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should be done at State expense and by a special disinfecting 

 corps under a trained, careful and thorough foreman. 



nth. Attendants on cattle or other meat producing animals, 

 who show any chronic disease of the air passages, lungs or bowels, 

 should be examined for tuberculosis, by the municipal or town 

 health officer, and their expectoration should be tested bacterio- 

 logicall}'. If found to be tuberculous they must be forbidden to 

 continue this occupation. 



12th. Though herds have been tested and guaranteed sound, 

 such guarantee must lapse as soon as new animals are introduced 

 into them from public markets or untested herds. The guaran- 

 tee may be preserved by having all such additions tested by tuber- 

 culin before they are added to the herd. 



13th. In making tests with tuberculin the inspector will, as a 

 rule, omit cases that are suffering acutely from other diseases or 

 from advanced general tuberculosis, or that are approaching 

 oestrum or parturition, such cases must be secluded and tested 

 later when there is no such source of fallacy. 



14th. All deaths in inspected and attested herds should be 

 promptly reported to the government veterinary inspector of the 

 district, who should make a careful post mortem examination and 

 if he finds tuberculosis in even a latent form, the whole herd 

 should be again tested with tuberculin. 



Defects of the Existing New York I^aw. 



New York is to be highly commended for taking an advanced 

 position in the suppression of tuberculosis by process of law. It 

 is to be regretted, however, that excellent intentions have been 

 somewhat marred from a lack of acquaintance with the diseases 

 of the lower animals, b}^ those who have drawn and those who 

 directed the administration of the law. It may not be altogether 

 useless to name some of the more obvious defects in the law as 

 hitherto in force. 



A. The Provision for Two Separate Veterinary Sani- 

 tary Boards. 



By existing law tuberculosis and glanders are dealt with by.the 

 State Board of Health, while all other diseases affecting the same 



