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self felt in that owners are desiring more frequent tests and are 

 more willing to cooperate with the Board in its efforts toward 

 the entire eradication of tuberculosis. The considerable opposi- 

 tion which has been experienced in certain quarters has appar- 

 ently melted away, as the dairymen are realizing the efforts the 

 Board is making to help them and to establish for this Territory 

 a safe milk supply. 



The condemned cattle from the Kuliouou dairy showed a con- 

 siderable amount of disease on post mortem examination and 

 three carcasses had to be condemned entire as unfit for human 

 consumption. 



On the other hand the condemned cattle from the \\'aialae 

 dairy, though large in number, showed surprisingly little disease 

 and, while all showed the presence of tuberculosis in one or more 

 organs in the body, none had to be condemned. 



A few showed open lesions in the lungs and undoubtedly acted 

 as spreaders of the infection. With their elimination from the 

 herd together with the thorough sanitary measures now in force 

 at this particular dairy the time is near at hand when further 

 losses from this disease should cease. 



The intrapalpebral tuberculin test, a method originated and 

 practised in this Territory for a number of years, has again dem- 

 onstrated its efficiency in accurately detecting the tuberculous 

 animal. This together with the helpful influence of the Com- 

 pensation Act should, in a comparatively short time, eliminate 

 tuberculosis from the herds of this Territory. 



ANTHRAX. 



This disease has ceased to be an active menace to the live stock 

 industry of this Territory as far as the islands of Oahu and Maui 

 are concerned. All quarantine restrictions have been removed 

 from these two islands and the inter-island shipment of live stock 

 allowed without permit except such as may come from the in- 

 fected areas on Maui. 



As far as this island is concerned, considering the prompt and 

 very effective measures taken in the beginning, I think we can 

 safely say that anthrax has been entirely eradicated. The amount 

 of infection still remaining in the soil on Maui where the disease 

 made its appearance is problematical, but considering its early 

 diagnosis and the fact that serum was at hand for immediate use, 

 the prompt burning of all carcasses and the effective quarantine 

 measures established, it is probably slight and the remaining re- 

 strictions now in force can soon be done away with. 



At Hanalei, Kauai, we have a much more serious condition. 

 Being the first place in which the disease broke out in this Ter- 

 ritory there was no serum and vaccine here with which to combat 

 it. Due to the fact that quite a few animals died before any 

 report was made of it and to the fact that nearly a hundred car- 

 casses were buried before burning operations commenced, the 



