THE JHAWAIIAN 



mtSm H AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. XI. OCTOBER, 1914. No. 10 



PUBLICITY FOR PREVENTION. 



In his report for August the Territorial veterinarian returns 

 to the subject of inefificient dairy inspection and sanitary control, 

 in terms that add force to the editorial remarks in the September 

 nuniber. That 228 dairy cattle, the first lot treated in the present 

 annual test for tuberculosis on this island, refused to react is to 

 Dr. Norgaard "a very promising beginning," but he adds to that 

 view the statement that "it hardly justifies the anticipation of 

 greatly improved total results when viewed in connection with the 

 bacterial counts of 35 samples of milk" presented in his report 

 but withheld from publication. He says that these counts "dem- 

 onstrate beyond a doubt that a large percentage of the local 

 dairies are disregarding even the simplest sanitary methods for 

 the production of clean milk, and it is therefore not surprising 

 that those dairies which have not yet succeeded in stamping out 

 bovine tuberculosis, after four years' efiforts, now find the disease 

 on the increase." 



With all the warning that has been given during several 

 months past, in the reports of the Division of Animal Industry, 

 time ought to be about ripe for inflicting on the delinquent dairy- 

 men the penalty of publicity. Before the passage of the milk 

 ordinance and the anti-tuberculosis campaign of the division men- 

 tioned, when the only efforts to ensure honest and clean milk for 

 Honolulu consumers were those of the pure food branch of the 

 Board of Health, there is no doubt that a large part of the 

 battle, so far as it was successful, consisted in the regular publi- 

 cation in the newspapers of the detections and convictions of per- 

 sons who sold milk that was diluted or below standard in nutri- 

 tive contents. Why publicity should not be employed now against 

 those who sell milk charged with noxious bacteria, due to unclean 

 dairying methods, is a question that might well be taken under 

 deliberation. 



