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in French, on “Meat Inspection and Abattoirs,” in which he 
pointed out the defects of the inspection as at present carried on 
at the abattoirs, urged the necessity of ante-mortem, as well as 
post-mortem examination by scientific inspectors, who should be 
microscopists, so as to enable them to detect the presence of para¬ 
sitic diseases. He noticed at length the thorough system followed 
by the governments of France and Germany, and in conclusion 
urged that the inspectors should be well paid, so that they should 
be independent, and they should have the moral support of the 
community, besides the proper legal authority,to carry out thorough 
inspection in the public interest. The paper was a very able and 
scientific exposition of the subject, which was listened to with 
marked attention, and called forth eulogistic remarks by Aider- 
man Fairbairn, Mr. Bickerdyke, Mr. Morgan, and others, who 
urged improvements in the by-laws, giving inspectors power of 
confiscation, moving cattle markets to the abattoirs, having cattle 
kept twenty-four hours before being killed. 
Dr. McEachran, in a few remarks on the subject, referred to 
its great importance. One of the most important duties of a 
College like this was to prepare the students to become thorough 
sanitarians. Meat inspection was a most important sanitary ques¬ 
tion. There could be no doubt that scientific inspection was the 
best mode. Years ago it was laughed at, but to day it was gain¬ 
ing many supporters. He referred to the fact that pork from the 
United States was shut out from Germany and France, because 
those countries knew that there was no inspection in the United 
States. It remained for Canada, Dr. McEachran said, to open up 
this field, and thus gain an immense trade with those countries. 
He said that scientific inspection would be the very backbone of 
the butchers’ trade, who would lose nothing by its adoption. He 
expressed the opinion that the inspectors should all have the 
power of confiscation, as without this power their inspection was 
worthless, and he hoped that the agitation for this improvement 
would be kept up until it was obtained. He was also of opinion, 
that slaughtering outside the city limits should be abolished, and 
that fio animal should be slaughtered for human food until it had 
rested twenty-four hours. 
