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carcasses for beef if they pass inspection, is in harmony with the Federal 

 meat inspection service and also with the meat inspection regulations of 

 other countries. Large numbers of animals affected with localized 

 tuberculosis are passed for food annually by our government inspectors. 

 In Germany the meat of more extensively tuberculous animals is sterilized 

 and then sold for food at a lower price. 



The Wisconsin law permits the Live Stock Sanitary Board to sell 

 reacting animals to slaughter-houses having a Federal inspection. By 

 this method thousands of dollars are saved annually by the State toward 

 the payment for the reacting animals from the moneys received for 

 cattle that pass the inspection. It is hoped that our legislature will 

 provide for the economic disposition of animals that are slightly infected 

 with tuberculosis. The Board of Health regulations in many places 

 prohibit the sale of meat from infected animals, no matter how slight the 

 infection and yet they do not provide for a meat inspection. This 

 excludes the legal use for food of animals that react to tuberculin though 

 in good condition, but it does not prohibit the sale of animals not known 

 to be infected at the time of slaughter. This leaves the passing on 

 the unwholesomeness of the carcass to the butcher, who is interested 

 financially and who is not skilled in the diseases of animals. It is 

 equitable to give the small owner the same privilege of disposing of 

 his animal or animals that is accorded the large packers who have 

 government inspection. The State of Pennsylvania has state inspectors 

 who examine the carcasses of cattle that are slaughtered for beef after the 

 tuberculin test, when they are killed in local slaughter houses. This pro- 

 tects the people and affords an exit for the slightly infected animals. 



(3) The Bang method. The Bang method for handling tuberculosis is 

 the procedure recommended and carried into effect in Denmark by 

 Professor Bang of the Copenhagen \^eterinary College.* 



The object of this method is to replenish a tuberculous herd with as 

 little loss as possible. It requires that all animals that show physical 

 symptoms of the disease shall be destroyed. Those which give a tuber- 

 culin reaction but which exhibit no evidence on physical examination of 

 their being tuberculous, are isolated. They are kept for breeding purposes. 

 The reacting animals are carefully watched and if any of them develop 

 obvious symptoms of the disease they are slaughtered. The stables 

 from which the diseased animals are removed are thoroughly disinfected. 



The method as originally proposed has been modified from time to 

 time in accord with increased knowledge of the disease and the conditions 

 under which it exists. Its success lies in the fact that it conforms to 



* Bans. B. The stru£?glc with tuberculosis in Denmark. The Veterinarian, 

 Vol. LXVII (1895), P- 688. 



Bang, B. Tuberculosis of cattle. Penn. Dept. Agri., Appendix Bull. 75, 1901. 



