2 SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 
National Veterinaire was, “ The best means of Organization 
of the Sanitary Veterinary Service in France, and the means 
of ensuring its effectual working.” In an elaborate 
memoire 
“M . Verrier , ofProvins, showed the importance of a sanitary 
service from the double point of view of the interests of the 
public and of veterinarians, whose influence and position 
it would improve. Veterinarians ought, therefore, to give 
their aid to the Government to ensure the best possible 
adaptation of this service to its objects. According to the 
ministerial circular, a departmental veterinarian should be 
stationed at some central place, and there should be provin¬ 
cial veterinary officers. But ought all veterinarians to belong 
to this service, as in the Department of Seine-et-Marne or 
ought certain of them to be selected for these duties ? The 
best method of deciding this would be for the authorities 
to name veterinary surgeons for the sanitary service from 
lists drawn up by veterinarians assembled for this purpose. 
Thus, by universal suffrage selections would be made, and 
from such persons selected the authorities might choose those 
most fit to perform the duties. 
i( M. Cam. Fleury, of Chaamont, considered all the veteri¬ 
narians of a department ought to be considered as members 
of the sanitary service, and should give it their aid. 
“ M. Em. Thierry, as delegate of the Department of the 
Yonne, thus formulated the opinion of his confreres : f There 
should not be a departmental veterinary surgeon, but only 
veterinarians of districts, elected by their brother practi¬ 
tioners of the district, and together forming a consulting 
committee in serious cases: also having the power of asking 
the assistance of all veterinarians, and of leaving, in urgent 
cases, in the hands of the prefet, the power of consulting 
the nearest veterinary surgeon/ The f veterinarians of 
epizootics’ actually in practice in the five districts of the De¬ 
partment of the Yonne have been named on the proposition 
of the Councils of Hygiene respectively, instead of by their 
peers, which would have been preferable. These veterina¬ 
rians fill in turn, yearly, the office of inspector-general of epi¬ 
zootics, Thus, satisfaction is given to the expressed wish of 
the minister in his circular, that a departmental veterinary 
officer should unify the service of epizootics ; but this post, 
instead of being filled by one man, is filled by the veterina¬ 
rians of the district. This is hadly sufficient, for it causes 
discontent; instead may be proposed (1), that veterinarians of 
epizootics be appointed for two years only ; (2) that the nomi¬ 
nations should fall in turn on all registered veterinary sur- 
