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physical examination made by a competent veterinarian had 

 failed to disclose the presence of tuberculosis, the animals were 

 liberated. In the other cases they were condemned by a simi- 

 lar physical examination, and examined with tuberculin. All 

 of these animals — being those that were quarantined between 

 June 5 and Dec. 15, 1895 — except the two above mentioned 

 were subjected to the tuberculin test; 1,000 were condemned 

 as tuberculous and destroyed, and upon post-mortem examina- 

 tion disease was found to be present in 989 animals. In 3 

 cases, wherein the post-mortem examinations were made by 

 the agents of the Board, no evidence of disease was found ; in 

 the remaining 8 the post-mortem examinations were performed 

 by local inspectors, who reported them to have been free from 

 the disease. 



It is impossible to give the accurate returns, at the time of 

 making this report, of the total examinations made upon these 

 inspectors' quarantines, for the reason that the Board is not yet 

 in receipt of returns of all the examinations ; and it is prob- 

 able, therefore, that this total of 1,000 represents the number 

 diseased in a figure of one or two hundred less than the total 

 of received quarantines, as hereinafter given. 



Tests made upon Voluntary Requests. 



Prior to June 4 it had been the policy of the commission not. 

 to make tests outside of the counties in which the systematic 

 work was being conducted, except in cases where the animals 

 had already been quarantined by the local inspector. In estab- 

 lishing this rule the commission was influenced by the fact that, 

 with the appropriation at its command, it did not seem practi- 

 cable to carry on both classes of work. There were, however, 

 at this time numerous owners of neat stock throughout the 

 State who desired to have their herds tested with tuberculin, 

 and who were not willing to wait until they could be reached, 

 in the natural course, under the systematic examinations. Ar- 

 rangements, therefore, were made to authorize the examination 

 of such herds wherein the owner in all instances was willing to 

 pay the expense of making the examination, and the veteri- 

 narian employed by him was a fully qualified man in good 

 standing. In such cases the result of the examination, show- 

 ing in detail the thermometrical readings taken prior to and 



