812 
EDITORIAL. 
inspections—and, again, while the inspection of meat is carried 
ont in many places according to most correct sanitary concep¬ 
tion—it is quite certain that there are many places yet where 
the slaughtering of animals, and of pigs principally, is not 
watched by inspectors, and from which, no donbt, various 
products of a more or less dangerous nature, can find their way 
to the markets and to the table of the most careful housekeeper. 
The fact is that, even with the execution of sanitary measures, 
the same accident may occur. An instance of this : In a large 
governmental school, where students are boarding, one of them, 
one fine morning, observed in a piece of sausage that was on 
his plate, a small, round, whitish mass, the size of a small hazel 
nut. Leaving aside the peculiar looking breakfast, he took it 
to one of his professors for examination. It proved to be a 
tuberculous glandular mass, containing bacilli, which, however, 
by the process of preparing the sausage, had been killed. In¬ 
oculated into guinea-pigs, they were harmless. The investiga¬ 
tion made by the authorities of the school brought out the fact 
tliat the diseased meat came from a private slaughter-house 
submitted to veterinary inspection, and where, according to the 
statement of a butcher, a pig had been killed a while ago which 
had presented a few similar enlargements when it was dressed. 
Moral:—Beware of suspicious-looking round masses which 
may be found in pigs’ meat preparations. 
Assembly Bile 555, introduced by Mr. Pickett, is an effort 
of the quacks to reopen the registration books of New York 
State until January i, 1899, so that any person who has been 
practicing veterinary medicine for three years prior thereto can 
register by making affidavit to that fact. While there is 
scarcely any possibility for such a crime being consummated as 
is contemplated by this bill, the Legislative Committee of the 
New York State Veterinary Medical Society should not neglect 
their duty to make certain that its death is complete and not 
simply anaesthetized for the time being, to be resuscitated when 
the effects of their first protest have passed away. 
