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as an infectious and contagious disease transmissible to human 

 being's and as such dangerous to pubHc health. That this has not 

 been done before was due to the great prevalence of the disease 

 and the lack of funds wherewith to indemnify the owners of dis- 

 eased cattle. It was therefore left to the dairymen gradually to 

 clean their herds of infected animals and obtain remuneration for 

 them through an increase in the price of milk. In this mamier 

 nearly ninety per cent of the milk producers on Oahu have grad- 

 ually cleaned their herds, and there remains but a limited number 

 who still harbor the infection and who seem to find it profitable to 

 do so. When therefore a bill providing for the indemnification 

 of the milk producers still having infected animals in their pos- 

 session, was introduced before the last legislature it was actually 

 defeated by these same dairymen for whose benefit it was pro- 

 mulgated. 



Under these circumstances it would not seem necessary for this 

 Board to be deterred any longer, as regards the complete eradica- 

 tion of the disease, at least if the statement on the basis of which 

 the indemnification bill was defeated is proven correct, i.e., that 

 ninety per cent of the local milk producers did not want any in- 

 demnification. It must also be borne in mind that the dairymen 

 who have sacrificed varying numbers of their cattle in order to 

 clean their herds and comply with the local regulations are enti- 

 tled to protection against reinfection, or at least those who desire 

 to continue to keep their herds clean, and if such protection should 

 be required of this Board and the owner of a neighboring infected 

 or untested herd should refuse to have his animals tested and the 

 reactor destroyed it is well within the powers of this Board to 

 place a rigid quarantine on the infected premises, which would 

 mean the complete segregation of all the animals as well as their 

 products, whether milk or manure. 



Before resorting to such drastic measures, however, it is to 

 be hoped that the recent opposition to this Board's tuberculosis 

 control work will take the trouble to familiarize themselves with 

 the various statutes and regulations now in force and pertaining 

 to this subject, and will realize that the milk-consuming public 

 will never agree to a return to milk from tuberculous cows for 

 their children, regardless of the form in which it may be served. 

 While pasteurized milk is safe enough, if properly pasteurized un- 

 der official supervision, the best authorities agree that it is never 

 safe to rely on pasteurization, and where there is so little infec- 

 tion left as is the case here, the only sane and safe way of deal- 

 ing with it is by eradication. 



THE HOG RAISING INDUSTRY. 



While there is a certain mortality among the young pigs and 

 especially among those only a few days old the same mav be said 



