REPORT. | XXVli 
SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT ON TUBERCULOSIS. 
By Proressor Horstezy. 
The foregoing Report on tuberculosis which I have signed is entirely in accordance 
with my views on the subject so far as it goes; but there are two poiats upon which I 
consider further legislation to be absolutely necessary. 
These are — 
1. Breeding. 
2. Notification of the existence of the disease. 
1. Breeding. 
Tuberculosis is notorious, even among the laity, as a disease which is transmitted 
from parent to offspring. This is a fact with which cattle breeders are specially 
familiar, and which finds strong expression in the evidence attached to this Report. 
Further, this generally-received truth has been completely confirmed by the results of 
scientific investigation, as is also duly set forth in the Report. Considering, therefore, 
the extreme importance of this point, I think that the act of wittingly breeding from 
animals so affected should be made an indictable offence. The only objection that can 
be raised to such legislation, which if effected would prevent the dissemination of the 
disease among cattle in this country, is that, owing to the present state of want of 
knowledge among cattle owners and even veterinary surgeons of the early symptoms, 
and physical signs on examination, of this disease, prosecutions would occasionally 
oceur in cases in which no fault could properly be attributed to the owner, and that, 
therefore, such prosecutions would be needlessly vexatious. 
Considering, however, the extreme rarity with which such cases would occur, and 
that, as in the matter of non-notification, each case would be tried before district 
magistrates on its own merits, this objection is deprived of the force it might have 
possessed. 
2. Notification of the Hwistence of the Disease. 
This point requires no explanation, since it is ciear that, unless the veterinary 
inspectors or authorities receive information of occurrence of diseases, it is impossible 
to ensure the thorough carrying out of the provisions of the Contagious Diseases 
(Animals) Act. 
That deliberate non-notification should be punished cannot be doubted by anyone. 
Objection, however, to legislation in this direction has been put forward on the same 
grounds as those upon which the prevention of breeding from diseased animals was 
contested. As, however, I consider that these objections have been already shown to 
have no weight, I recommend that both the forbiddal of breeding from diseased 
animals, and the notification of the disease, should be included in any legislation for 
tuberculosis. 
VICTOR HORSLEY. 
