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testing in the City and County of Honolulu from March 21, 

 1910, until the approval of the territorial bovine tuberculosis 

 compensation act on April 23, 1917, has therefore been carried 

 out under authority of and in cooperation with the local Board 

 of Supervisors of which Mr. Bellina is now a member. Beyond 

 the fact that the supervisorial ordinance is a City and County 

 measure and the compensation act a Territorial one, there is 

 little difference in the scope of the tw^o, unless it be that the 

 latter compensates the owner of the tuberculous animals, while 

 the former does not. This, however, can hardly have been the 

 cause of the Supervisor's displeasure when he snapped at the 

 bill that was compensating him. 



So perhaps he was only preparing the Board of Supervisors 

 for action on a new milk ordinance, substituting pasteurization 

 for tuberculin testing! Again quoting the Bulletin of December 

 29, we learn: "Supervisor Bellina said that pasteurization of 

 milk is the only w^ay in which the disease may be eliminated." 

 This Mr. Bellina can hardly have meant, as he must be aware 

 that tuberculosis during 1917 increased to an alarming extent in 

 a number of herds from which the milk was being pasteurized, 

 or in spite of it. Pasteurization under competent official 

 control may possibly be relied on to kill tubercle bacilli in the 

 milk, but it most assuredly will not help controlling or even pre- 

 venting the further spread of tuberculosis in infected herds. 

 And Mr. Bellina may rest assured that should his attempt at 

 preventing our further efforts at controlling and eradicating the 

 disease prove successful, the time will not be distant when there 

 will be no herd free of tuberculosis, and when scrofulosis and 

 intestinal tuberculosis will increase amon.g the children of the 

 Territory. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Victor A. Norgaard, 

 Territorial Veterinarian. 



