EDITORIAL. 
669 
FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF MEAT INSPECTION. 
We print elsewhere an account of a public meeting held in 
Philadelphia, under the auspices of the Woman’s Health Pro¬ 
tective Association, at which the subject of the meat supply of 
that city was made the occasion for very full consideration, and 
which has caused a great awakening of public interest in the 
vital question, and which can but result in the greatest good 
to the health and wealth of that and other municipalities. The 
meeting was largely the outcome of agitation started by some 
of her public-spirited veterinarians, who not only made ad¬ 
dresses themselves and clearly showed the sources of contamina¬ 
tion and the inadequacy of present methods, but they induced 
many prominent veterinarians from other points to lend the 
strength of their presence and arguments for the furtherance of 
the objects. Among those who addressed the meeting were Dr. 
D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Wash¬ 
ington ; Dr. A, W. Clement, State Veterinarian of Maryland ; 
Dr. H. D. Gill, of the New York Health Board, and Dr. R. S. 
Huidekoper, President of the Veterinary Medical Association of 
New York County. 
The effort, we are assured through a letter from Dr. W. 
Horace Hoskins, who was largely instrumental in the success of 
the meeting, “ has resulted in a movement which will terminate 
in a better system of meat inspection and the removal of many 
of the features that are now so objectionable in the system that 
is now in force.” 
Such a concerted movement will do more good than all the 
pages that can be written on the subject, and the example of 
the Philadelphians should be followed by the veterinarians of 
every city where lax inspection laws maintain, and that means 
in every city of the Union. 
PROFESSIONAL COURTESY. 
That veterinary science is a progressive science no one will 
deny who is at all familiar with the vast amount of original re¬ 
search and discovery that is given to the world each year by its 
