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such appropriations, at least for reimbursement to owners of 

 diseased animals, as has been fully demonstrated in the Terri- 

 tory of Hawaii. Not alone has this fact been demonstrated, but 

 the vastly more important one — that is, that the mortality of 

 children from tuberculosis can be greatly reduced by elimination 

 of milk from tuberculous cows from the public market — has like- 

 wise been proved, by official figures computed independently of 

 this office, viz., the statistics of the Territorial Board of Health 

 and the Anti-Tuberculosis League. That a majority of the 

 States in the United States, as well as most foreign countries, 

 should still adhere to the cumbersome and expensive old subcu- 

 taneous tuberculin test is in itself remarkable, but that the entire 

 principle upon which the ultimate eradication of bovine tuber- 

 culosis nnist be based — that is, that the consumer must pay for 

 the clean milk he demands — should entirely escape the observa- 

 tion of the legislators, is more astounding. It has been proved 

 here that the consumer is perfectly willing to pay one cent per 

 quart more for milk guaranteed free from tubercular infection, 

 and it has also been demonstrated that this small sum is suffi- 

 cient to reimburse the milk producer, as a whole, for all losses 

 sustained on account of condemned cattle destroyed. 



All that is required is education, to make the consumer demand 

 clean milk, and demonstrate to him that through clean milk he 

 will save a far greater amount than the increased cost of the milk 

 through reduced or eliminated doctors' bills, inedicine bills, under- 

 takers' bills and in the general satisfaction of seeing healthy chil- 

 dren and persons around him. Consequently, the large appro- 

 priations for reimbursements, which are now the principal stum- 

 bling blocks upon which most sanitary measures for the jiurpose 

 arc wrecked, will no longer be required. 



Our present method of testing appears to us to be infallible. 

 and has so far been sustained by every post-mortem eyamination 

 made. While unknown up to the present in either the States or 

 Europe, it is so simple that any practitioner may stumble over it 

 at any time and assume the credit which should be due this board. 



The same ap|)lics to the intradermal ni;illoin test for glanders. 

 The United States liureau of Animal Industry has just pronuil- 

 gated -a new regulation, changing from the old subcutaneous test 

 to what is known as the oi)hthalmic test. W hilc the latter is sim- 

 pler, under favorable circumstances, th.m tiie old one, it is, ac- 

 cording to our observations here, a])i)lical)le only in 50 per cent of 

 all cases, in summertime at least. On the other hand, w r have 

 developed here an entirely new test, along the same lines as the 

 intradermal tuberculin test, and which seems also to be infallible. 

 Its only drawback would appear to be that it is too searching, that 

 even the slightest, apparently ennd old nodule, in the lunge, for 

 instance, causes a reaction. Ihit surely no case of glanders can 

 ]X)ssil)ly escape it, and the reaction begins almost innnediately 



