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as the rule is enforced conscientiously there is little or no danger 

 of fresh infection gaining an entrance here. It therefore re- 

 mains to control the present outbreak with the means at hand, 

 that is, segregation, disinfection and preyentive or curative in- 

 jections of hog cholera serum along the lines recommended by 

 the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry. 



A request from the deputy Territorial veterinarian of Kauai 

 for the appointment of four quarantine guards by this Board for 

 the purpose of preventing the spread of the disease beyond the 

 Koloa district was referred to the committee on animal industry, 

 which, at a meeting held on July 22nd. directed me to instruct 

 him to deal with the outbreak along the lines indicated above, 

 and calling his attention to the requirement of the regulations 

 of this Board to the effect that all expenses in connection with 

 the control and suppression of local outbreaks of infectious and 

 contagious diseases must be borne by the owner, at least so far as 

 the segregation, disinfection, destruction and disposal of dis- 

 eased or dead animals are concerned, and that, if it is considered 

 necessary to appoint guards, the same must be provided by the 

 local health authorities or by the owners requiring them. The 

 revised statutes of the Territory as supplemented by the regula- 

 tions of the Board provide the necessary authority for effectively 

 dealing with outbreaks of animal diseases, and the violation of 

 an order to quarantine or segregate diseased animals carries with 

 it consequences sufficiently severe to obviate the necessity of spe- 

 cial quarantine guards so long as the outbreak is under the imme- 

 diate supervision of an officer of this Board. It should, however, 

 be borne in mind that this is the first time that the de])uty on 

 Kauai has had occasion to deal with an acute infectious disease 

 of an epidemic nature, and that undoubtedly he was not aware 

 of the authority vested in him when making the above mentioned 

 rcciuest. So far as is known the disease has not made its ap- 

 pearance on any of the other islands to this date, and with the 

 ])reventive measures taken for its suppression there is every rea- 

 son to expect that further losses will be limited to scattered in- 

 dividual cases, or to herds where no effort is l)cing made to pro- 

 tect the animals against it. 



Control of Boi'iiic 7'uhcrciilosis. 



This work has been cntireh' in \hv hands of the assistant Ter- 

 rit'irial \'cterinarian in ulm.sc rt'i)ort the details of the same will 

 be found. The testing of the dairy herds in the city of 1 lono- 

 Inlu, which has now been finished, while showing a com])aratively 

 small flecrease in tlic iininber of affected animals, as com]>ared 

 to that recorded in the earlier tests, has nevertheless shown re- 

 sults which fully demonstrate the value of the work a^ well as 

 the reliatiility of the methods employed. The coini)lc-te eradica- 

 tion of the disease cannot be U)oked for until tlu- more treqnent 



