The Hog vs. Human Life.
By Editor
ONE pig alone was the cause of the death of 66 persons and the serious illness of 337 others in the city of Magdeburg some time ago. The pig was afflicted with trichinosis, and the people ate the pork in a partly raw state. The police commissioner of Magdeburg has taken this awful incident as the occasion to publish a warning to pork-eaters. The public is urgently cautioned against the use of raw pork and reminded that only a thorough cooking or roasting of the same, or the preparations thereof—such as sausages, head-cheese, etc.—will kill the trichinae. When cooked or roasted in large pieces, it is further recommended to make incisions in the pork about an inch apart, in order to thoroughly boil or roast it.—S. F. Chronicle. [It would seem that the very presence of this deadly parasite ought to be enough to teach people not to eat pork; but no; they will deliberately go about to "make incisions," etc., by which it may be cooked better so that they can eat the more of it. What a dainty mess a mass of cooked deadly worms must be! Well, well! Anybody who is so overwhelmingly dull, as is revealed in such a state of things, would hardly be taught to let the deadly stuff alone by anything short of death from the disease engendered by it. Yet it seems to us that that is a poor way to learn it.—Ed.]