Report of State Veterinarian. 55 



TUBERCULOSIS QUARANTINE REGULATIONS UPHELD. 



On December 2, 1913, the temporary injunction restraining 

 the State Veterinarian from enforcing the cattle tuberculosis 

 quarantine regulations came up for hearing in the Circuit Court 

 of St. Louis. The temporary injunction was dissolved, and later 

 the quarantine regulations were declared just and valid. 



During the past two years these regulations have been 

 evaded in different ways, especially by shipments of cattle from 

 the states of Illinois and New York. Either through fraudulent 

 inspections by veterinarians or through the "plugging" of 

 diseased cattle to make them pass inspection by an honest 

 veterinarian, a large number of tuberculous cattle have been 

 shipped from both of these states. The veterinarians of the 

 State of Illinois are making an honest effort to purge their ranks 

 of those who would pass tuberculous cattle for sound. So far as 

 I know, no particular effort is being made in the State of New 

 York along this line. Under present conditions, it seems abso- 

 lutely necessary to exercise the authority given under Rule V 

 of our quarantine regulations and hold all dairy and breeding 

 cattle from the states of Illinois and New York for a retest 

 ninety days after arrival in this State. Orders to this effect 

 have been sent out to all railroad companies and deputies in 

 this State. It has been found that some are shipping cattle 

 into this State ostensibly for pasturing, feeding or immediate 

 slaughter and subsequently selling them for dairy and breeding 

 purposes. During the coming year we will attempt to keep 

 check on cattle coming into the State without the tuberculin test, 

 and if it is found that this liberal provision of the regulations is 

 being abused it may be necessary to require the tuberculin test 

 of all female cattle. 



It is to be regretted that a few unprincipled dealers and 

 veterinarians persist in a course which eventually brings more 

 or less hardship and inconvenience upon those who are honest 

 and efTicient. 



The observations of the inspection of cattle for interstate 

 shipment, and especially of dairy cattle, show plainly that we 

 need in all of the states a strict law regulating the practice of 

 veterinary surgery. The time is now at hand when everyone who 



