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animal contagia and parasites which affect man as well should be 
placed in the hands of a veterinary committee of the National 
Board of Health organized for that purpose, while the exclusively 
animal plagues and the parasites that affect animals only should 
be committed to an organization drawn from the stock-owners 
and the veterinary profession, and not too large or unwieldy for 
the most prompt and effective action. 
I consider it needless to encumber this statement by any 
further reference to the other animal plagues and parasites, as I 
would not recommend immediate executive action for more than 
the other in addition to the bovine lung-plague. Besides this, the 
work of the special veterinary organization would consist mainly 
in controlling the imports of live stock and in advising as to the 
management of local epizootics which did not immediately 
threaten the nation at large. 
EDITORIAL. 
The effects of the embargo placed upon the importation of 
American live-stock by the English Government, the difficulties 
and embarrassments to which it has subjected our exporters, and 
also the heavy losses which our agriculture must have sustained, 
have, no doubt, induced our Government to endeavor to. have the 
restrictions, if not entirely removed, at least to some extent re¬ 
lieved. With that object in view, such powerful influences have 
been brought to bear, that the subject has been introduced in the 
House of Commons, and action in the matter applied for. 
The news that reached us of the attempt made is accompanied 
by intelligence of the failure which befell the effort. 
This is hardly an unexpected result, for after all, being as we 
are, without veterinary sanitary organization on the one hand, 
and on the other, standing, so much in need of it, by reason of the 
presence of contagious diseases amongst our stock, it was scarcely 
to be hoped that our adventure in this direction would be crown¬ 
ed with immediate success. 
