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inspection in the city of St. Joseph, I would suggest that the 
city board of health be approached in the matter and try and se¬ 
cure their co-operation. 
. Dr - Aether ton : During this last spring I circulated a pe¬ 
tition among the physicians and each of them signed it. It 
was addressed to the mayor and the city board of health, asking 
that an inspector be appointed, a veterinary graduate. I think 
I had something like 75 signatures of physicians and that of 
quite as many laymen. It was referred to the board of health 
and was pigeon-holed. They did not seem to take any interest 
in it. They had a food inspector in this city up to last year, a 
layman who never did anything, and the office was abolished. 
This fact was alleged as a reason for their failure to act upon 
the petition which I presented. However, I think that in the 
coming spring, if we have the co-operation of the physicians 
and. the board of health, we will have inspection established 
again, and it would be much easier if we could get this on a fee 
system. I do not know of a precedent for such a svstem, but 
lack of funds for such a purpose was urged by even those who 
weie favorable to the proposition. But, as I have already said, 
I think if the matter is agitated until the end of this fiscal year 
we can get some money appropriated and have the office re¬ 
established next spring. 
Dr. Coopei': The only case I recall now regarding public 
sentiment relative to milk inspection occurred in Iowa the past 
summer. Almost every town in that particular section has 
from one to three creameries, and some one had made complaint 
about a man having tuberculous cows who was selling milk to 
one of the creameries. It was found upon investigation that 
the man had two or three cows affected with tuberculosis. He 
told the inspector that another man a short distance from there 
who was milking from 50 to 100 cows had a bad herd. This 
herd was. examined and 30 cows were condemned. The water 
was furnished by a spring surrounded by hills, and around this 
was his pasture, and in rainy weather the water from the hills was 
mingled with the water of the spring. In the winter his stables 
were crowded very full, and are not very cleanly. Not long 
after the quarantine had been established a local clergyman 
wrote a letter to the state inspector asking him to lift the quar¬ 
antine of the rich man’s cows, but saying nothing of the other 
man ! The owner of the cows was quite wealthy and the 
clergyman’s influence would outweigh that of any half dozen 
physicians or veterinarians you could get together. Where 
