TKlCHINvE. 
Ill 
1st. Boards of Health should take means looking to the better 
education of the people in the principles of protective medicine, 
by which is meant a knowledge of the preveyitible sources by 
which disease may be induced. 
2d. Boards of Health should investigate exact researches into 
the hygienic conditions under which swine are reared, and no 
means should be spared in the endeavor to discover the real 
source from which swine obtain their parasites. 
3d. Continued examinations of rats in different parts of the 
country, at piggeries, and at places where no hogs are, or have 
been kept, should be instigated until this rat theory of infection 
is absolutely settled pro or con. 
4th. As the rat-infection hypothesis is at present defended by 
able authorities, and as no absolute proof of its incorrectness at 
present exists, the slaughter of rats should be encouraged, and 
the laws relating to rat-killing modified, for the danger of infec¬ 
tion to man by trichinous pork is not to be weighed for a moment 
with a sentimental sympathy for the pains a rat suffers in being 
killed by a dog. 
5th. All sick swine should be peremptorily isolated from the 
healthy ones under the supervision of a competent (not empirical) 
and educated veterinary surgeon. 
6th. All swine suffering from diarrhoea should not only be 
isolated, but separated individually. The greatest care should be 
taken in cleaning at least twice daily, the pens of such swine, of 
all faecal masses and refuse. 
( a .) The fcecal masses from such swine should be fre¬ 
quently subjected to microscopic examination. 
( b .) On cessation of the catarrhal phenomena, whether 
motory disturbances appear or not, the musculature, tongue 
and muscled of the neck should be harpooned , and subjected 
to microscopic examination. 
7th. All hog pens should be kept scrupulously clean, and the 
turning of compost heaps into hog pens, to be rooted over by the 
swine, should be forbidden by law. 
8th, No contents of water closets, out-houses for human 
beings, or drainage from house-sinks should be allowed to enter 
hog pen§ on penalty of the law* 
