150 TESTIMONY OF JOSEPH T. O'CONNOR. 



By the COURT Q. Did the cow appear to be healthy ? A. Yes, 

 sir. 



By Mr. LAWRENCE Q. How do you know she was healthy ? A. 

 She appeared to be. 



JOSEPH T. O'CONNOR, sworn and examined, testified as follows : 



Q. Dr. O'CONNOR, you are one of the Inspectors of the Board of 

 Health, are you? A. Yes, sir. 



Q. And have been for some time engaged in the inspection of 

 milk in the city, and have also made some other tests ? A. Yes, 

 sir. 



Q. There was reference upon the examination of Dr. Chandler 

 to an instance of a cow reported among those which he had 

 considered whose milk stood at 88 on the lactometer, and there were 

 two cows reported at 96 and 98; did you know the condition of those 

 cows ? A. I did, sir. 



Q. Healthy or unhealthy? A. They were unhealthy. 



Q. Did you make this inspection of the sick cows of your own 

 motion, or state how you made it ? A. T was told that such a cow 

 was sick. I refused to take the milk of a certain cow on the 

 ground that it was sick, and the next day, when I was making a 

 morning inspection to oblige the superintendent of the farm, as a 

 matter of curiosity for him, I did take the specific gravity of that 

 milk, and that was reported as a curiosity also, a mere matter 

 of interest to the Board outside the regular tabulated statement of 

 the cows. 



(Objected to ; objection overruled ; exception.) 



Q. Do you know the condition of the cow, and what was it ? 

 A. That cow I see noted to be an unhealthy cow. 



Q. The one at 96 ? A. The one at 96 ; I saw but yesterday, 

 when my attention was drawn off to something else ; I could not say 

 at this time ; I cannot recollect, as it were, the picture of that cow 

 in my memory, so that I cannot say now that I remember, but my 

 memory is that I saw it and understood sufficiently well that it was 

 an unhealthy cow. 



Q. Did you report it as sick or healthy ? A. I reported 

 that also as a sick cow outside the tabulated statement that I made. 



Q. How many samples of milk did you examine on the farms. 



