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total of 228 dairy cattle being injected without a single reaction 

 occurring. Though this is a very promising beginning, it hardly 

 justifies the anticipation of greatly improved total results when 

 viewed in connection with the bacterial counts of 35 samples of 

 milk as herewith presented. These counts demonstrate beyond 

 a doubt that a large percentage of the local dairies are disre- 

 garding 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' efforts, now find the disease on the increase. 



In regard to the extension of the bovine tuberculosis control 

 work to the other islands, I am pleased to state that during a 

 recent visit to Maui I found the public disposition in regard 

 thereto greatly improved, many milk producers having read with 

 interest the published accounts of what has been accomplished 

 on Oahu, and signifying their willingness to have their herds 

 tested and to eliminate all diseased animals. The Maui deputy 

 territorial veterinarian has therefore been supplied with 2000 

 doses of tuberculin and the same number of aluminum eartags, 

 and will now pursue this work as fast as his time and opportuni- 

 ties w^ill allow him. In the meantime 10,000 additional doses of 

 tuberculin have been recjuisitipned from the Federal laboratories 

 in Washington, and while notice has been received of the ship- 

 ment of the same, it has not yet arrived, but will, upon receipt, 

 be distributed in adequate quantities to the deputies on Hawaii 

 and Kauai so that any milk producer in the Territory who so 

 desires can have his herd tested and join the ranks of those who 

 are helping to save human lives by furnishing non-infectious 

 milk for the infants and children of these islands. 



Appended to this report will be found a letter from the Chief 

 of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, pertaining to the 

 bovine tuberculosis eradication work in the District of Columbia, 

 with comments upon our work and methods here. Though the 

 Federal authorities, with their unlimited means and facilities, 

 have been engaged at this work for a slightly longer period than 

 we, and though they are paying an indemnity of nearly 75% of 

 the appraised value of all reactors destroyed, they have not yet 

 succeeded in completely eradicating the disease, their last offi- 

 cial record being 1.83 per cent of tuberculous cattle for the year 

 ending June 30, 1913. 



CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS IN HORSE STOCK. 



During the latter part of August what threatened to be a 

 severe outbreak of this disease was reported from Maui, and I he 

 writer, pursuant to the Board's instructions, proceeded to that 

 island on August 31. Upon arrival it was found that six ani- 

 mals had died on one plantation, while one which was found in 



