American Veterinary Review, 
JULY, 1885. 
EDITORIAL. 
VETERINARY SANITARY SERVICE—QUARANTINE STATIONS. 
Sanitary veterinary science, as recognized in the LTnited States, 
can scarcely be said to have passed its infancy, and no one need 
be surprised at the immaturity of its development. It is compar¬ 
atively but a recent period since our people have learned to ap¬ 
preciate the dangers of contagious diseases amongst our cattle, 
dangers not alone affecting our own nation, but involving other 
nationalities as well. Our experience is therefore so new in the 
use of means for counteracting these dangers, and our attempts 
to organize and apply the proper veterinary assistance so imper¬ 
fect and so partial, that the most sanguine expectations can 
scarcely hope to find at this early date, a veterinary sanitary ser¬ 
vice which can be compared to similar organizations as they exist 
in the older European countries; those, for example, of England, 
France and Germany. The country has, however, been obliged 
to take some action on the subject, and several attempts to ac¬ 
complish some useful results have been made, notably by the 
Treasury Cattle Commission, and the Bureau of Animal Industry. 
These have been most prominent in the movement, and the 
quality of the work they have done is now indicated in records, 
which the reader can consult and study for himself. 
