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pense, and. owing to the distance and length of time required to 

 get there — in some cases ten to twelve days — at great risk to. the 

 life of the patient. There is consequently every reason why this 

 preventive measure of the Board, the dog quarantine, should 

 receive the full support of the puhlic as well as of the press. To 

 recommend that a Pasteur laboratory be established here before 

 the actual appearance of the disease would probably be futile, 

 besides which it is a matter for the consideration of the Terri- 

 torial Board of Health exclusively. But there can be no doubt 

 that the disease may gain entrance here in spite of every precau- 

 tion taken, and, if this calamity should occur, the question will 

 immediately be raised. Why was nothing done in time, when we 

 had the disease next door to us ? 



SUMM.XRV. 



Summing up the results of the year's work it may be stated : 



(1) That inspection and testing of all classes of domestic ani- 

 mals before or upon arrival here, and the enforcement of the 

 various quarantine regulations, have again proved effective in 

 preventing the introduction of any of the many diseases of live 

 stock and other domestic animals so prevalent on the mainland 

 of the United States or in its colonies and other countries. 



(2) That glanders among horses and mules, which formerly 

 caused a greater loss than all other diseases of live stock com- 

 bined, has been practically wiped out, only one doubtful outbreak, 

 affecting two animals, having occurred during the year, as com- 

 pared to a hundred outbreaks annually a few years ago. 



(3) That bovine tuberculosis has been reduced to a minimum 

 among the dairy cattle in the City and County of Honolulu and 

 bovine tuberculous infection removed from the milk sup])ly in 

 that district, which work coincides with a reduction of 50% in 

 the mortality among children under five years of age from all 

 forms of tuberculosis, as compared with an increase of 80% in 

 the rest of the Territory where tuberculous cows are still being 

 milked and the milk fed to the children ( facts based <mi Bcxird of 

 Health records). 



(4) That the eradication of bovine tuberculosis on the other 

 islands is being ]mshed as fast as .the deputy territorial veteri- 

 narians can do it and the local health authorities and the milk 

 producers and consumers will furnish and support it, and finally — 



(5) That the live stock industry of the Territory is prosper- 

 ing under the natural and unparalleled favorable conditi(Mis and 

 unprecedented freedom from infectious and contagious diseases 

 of animals, results and conditions which have i^laced the Territory 

 among the leaders in live stock sanitarv work and caused a num- 

 ber of States in the l^nion to emulate or copy the policies, 

 method^ and regulations of this T*)Oard. 



Kespect fully submitted. 



\^ICTOR .\. NORCAARH, 



Sui)erintendent of Animal lndu>try and Territorial Wterinarian. 



