124 Tuberculosis. 



The law requires that clinically affected tuberculous animals, 

 or those in which tuberculosis probably exists to a great extent, 

 may be ordered destroyed by the police authorities. 



If this is not carried out, or if the destruction is postponed, 

 sanitary police protective measures should be inaugurated against 

 further spread of the disease, by branding the animals. 



The police measures against the spread of the disease con- 

 sist in separation, observation of police control of the affected, sus- 

 pected and susceptible animals; if necessary restriction of traffic 

 of both man and animals, and special limitations relative to the use 

 of affected or suspected animals, and their carcasses, and finally the 

 usual requirements of disinfection. 



For animals which are destroyed by the requirements of the 

 police, and those which after destruction has been ordered, die of 

 the disease on account of which they had been ordered destroyed, 

 the government allows corresponding reimbursement. 



Of great importance in tuberculosis eradication is the require- 

 ment prohibiting the return of skimmed milk and other milk residue 

 to the milk producers, as food for other animals, unless the same 

 has been heated. 



This clause is included in the general requirements of the 

 measure. Centrifugal slime, which has formerly caused the 

 development of ingestion tuberculosis in hogs, must be destroyed 

 by burning or burying. 



The measures differentiate three danger classes in tuberculo- 

 sis: (1) the simple suspicion, (2) the great probability of its 

 presence, and (3) the actual existence of the disease. In the pres- 

 ence of the clinically recognizable classes of tuberculosis, it is 

 required that the milk from such affected animals should not be 

 sold or otherwise utilized without being previously subjected to a 

 required temperature for a certain length of time. 



The milk from cows affected with tuberculosis of the udder 

 cannot be used for human consumption even after subjecting it to 

 the required heat, nor can it be utilized for the preparation of dairy 

 products. 



The requirements in Bavaria order the destruction of an ani- 

 mal only when it belongs to a herd in which cattle breeding, or 

 raising of cattle is industrially followed, and an appropriate volun- 

 tary method of eradication of cattle tuberculosis may then be 

 carried out in the herd under veterinary supervision. 



This ought to result in a considerable improvement of the tu- 

 berculosis question, and with the elimination of animals which prin- 

 cipally enter into consideration as distributors of bacilli, a point 

 is gained which temporarily should thoroughly satisfy even the 

 milk hygienists. 



With such measures the stock owner is pleased, as the pro- 

 fessional direction of rational breeding in connection with eradica- 

 tion is shown to be for his advantage. This constitutes the basis 



