Letter

Sargent to Mr. Neignouret, March 24, 1883

Author

Sargent

Recipient

Mr. Neignouret

Date

March 24, 1883

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 3 in No. 135.]

Mr. Sargent to Mr. Neignouret.

Legation of the United States. Berlin, March 24, 1883.

Sir: I have ordered an investigation to be made by the nearest American consul into the alleged cases of trichinosis at Tilsit, referred to in your letter, and whether, if there are such, they originated or not from eating American pork. I find that all cases of alleged trichinosis are ascribed to American pork, even where the proof is open to any one that they arose from eating raw native or Hungarian pork. Interested parties spread such stories. Frequently these stories are wholly false, there being no sickness. High German scientific authority states that there are not now, and have not been for years, any cases of trichinosis in Germany from eating American pork.

I will promptly inform you of the result of my inquiries.

Respectfully,

A. A. SARGENT.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.