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The cities should also require that all auimals killed for 

 local consumption be tested with tuberculin. Furthermore, 

 each city should have a city meat and milk inspector, whose 

 duty shall be to test the dairy herds and all beef cattle with 

 tuberculin and inspect all carcasses at the slaughter houses 

 and market places. 



The inspector should be a graduate veterinarian who has 

 had special insLruction in milk and meat inspection. This 

 work could be done under the supervision of the City Board 

 of Health. 



The State laws necessary for the control and eradication 

 of tuberculosis among domestic animals and to decrease 

 human mortally from tuberculosis, are briefly suggested as 

 follows: 



1st. Alabama should provide for a State Veterinarian 

 and several local assistant State Veterinarians. Said vete- 

 rinarians should investigate all contagious and infectious 

 diseases among domestic animals ; inspect or superintend 

 the inspection of all dairy herds and all animals slaughtered 

 for human food not inspected by city or government inspec- 

 tors. The State Veterinarian could be an ex officio member 

 of the State Board of Health, or work under the supervision 

 of that Board. Said veterinarians should receive pay for 

 time spent in actual service for the State. 



2d. Public Slaughter Houses should be established and 

 all animals should be slaughtered at these places. 



3d. The State should provide means for carrying on this 

 work, and, also, to pay a small indemnity for animals con- 

 demned by the State. 



This could be done by levying a small special tax upon all 

 the domestic animals of the State. The protection given to 

 both animals and man and the increase in value of the ani- 

 mals would more than compensate the owner of stock lor the 



small tax. 



The following are some of the suggestions made by City 

 and State Boards of Health in various parts of the United 

 States for the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis in 

 the human family : 



