TRICHINAE AND CYSTICERCI IN PRUSSIA. 
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OFFICIAL REPORT ON TRICHIN/E AND CYSTICERCI IN 
PRUSSIA, IN 1885* 
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Trichinae and Cysticerci {measles) found in Swine. 
190,181 less swine were examined this year than during 1884, 
enee the perceptible decrease in the number affected with trich- 
osis. While, in 1884, there was found one hog trichinous out 
f 1,741, the proportion in 1885 is as 1 to 1,852. 
lo. of swine examined.4,421,208 
“ trichinous. 2,387 
pieces of American pork in which trichinae was 
was found. 101 
“ swine in which cysticerci cellulosae was found.. 13,653 
“ official pork examiners in Prussia. 21,117 
It should be known in the United States that the law for the 
ompulsory examination of pork in Germany, while more gener- 
lly applied in Prussia than any other German State, is not yet 
ompulsory, but is still a sort of “ local option ” affair. 
It is most easily carried out in such large cities as have public 
battoirs, where the law demands that all marketable animals 
hall be slaughtered when destined for human food. In such 
Dcalities trichinosis is impossible in human beings from material 
laughtered therein, but nevertheless is not unfrequently due to 
alted or prepared articles which are sold in the city or town and 
ome from the provinces. 
The outbreaks of trichinosis which have been made so much 
f by the foreign representatives of our government, have almost 
^variably occurred in small towns or villages where there was no 
ompulsory examination, or where it had been evaded. 
The only way by which the trichinosis in consumers can be 
revented, aside from thorough cooking, is to make a law that no 
>erson shall cut up a slaughtered hog, even for his own use, until 
aid hog has been passed as trichina-free by a competent inspector. 
♦Vierteljahrschrift fur Grichtliche Medicine, 1886, p. 384. 
