290 

 TUBEECULOSIS COXTBOL. 



Tested. Passed. Condemned. 



:\I. T. Blazon 3 3 



T. Nakamoto 7 7 



M. P. Moranho ■'. 3 



H. K. Wilder 1 1 



S. I. Shaw 2 2 



Geo. P. Cooke 2 2 



Wahiawa Dairv 4 -i 



M. Freitas . /. 4 4 



M. Salado 2 2 



M. Freitas 2 2 



A total of 30 head were tested during the month, all of which 

 passed the test. Besides the above, several post-mortem examinations 

 were made on previously condemned cattle. 



ANTI EABIC VACCINE TEEATMENT. 



During the past month 19 dogs were given the anti-rabic vaccine 

 treatment. All are apparently doing well and will soon be released from 

 cpiarantine. 



IMPOBTATIOX OF LITE STOCK. 



A total of 54 vessels was met and boarded by the livestock inspector, 

 of which number 10 were found carrying livestock for this port. The 

 following classes of livestock were represented: 



Horses, 3; mules, 79; cattle, 18; swine, 3; dogs, 22; cats, 1; goats, 

 61; poultry, 137 cts. 



EespectfuUy submitted, 



LEOXAED X. CASE, 

 Assistant Territorial Veterinarian. 



THE PROTECTION OF LIVE STOCK IN HAWAII 



AGAINST INFECTIOUS AND CONTAGIOUS 



DISEASES (TI). 



By VICTOR A. NORGAARD, Territorial Veterinarian. 



H emorrJiagic septicemia. Next to anthrax — known to Ptolo- 

 mies as one of the plagues of Aegypt — is another disease of 

 quite modern antecedents. The old German textbooks refer to 

 it as "Wild-und Rinderseuche," wild standing for game and 

 Rinderseuche for disease of cattle. It is a disease far more dan- 

 gerous than anthrax. It was first noticed in these islands on the 

 Parker Ranch in 1909. The writer, being then employed by the 

 federal Bureau of Animal Industry, reported the outbreak, which 

 only covered less than a dozen head of cattle. He was in turn 

 informed that this disease had appeared and been recognized by 

 veterinarians in six of the eastern states. The following year, 

 1910, it was all over the Middle A\'est. The following vear it 



