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7,078 were accompanied by proper certificates of tuberculin 

 test, which were approved by the commission and the animal 

 discharged from quarantine ; 601 were not accompanied by 

 satisfactory certificates, and were held for a period of six days 

 or more, and tested with tuberculin ; 16 of these were con- 

 demned as tuberculous and destroyed, and all were found 

 diseased upon post-mortem examination. 



Systematic Work. 



At the time we submitted to your honorable body the report 

 of this Board for the year 1894, the commission was conduct- 

 ing a systematic examination of all neat stock in the counties 

 of Nantucket, Dukes and Barnstable, and at that time this 

 examination, covering the whole of the Island of Nantucket, 

 was fully described upon page 20 of that report. After leaving 

 Nantucket, the same systematic work was continued through- 

 out Dukes County. In this county 1,300 animals were exam- 

 ined, of which 3 were condemned as tuberculous, all of which 

 showed unmistakable signs of that disease upon post-mortem 

 examination. A fourth animal, which showed no reaction to 

 tuberculin, was condemned and killed on account of actinomy- 

 cosis. 



The work in Dukes County was begun on the twenty-ninth 

 day of December, 1894, and was completed upon the twenty- 

 second day of February. 



The examination in Barnstable County was begun March 4, 

 at Provincetown, following which the entire eastern portion 

 of this county was examined, up to and including the towns 

 of Harwich and Brewster, where the work ceased upon the 

 twentieth day of May. There were 1,556 animals examined 

 in this county ; 6 were condemned, all of which were found 

 upon post-mortem examination to be diseased. In addition, 

 one animal in Truro showed no reaction to the tuberculin test, 

 but was condemned upon physical examination, and upon post- 

 mortem was found free from tuberculosis. 



Up to June 4, 1895, when thcvnew law became operative, 

 all the animals in the following towns in Barnstable County 

 had been examined: Provincetown, Truro, Orleans, Wellfleet, 

 Eastham, Chatham, Brewster and Harwich. The work was 

 stopped on the twentieth of May, by reason of failure of suffi- 



