NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IX 3 SI 
imposed by the mayor, and the case was taken to the district court where 
the verdict for the city was sustained. We reproduce here a cut showing 
one of the animals slaughtered and the tubercular lesions are shown to 
be so prominent that it leaves no question of doubt as to the importance 
of maintaining such inspection, wherever meat and milk are sold to the 
city trade. 
THE FENCE OR THE AMBULANCE. 
In a well populated district of one of our western states there is a cliff, 
over which thousands of people pass daily. Some are unaware of the 
close proximity of the cliff to their pathway, and when passing along 
make a misstep and are precipitated to the street far below. 
The people wanted some remedy for the danger. Some argued for a 
fence and some for an ambulance. The latter method prevailed. An 
ambulance, then, was required to carry the injured to a hospital, and the 
expense was allowed to accrue, not to mention the loss of life and limb 
which continued. 
Finally the accidents grew so numerous and the expense so heavy that 
the ambulance became a burden in place of a remedy — and then a fence 
was built. There were no more accidents. The ambulance was removed, 
and the hospital closed. And there was no more suffering. The needs 
to combat the dangerous cliff were satisfied. 
Why not apply the same principle to the treatment of tuberculosis? 
Let us build a system of prevention by destroying its origin among 
stock. The hospital and its varying attending avenues of taking care of 
the afflicted would then be useless — in time. Human suffering and heavy 
cost would be lessened and in keeping with this advanced stage of civili- 
zation. The expense would be small, and equality of misfortune in dis- 
eased stock would prevail. 
GLANDERS. 
We have to report quite a number of cases of glanders among horses 
and mules in this state, the disease having originated and existed in many 
different sections of the state at various intervals. We have given special 
attention to calls in suppressing the disease or preventing. its spread, and 
although having accomplished good results, the losses have been extensive 
in some cases. Outbreaks of this disease have occurred in the following 
counties: Black Hawk, Buena Vista, Butler, Clinton, Chickasaw, Craw- 
ford, Cerro Gordo, Carroll, Dallas, Dubuque, Franklin, Greene, Hardin, 
Harrison, Hamilton, Iowa, Lyon, Lucas, Madison, Mitchell, Poweshiek, 
Pottawattamie, Polk, Pocahontas, Ringgold, Story, Shelby, Tama, Wood- 
bury, Worth, Wright and Washington. 
One case in particular which commanded urgent action came from 
Ames, where a contractor had set up winter quarters. He had shipped 
into Iowa from South Dakota, and glanders w^as discovered among these 
animals. Out of a herd of nineteen tested, fourteen reacted, and were 
destroyed, eight had died previous to the test. We were compelled to 
order the destruction of all others found diseased. It required rigid en- 
