426 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



It will be seen by the foregoing table that during the year 

 the local inspectors quarantined for various causes 3,249 

 cattle; of these, 1,178 have been killed and paid for as tu- 

 berculous ; 79 were killed on a permit to kill, 15 of which 

 were too badly infected with tuberculosis to prove fit for 

 beef, and were paid for, the owners taking the hides and 

 carcasses of the other 64 to dispose of for their own benefit ; 

 there are also 242 cattle, killed as tuberculous, which have 

 not as yet been paid for. This makes a total of 1,435 head 

 of cattle killed during the year as tuberculous quarantined 

 by the local inspectors, nearly all of which were so badly 

 diseased as to be condemned on a physical examination. 



In addition to the animals in the above table, 30 head of 

 cattle were reported as having been condemned as unfit for 

 food at the slaughter house because of tuberculosis, or as 

 having been received at the rendering establishments. One 

 swine was also condemned as unfit for food because of 

 tuberculosis. 



Very little tuberculin has been used except for testing 

 the animals held in quarantine at Brighton and other points 

 as coming from without the State, and for 291 animals which 

 were tested at the voluntary request of their owners, who 

 wished to eradicate this disease from their herds. 



Whether the bovine and human tubercle bacillus is identi- 

 cal, and whether there is any danger to human beings from 

 the use of milk from cows with tuberculosis, or not, may be 

 a question ; but it cannot be denied that cows that are badly 

 diseased or that have tuberculosis in their udders give tuber- 

 cle bacilli in the milk, and it is a known fact that milk from 

 these animals fed uncooked will produce tuberculosis in pigs, 

 calves, rabbits and guinea pigs, if given to them. Even 

 granting that it is not proved that milk from tuberculous 

 cows is any danger to human beings, no sane person would 

 advocate feeding to children material that will infect calves, 

 pigs and other animals. 



Most of the animals killed were sufficiently diseased to pre- 

 sent very well-marked lesions, and several had tuberculosis 

 of the udder ; such creatures are certainly unfit for a pulilic 

 milk supply in a community where milk is usually used un- 



