No. 93.
Mr. Morton
to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
[Extract.]
Legation of
the United States,
Paris, February 8, 1884.
(Received February 25.)
No. 500.]
Sir:
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I am happy to add, that the French Academy of Medicine has, with but one
dissentient voice, voted that the Government may, without injury to the
public health, withdraw the decree prohibiting the importation
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of American salted meats. Herewith
yon will find a printed slip giving the substance of their answer to the
question propounded by the Government. I was informed, by a member of the
Academy, some days since, of the probable result of the inquiry.
Mr. Ferry also made renewed inquiry regarding steps which had been taken to
inaugurate American Federal inspection, the adoption of which system, he
believes, would be the most satisfactory solution of the controversy.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure in No. 500.]
the latest views on pork.
The following are the answers of the French Academy of Medicine to the
questions of the minister of commerce on the subject of the importation
of foreign meat:
- 1.
- The symptoms of typhoid and trichinosis are so dissimilar in
every respect that one epidemic could never be mistaken for the
other.
- 2.
- The importation of foreign salt pork may be fearlessly
authorized by the French Government, as it is clearly proved
that no danger to public health has been caused by such
importation.
- 3.
- Special international laws ought to be enacted by which
guarantees against the importation of diseased meat may be
made.
- 4.
- Possible instructions should be distributed to all vendors of
foreign pork, who ought to be forced by law to hang them up in
their shops in the same way that wineshop keepers exhibit the
statutes of the “Loi d’ivresse publique.”
