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S. S. Lurline, San Francisco — 1 horse; Ant. Schmer; 4 cts. 

 poultry, J. C. Rued; 1 ct. doves, E. O. Hall & Son; 7 Holstein 

 cows, 1 Holstein bull, 2 hogs, Kamehameha Schools. 



S. S. Wilhelmina, San Francisco — 1 dog-, Mrs. C. Meade; 15 

 cts. poultry. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Leonard N. Case, 

 Assistant Territorial Veterinarian. 



BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS. 



Its Relation to Public Health ; Municipal and Territorial 

 Control and Suppression; Economic Importance. 



{Paper read by Dr. V. A. Norgaard, Territorial Veterinarian, 

 before the Hazvaiian Medical Association, November, tgij.) 



Mr. President, Members of the Association : 



The past year has seen but insignificant changes as regards 

 the medical profession's standpoint relative to the subject under 

 discussion. Practically all scientific men consider the question 

 as having been definitely settled in favor of the view that bovine 

 tuberculosis is transmissible to human beings, and especially to 

 children. 



What remains to be determined is the actual percentage of 

 cases due to the bovine infection, or, in other words, the public 

 health importance of the bovine disease. 



In spite of the general acceptance of the theory of transmis- 

 sibility, there occasionally appear articles opposing this view, and 

 especially in countries where the work of eradication of bovine 

 tuberculosis is being pushed. In Sweden for instance, where 

 Prof. John Wennerholm now for several years has endeavored 

 to reduce the number of infected herds by means of the Bang 

 system of segregation, an article has appeared covering the 

 autopsy reports of not less than 7,630 children, which died dur- 

 ing the first year of life at the Stockholm Municipal Hospital 

 during the years 1842 to 1911. Six hundred and. twenty-three 

 cases showed tuberculous lesions, of which number only six 

 showed lesions exclusively in the intestines and mesenteric glands. 

 In thirty years' experience, says the writer, (Prof. Wedin in 

 Arch. f. Kinderh., 1913) he has never seen a case of tuberculosis 

 which he could ascribe to infection through milk. 



This paper is quoted by Dr. Ravenel at the last meeting of the 

 American Association of Medical Milk Commissions for the pur- 

 pose of warning against that sort of testimony. ''Bacteriological 

 examination." he continued, "has proven the impossibility of de- 

 tecting bovine tuberculosis clinically. It is also impossible to 



