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EDITORIAL. 
In the cities of New York, Boston, Brooklyn, and perhaps 
some others, veterinarians have been added to the Health Boards; 
but the position has been only an honorary one; the services of 
the consulting surgeon being rarely called in requisition. 
In so far as we know, out of the few States which have estab 
lished State Boards of Health, the State of New*Jersey is the only 
one in which a consulting veterinarian is appointed, and that 
honorary position is filled by our esteemed friend, Dr. James 
Corlies. 
There is not a State in the Union, which could not, with 
advantage to itself, follow the example set by our sister State; for 
the services of the skilled veterinarian, in conjunction with the 
State Board, would be of untold value in the preservation of human 
health, and the protection of live-stock interests. 
In all parts of our country, enzootic and epizootic diseases, at 
irregular periods, make their appearances; as note the continued 
frequent outbreaks of contagious pleura*pneumonia in New York 
and New Jersey ; the recent enzooty of parasitic bronchitis near 
Morristown, New Jersey, and the constant ravages of the so-called 
“hog cholera” throughout the great breeding districts of the 
West. 
The great losses which these, and other diseases, have occa¬ 
sioned our live-stock breeders, has brought the question of 
remedying the evil fully before the public mind, and in the light 
of veterinary science we hold that it is not only our right , but that 
the public health, and individual prosperity and wealth, demands 
the presence of the veterinarian in ail Health Boards; not as an 
unpaid official, but with a remuneration proportionate to the 
services rendered. 
We find in all European countries, especially those divided 
into numerous districts, where veterinary surgeons exist in suffi¬ 
cient numbers, that each district has a special veterinary board, 
working under the supervision of one general board; the same 
condition of affairs could and should exist in all our States, for 
veterinarians of education and eminent scientific attainments are 
rapidly increasing in every part of our land, and the public cannot 
afford to longer ignore their services in so important a matter. 
