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with germs and tbey are served at every meal without extra 

 charge, all furnished by the sanitary dairy company, unlimited, 

 from the palace bovine home. Children often go into these barns, 

 and are likewise exposed. What chances are there in cities for 

 people to obtain infection from cattle, as compared to those just 

 pictured in the country? Even the milk is most infective when 

 freshly drawn from the cow, so far as bovine tuberculosis is con- 

 cerned; the only way it can be more dangerous to people when 

 served in cities and towns is through its contamination by bacilli 

 from human consumptives. Yet your health laws all aim to pro- 

 tect the citizen; no one has ever suggested a law to protect farm- 

 ers from infection by bovine tuberculosis. Again, the percentage 

 of deaths from consumption is much higher in cities than in the 

 country or in country towns. I recently wrote to some owners of 

 herds where bovine tuberculosis has been long established and in 

 which the percentage of diseased animals was high, and 1 quote 

 the replies, omitting the addresses in some, but offer in evidence 

 the original letters, which I trust you will inspect. In none of 

 these places was milk sterilized, or any precaution taken to avoid 

 infection. The butter that won the gold medal at the last Paris 

 exposition was the product of a herd largely tuberculous. Thus 

 we are again reminded that " All is not gold that glitters." A 

 part of the scintillation may have been due to bacilli in this case. 

 The following extract is from a lady who has suffered extensive 

 loss. Prior to the visit of the inspectors of the State Board of 

 Health the farm and its herd of cattle were unequaled through- 

 out the State. 



April 4, 1899. 

 Dr. Edward Moore, Albany, N. T.: 



Dear Sir. — Your favor of March 6th received, and beg you will 

 excuse my neglect in not replying sooner, but pressure of other 

 matters crowded it out. In my opinion the actions of the State 

 Board of Health were not only absolutely unnecessary, but ab- 

 solutely criminal, and had I been in a position where I could, I 

 fear I should have talked in Albany until some one was tired. 

 My herd numbered nearly 200 head, young stock and all, and they 



