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TRICHINAE AND CYSTICERCI IN PRUSSIA. 
It is this home-fed, home-used, locally disposed of and unii 
spected pork that causes most of the outbreaks of trichinosis i 
Germany. 
The increase of municipal (public) abattoirs in the large citic 
of Germany has been marked by an augmentation in the numbc 
of pigs slaughtered and consumption of pork. 
The compulsory inspection of pork for trichinae and cysticen 
has been bound with an increased consumption in all places wher 
it was so executed that the public had confidence in it. The in 
portation of American pork has again become less than in th 
preceding year. 
(The only way this difficulty can be overcome is by the e> 
porting packing-houses organizing a suitable trichinae inspectioi 
bureau in the works, and having the work done thoroughly; the] 
branding the pork non-trichinous , and having it turned out so b 
experience. It will not be found as expensive an undertaking a 
many of them assume. Women make first-class trichinae inspei 
tors.) 
Trichinosis in Human Beings. 
In June, 1885, in Stettin, a merchant, his wife, two childrei 
and maid-servant became trichinous from eating pork in an absc 
lutely raw but spiced and freshly salted condition. All recoverec 
In the town of Forst, on the Oder, forty persons had trichi 
nosis; two severely ; the pork was from a privately slaughterer 
hog , that was not inspected. 
In JDrossen, three mild cases. In Konigsberg, a workma 
died. In Soran, a few mild cases. In Ost-Sternberg, fifteen o 
same character. In Merseber^, also fifteen cases. In Berlin 
trichinosis only occurred in one family, that of a dentist; the t 
ate a ham. presented them by a friend from the country. The wif 
became ill on the 4th of February, 1885, and died the 23d. Tin 
dentist, the four children and his two assistants and servants, wer 
also quite ill, but recovered. All the patients presented acuh 
gastric disturbance, followed by characteristic rheumatoid coinpli 
cation of the muscles and tumefactions in the face. The dentis 
and three of the children were confined to the bed. 
