Report on trichinae and trichinosis / United States Marine Hospital Service ; prepared, under direction of the supervising Surgeon-General, by W.C.W. Glazier.

  • United States. Marine Hospital Service.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Report on trichinae and trichinosis / United States Marine Hospital Service ; prepared, under direction of the supervising Surgeon-General, by W.C.W. Glazier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    No. 411.] United States Consulate-General, Berlin, June 23, 1879. Sir : The agitation in this country against American hams and pork sides (bacon) having now reached this city also, where the consumption of the same by the middle and laboring classes of the population has become so extensive as almost entirely to exclude the home article, I beg to bring the fact to the notice of the Department with a view of having impressed anew on the parties shipping these goods from the United States to Germany the necessity of sending only such as are en- tirely free from trichinae. By that course alone will they be sure of avoiding all annoyance and loss. A copy of the notice given by the royal police department here in relation to the subject, together with an English translation of the same, is herewith inclosed. I will add that an ordinance has been agreed upon by the municipal authorities of this city and the royal police department making the microscopic inspection of all kinds of pork offered for sale obligatory. Said ordinance will, I am advised, be very shortly promulgated. I am, sir, your obedient servant, H. KREISMAN, Consul-General. Hon. Assistant Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. [Inclosure to No. 411.—Translation.] Of late large quantities of American hog hams and pork sides with lean meat still remaining on the same have been brought into the mar- ket at Berlin. As has been proved by microscopic inspections, many of these hams and pork sides have been found to contain trichime. Said fact is hereby brought to the notice of the public by enjoining on the same the urgent necessity of having an assurance in purchasing this • kind of meat that the same has been subjected to a microscopic inspec- tion. Berlin, June 16, 1879. Royal Police Department. YON MADAI. No. 214.] United States Consulate, Christiania, June 6, 1879. Sir: In my dispatch No. 213 of May 24 I reported that a compulsory examination of all kinds of American pork was to be enforced from the 1st of June.