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sumers may require further action on the subject by the Legis- 

 ature. 



Much attention has been given to the enforcement of the law 

 requiring proper sanitary conditions in dairy barns. There has 

 been a steady and vast improvement in this direction since the 

 enactment of the statute. In addition to prosecuting offenders, 

 efforts have been made, and with much success, to convince 

 owners of dairies that it pays to provide clean and comfortable 

 quarters for their cattle. 



A like improvement has been brought about by the efforts of 

 the Department in the sanitary arrangements of cheese factories 

 and creameries throughout this division. Proprietors of these 

 establishments have been made to realize that their products 

 must be sent to market not only free from adulterants, but that 

 the law requires that they shall be clean and uncontaminated by 

 the germs of disease. Agents have been instructed that no 

 duty is more important than to enforce absolute cleanliness in 

 all places where articles of food are prepared. 



Many inspections have been made in all parts of the division 

 with a view to ascertaining the healthfulness of horses, cattle 

 and hogs. Not a single case of infectious disease has been dis- 

 covered. 



On March 20, 1901, you called my attention by letter to re- 

 ported outbreaks of rabies in various portions of this division, 

 and particularly in the villages of Churchville and Honeoye 

 Falls. Similar reports had come to my notice prior to your 

 communication and had been thoroughly investigated by agents 

 Bernhard, Langdon and Quigley, so that I was able to assure 

 you on March 26th that there was no proof that a single case of 

 the disease had occurred in this division. My conclusion was 

 confirmed by the fact that no genuine case of the malady was 

 discovered at any later period, while the alarm produced by 

 sensational rumors speedily subsided. At about the same time 

 the subject was investigated by the board of supervisors of 

 Monroe county and the common council of the city of Rochester. 

 The former body, after much deliberation, dropped the subject, 



