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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
newly created office along sanitary lines to be very well paid, 
especially in countries where it is just being inaugurated. They 
should be content with a meagre salary, and should also be con¬ 
tent, if appointed, with accomplishing apparently small results, 
gradually extending their influence and the value of their office. 
The public is likely to be revolted with sudden onsets of 
officialism in any direction, and soon rebel and dispose of it en¬ 
tirely. There are therefore two sides to the question, and the 
conservative one, it seems to me, should prevail. I hope the 
paper will receive the publication to which I have alluded. 
Dr. Wilson : I would like to ask the author of this paper 
which he thinks is the more likely to produce the typhoid 
fever, diphtheria, etc., to which he referred, tuberculosis, or the 
uncleanliness of which he spoke. 
Dr. Netherton : Well, I think scarlet fever and diphtheria 
are more frequently contracted as a result of the impurities in 
the water and its adulteration than from the tubercular trouble. 
Dr. Peters: I was interested in Dr. Nether ton’s paper, and 
I hold the same views that Dr. Stewart does. At the Omaha, 
Neb., meeting Dr. Ramacciotti gave a very excellent talk on 
this subject. He gave the history of milk inspection in that 
state, and throughout his talk you could see how he nursed the 
municipality to the inspection. He did not achieve his object 
by the method of the alarmist, but with sound, convincing 
argument he accomplished a great many things. He admitted 
that the system was by no means perfect, but stated that he 
was in hopes of having passed a new ordinance which he had 
framed and which he believed would improve the service. Now 
I am a firm believer in that way of doing things. The veteri¬ 
narians of Lincoln have long felt that they should do some¬ 
thing. They looked to the' experiment station to take the 
initiatory step. The men engaged in the business there had fre¬ 
quent consultations with the experiment station authorities, 
and we also had consultations with the city authorities, and we 
found that the time was not ripe, but this small corps of veteri¬ 
narians there kept up their little fight on the quiet, and lately 
we have received invitations to talk to the City Improvement 
Society, which is composed of ladies, and before that body I 
had the pleasure of talking in a popular way regarding the 
cleanliness of the city, proper sanitary precautions, and inci¬ 
dentally touched upon the question of the inspection of milk. 
I told them of the number of cases the veterinarians had found 
and how powerless they were, and it seems that this organiza- 
