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that during the year ending Xov. 30, 1907, there were 495 

 cases of tuberculosis found in cattle slaughtered at the 

 Brighton Abattoir, of which 259 were condemned as unfit 

 for food; and that out of 595 hogs in which tuberculosis was 

 found, only 12 were condemned as unfit for food, the remain- 

 ing number, 585, having only slight lesions of tuberculosis, 

 and passing inspection as fit for food. 



In addition to the cases reported by the Boston Board of 

 Health, there were 73 cows, 1 calf and 12 swine reported 

 outside of Boston as having tuberculosis, condemned as unfit 

 for food by butchers and renderers during the past year ; but 

 if the requirements of the law providing that these reports 

 shall be made to the Chief of the Cattle Bureau are no more 

 carefully observed than the portions relating to slaughter- 

 house licensing, there must have been a good many more 

 cases that have not been reported. 



The United States Bureau of Animal Industry inspects all 

 animals and their products, killed for interstate commerce 

 and export; but it exercises no supervision over animals 

 shipped alive from one State to another in the east for dairy 

 or breeding purposes or for slaughter. While large sums 

 of money are spent in the west to prevent the spread of 

 Texas fever, cattle mange and sheep scab from one State to 

 another, nothing is done in the east to prevent the shipment 

 of tuberculous cattle, cows known as " canners," bob calves 

 and glandered horses from one State to another; and unless 

 the State law or its live stock sanitary regulations give it 

 some measure of protection, it can go without. The same 

 observations also apply to the shipment of milk and dairy 

 products from one Commonwealth to a neighboring one. If 

 the United States Department of Agriculture supplied this 

 inspection, and tested cattle destined for dairy and breeding 

 purposes with tuberculin before shipment from one State 

 to another, the money saved to a State in this way could be 

 well expended toward eradicating contagious animal diseases 

 within its limits. 



In the report made to the Board last January reference 

 was made to certain defects in the law, which it seemed 

 desirable to ask the Legislature to remedy. Chapter 213 of 



