No. 184.
Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Schuyler.
Washington, January 8, 1884.
Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 52, apprising the Department of the action of the Greek Government in calling for information touching our pork product from its consul-general at New York and its legation at Berlin. It is trusted that the inquiry at Berlin may involve a statement of the fact that the local German custom, among some classes, of making the raw native product an article of diet, is accountable for whatever serious disturbances to health have lately occurred there as a result of pork consumption. This custom is not understood to obtain in Greece.
I am, &c.,