 
read. He went on to read his essay, which proved to be one 
of the most interesting and instructive papers that had ever 
been read before the Association. He mentioned the follow¬ 
ing diseases, viz.: Trichinosis, hog cholera, trenia medeoca- 
nellata, eczema, epizootica, tuberculosis, anthrax, anthracoid 
diseases, glanders, etc., giving a description of each disease, 
also detailing the different methods of preventing and eradi¬ 
cating them. He then went on and described the popular 
methods of regulating sanitation and protecting the public 
from the ravages of these diseases in the State. He reviewed 
the laws pertaining to these matters, pointing out where the 
laws were inadequate to control them. He said the Governor 
should be empowered to select a commission of veterinarians 
and lawyers to draft proper laws and regulations for the 
purpose of suppressing contagious diseases. A state veter¬ 
inarian or inspector-general should be appointed to look after 
these matters, and enforce laws passed by the legislature. 
The position should not, as is generally the case, be filled by 
those whose only recommendation is a political pull. It was 
true some of these diseases do not exist in the State at the 
present time, yet we never know when they may be intro- 
