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voiced in the enclosed correspondence. As will be seen it is not 

 alone tuberculosis but also hog cholera that require his time and 

 energy, two infectious and contagious diseases, the responsibility 

 for which cannot be avoided by this Board. That glanders has 

 been completely eradicated has to a certain extent diminished the 

 fear of animal epidemics among the owners of large numbers of 

 draft animals, which, in connection with the reduction in the num- 

 ber of these, resulting from the introduction of motor power, has 

 already manifested itself in a considerable reduction in Dr. El- 

 liot's income ; and with the prospect of free sugar next year it 

 may be further reduced. While Dr. Elliot mentions his official 

 salary as $150.00 per month, and considers it satisfactory, it must 

 be borne in mind that the Hilo District is the only one where this 

 official $100.00 per month salary is still maintained, both Maui 

 and Kauai insisting on lumping said salary with the veterinarians' 

 pay for professional services. With the eradication of glanders 

 in the Islands, there remains only the danger of introducing new 

 cases of glanders with imported stock, for the inspection anCi 

 (|uarantining of which the plantations can hardly be expected to 

 pay. 



The work now before us, as clearly set forth in Dr. Elliot's 

 letters, consists chiefly in the eradication of tuberculosis and hog 

 cholera, both of v/hich diseases must go if the agriculturist is to 

 make any kind of a success here. Dr. Elliot suggests that a Ford 

 car be furnished him by the Board and its upkeep provided for, 

 the scope of work he proposes to undertake and all of which has 

 my unqualified support and approval, being fully explained in his 

 letters ; to which I can only add, that the Island of Hawaii is for- 

 tunate in having so able and energetic a district veterinarian, and 

 the I'oard of Agriculture and Forestry equally so in being so un- 

 usually well re])resented on the big island. 



A highly efficient milk inspection service has already l)een inau- 

 gurated in the Hilo district, by Dr. Elliot cooperating with the 

 local Board of Health ; in fact no local milk ordinance is in effect 

 there, it being held that the Territorial Board of Health statute 

 provides sufficient authority upon which to base and enforce effi- 

 cient milk and dairy inspection, while the supervisors are glad to 

 be relieved of this responsil)ility and ex|)cnse. 



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In regard to the action contemplated by the Uo.-ird at its last 

 meeting, that is, a periodical bacterial coinit of all milk jiroduced 

 here for human consumi)tion, and the publication of such counts 

 for the information of the milk consuming jjublic. 1 have to say 

 that the Division of Animal Industry can undertake the work at 

 slight exjiensc for additional apparatus and sujiplies, s;iy $10.00 

 per month, i'.ut whether to undertake this work which is strictly 

 a milk insi)ection feature. re(|uired by the local milk ordinance 



