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pork containing the encysted larvae of the trichina spiralis, a 
worm which inhabits the intestines of the pig. 
There are many other diseases and conditions of animals 
which are transmissible to man, such as tetanus, diphtheria, 
certain fevers, flukes, linsea, titana, soscapli and others. Many 
of these conditions can be almost entirely prevented by suffi¬ 
cient sanitary police regulations : Meat and milk inspection, by 
appointing competent men in each district to examine and 
watch over the animals in that district. For the successful 
carrying out of preventive medication it will be necessary for 
the educated veterinary surgeon and physician to work hand in 
hand. It will be hard to draw the line in the near future where 
the physician’s work leaves off and the work of the veterinary 
surgeon begins in the great army of disease fighters whose 
motto will be : u United we succeed, divided we fail in the prac¬ 
tice of preventive medicine.” 
AN ARRANGEMENT FOR MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP OF 
SLAUGHTER-HOUSES. 
By Leonard Pearson, V. M. D., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Read before the evening session of the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation, March, 1899. 
The American people are the greatest meat eaters of the 
world, with the possible exception of the inhabitants of Austra¬ 
lia. The beef-eating British consume nearly as much meat per 
capita as the Americans and after these people we have the fol¬ 
lowing arranged in the order of the amount of meat con¬ 
sumed per capita and per annum : the inhabitants of Sweden, 
Norway, France, Germany, Belgium and Holland, Austria, 
Hungary, Russia, Spain and Italy. The average annual con¬ 
sumption of meat in this country is about 115 pounds. The 
table that I have just given seems to support the assertion that 
the capacity of a people is indicated largely by the amount of 
flesh consumed. 
Philadelphia uses about 125,000,000 pounds of meat every 
