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5. Internal (board under military rule) and external (residence out- 

 side) are optional in veterinary schools. 



6. Veterinary schools may be independent establishments, or they may 

 be connected with universities or institutions for the higher education, 

 but veterinary medicine should have its special chairs. One cannot but 

 disapprove of institutions in which all branches of veterinary education 

 are divided in a very limited number of veterinary chairs ; such a sys- 

 tem is absolutely insufticient. 



It is very desirable that in every country veterinary schools should 

 be state institutions. 



7. The professors of veterinary schools ought to possess diplomas of 

 veterinary medicine. It is very desirable that veterinarians before be- 

 ing called to the ])rofessorship should have practiced veterinary medi- 

 cine for some years. 



Fourth question. 



(See body of report.) 



Fifth question — Tuberculosis. 



The flesh and viscera of a tuberculous animal can only be utilized 

 for human food when the disease is found in the cadaver in the incipi- 

 ent stage, when the lesions are confined to a very small portion of the 

 body, when the lymphatic glands are still free from all morbid tuber- 

 cular lesions, when the tuberculous formations have not yet undergone 

 softening, when the flesh presents the characters of meat of the first 

 quality, and when the animal is in good state of nutrition at the time 

 of slaughter. 



It should not be permitted to remove the flesh of tuberculous animals 

 admitted to consumption out of the locality where they have been 

 slaughtered, and it should not be offered for sale in the butchers' stall. 



Every quarter of meat and all viscera showing lesions of tuberculosis, 

 as well as the flesh of any other animal in which there is found at the 

 necropsy a tuberculous infection more jironounced than that referred to 

 above, should be watered with petroleum oil, and afterward buried 

 under police supervision. The extraction of fat by cooking and the 

 utilization of the skin may be permitted. 



The inspection of every animal attacked by tuberculosis should be 

 made by a veterinarian, who alone should decide if the flesh is fit for 

 human consumption. 



The milk of animals afi'ected with tuberculusis or suspected of it should 

 not be taken by man nor by certain animals. The sale of this milk 

 should be severely interdicted. 



Respectfully submitted. 



JAMES LAW. 



Hon. George B. Loring, 



Commissioner of Agriculture. 



