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per cent, of all cases of generalized tuberculosis among children 

 tmder sixteen years are due to the bovine type of tubercle bacilli, 

 it appears indefensible to allow a single tuberculous animal to re- 

 main in the Islands." 



The record of the tuberculin testing of the dairy herds on 

 Oahu. which resulted, through the destruction of affected ani- 

 mals, in reducing the percentage of disease from 31.26 per cent, 

 at the first test to 5.39 per cent, at the third, is one of which the 

 Territory may well be proud. It points the way to what ought 

 now to be done in the other counties of the Territory, and also 

 to the fact that having gone so far there must be no decrease in 

 continued vigilance through efficient inspection ; that alone is the 

 price of liberty in animal industry as in the other affairs. To 

 accomplish this. Dr. Norgaard repeats the recommendations of 

 the milk commission of 1910, and the sanitary commission of 1911, 

 that the control of milk be vested in the Territorial Board of Ag- 

 riculture and Forestry, in order to secure protection for the entire 

 Territory. 



The chapter on the eradication of glanders is one full of in- 

 terest, especially the almost dramatic account of the suppression 

 of an outbreak of this disease in Waipio Valley, Hamakua, Ha- 

 waii, and the treatment of a suspicious case at Schofield Bar- 

 racks. The reimbursement is advised of owners whose diseased 

 animals have to be killed to insure the safety of the public. 



Perhaps of greater scientific than popular interest is the de- 

 scription of the intradermal tests, with mallein and tuberculin, 

 that having been perfected by the Division of Animal Industry, 

 were successfully applied, respectively in investigations of glan- 

 ders and tuberculosis. Pmt these statements, with those concern- 

 ing sheep and chicken diseases, give the report weight and char- 

 acter. 



PROTECTION FROM R.\B1ES. 



The occurrence of rabies in California was the occasion, in 

 1911, for the passage of a regulation by the Board regarding the 

 quarantine of dogs coming into the Territory. This subject is 

 discussed at length, witli a description of the dog quarantine sta- 

 tion. There is also an account of a newly devised painless method 

 (jf ])utting out of the way, by the use of gas, mangy dogs that it 

 is found necessary to dispose of. Pictures ilhistratc the operation 

 of the "lethal chamber," before and after. 



Following that by Dr. Norgaard are reports from tlie deputy 

 Territorial veterinarians. Dr. H. B. Elliot, ililo; Dr. j. C l*'itz- 

 gerald, Maui, and Dr. A. R. Glaisyer, Kauai. Each takes up 

 the subjects of diseases of live stock and the introduction and 

 breeding of high-class animals. Attention will especially l)c at- 

 tracted to this |)art of the rejiort by the illustrations of thorough- 

 bred horses recently imported into the Territory. 



