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EDITORIAL. 
These remarks are presented with but one object—we may 
be as guilty of neglect as any other member of the association, 
and we feel that we are all more or less to blame. We have 
been giving the subject a great deal of thought, and believe that 
some important reforms ought to be made in our organization at 
once. 
Let us at our next meeting, undertake this work of reform ; 
let us try to discuss the subject as it ought to be discussed, and 
by proper action let us lay the foundation for not only an 
association, but for a congress, worthy of this great country and 
of the immense interests our profession is called to protect. 
FRENCH SANITARY LAW. 
This law, which has been so long expected, has at last passed 
and been signed by the executive head of the French govern¬ 
ment. It is very elaborate and may be usefully studied by all 
who are interested in sanitary police. We publish to-day the 
tirst chapter, designating the contagious diseases likely to come 
uuder the spirit of the law, and the sanitary measures applicable 
to them. 
Among the sixteen articles found in this chapter, the 9th and 
12th will prove interesting ; the first as ordering the inoculation 
of bovines in the localities which are declared infected, and the 
second as forbidding the treatment of animals affected with con¬ 
tagious diseases by unqualified practitioners. 
STATE VETERINARIAN IN ILLINOIS. 
In the July number of the Review, we published the law 
proposed by the legislature of Illinois for the Suppression and 
Prevention of the spread of Pleuro-pneumonia among Cattle, 
Section 1 of which provides for the appointment of a State Vet¬ 
erinarian. 
One of our exchanges brings us the news of the appointment 
to the position of one of the assistant editors of the Review, N. 
