﻿Commissioner 
  of 
  Agriculture. 
  521 
  

  

  great 
  resort 
  of 
  consumptives, 
  cattle 
  aro 
  almost 
  immune, 
  tlie 
  abat- 
  

   toirs 
  furnishing 
  about 
  one 
  tuberculous 
  ox 
  in 
  ten 
  thousand 
  killed.^ 
  

   From 
  Tunis 
  (Alix), 
  Algiers, 
  (Sarciron, 
  Plaise), 
  and 
  Senegambia 
  

   (Lenoir) 
  a 
  similar 
  testimony 
  comes. 
  Cattle 
  imported 
  from 
  Europe 
  

   mav 
  die 
  of 
  tuberculosis, 
  which 
  is 
  liable 
  to 
  assume 
  a 
  rapidly 
  fatal 
  

   type; 
  but 
  th-e 
  native 
  cattle, 
  kept 
  in 
  the 
  open 
  air, 
  are 
  practically 
  

   exempt. 
  

  

  Jei*sey 
  cattle 
  in 
  their 
  native 
  island, 
  staked 
  out 
  at 
  pasture 
  all 
  

   the 
  year 
  round, 
  show 
  little 
  or 
  no 
  tuberculosis, 
  whereas 
  the 
  housed 
  

   Jerseys 
  of 
  England 
  and 
  America 
  suffer 
  severely. 
  The 
  cattle 
  of 
  

   our 
  Gulf 
  Coast 
  States, 
  kept 
  on 
  ranches 
  in 
  the 
  open 
  air, 
  are 
  largely 
  

   immune, 
  and 
  the 
  cattle 
  of 
  Columbia, 
  Ecuador, 
  Peru, 
  and 
  the 
  Ar- 
  

   gentine 
  Republic 
  largely 
  escape; 
  but 
  th'e 
  housed 
  dairy 
  cows 
  of 
  our 
  

   southern 
  cities 
  show 
  a 
  very 
  high 
  ratio 
  of 
  consumptives. 
  Consump- 
  

   tion 
  becomes 
  more 
  and 
  more 
  deadly 
  in 
  the 
  southern 
  negro 
  even 
  in 
  

   the 
  country 
  localities, 
  while 
  the 
  outdoor 
  cattle 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  districts 
  

   escape. 
  

  

  The 
  absence 
  of 
  tuberculosis 
  from 
  the 
  sanitarium 
  herd 
  at 
  Saranac 
  

   requires 
  to 
  be 
  explained 
  on 
  a 
  different 
  basis. 
  This 
  herd 
  is 
  housed 
  

   in 
  winter, 
  and 
  infection, 
  once 
  introduced, 
  would 
  have 
  opportunity 
  

   to 
  spread. 
  The 
  absence 
  of 
  tuberculosis 
  is 
  highly 
  complimentary 
  

   to 
  the 
  management 
  of 
  the 
  establishment. 
  But 
  a 
  similar 
  immunity 
  

   is 
  thie 
  rule 
  for 
  all 
  well-managed 
  sanitariums, 
  and 
  not 
  as 
  regards 
  

   cattle 
  only, 
  but 
  man 
  as 
  well. 
  At 
  Argeles 
  no 
  case 
  of 
  tuberculosis 
  

   contagion 
  to 
  attendants 
  occurred 
  in 
  ten 
  years 
  (Eerrand). 
  At 
  

   Soden 
  baths, 
  in 
  a 
  village 
  of 
  1500, 
  there 
  were 
  in 
  thirty-four 
  years 
  

   65 
  deaths, 
  15 
  from 
  consumption 
  (Hopt). 
  At 
  Falken&tein, 
  in 
  fif- 
  

   teen 
  years, 
  one 
  attendant 
  became 
  tuberculous 
  (Jousset). 
  At 
  Gor- 
  

   bersdorf 
  the 
  cases 
  of 
  consumption 
  in 
  the 
  village 
  and 
  environs 
  

   decreased 
  (Knopf). 
  At 
  Brompton, 
  London, 
  in 
  thirty-six 
  years, 
  

   among 
  150 
  attendants, 
  but 
  one 
  became 
  consumptive, 
  though 
  they 
  

   individually 
  served 
  for 
  from 
  fifteen 
  to 
  twenty-four 
  years, 
  and 
  nearly 
  

  

  B 
  Danzon. 
  Etudes 
  Expgrimentale 
  et 
  Cliniques 
  sur 
  la 
  Tuberculose, 
  vol. 
  i, 
  

   p. 
  350. 
  

  

  