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(6) At 6 A.M. on the day following the injection of tuber- 

 culin, commence taking temperatures, and continue every 

 two or three hours until the twentieth hour after injection, 

 at which time if there is no tendency for the temperature to 

 rise the test may cease. 



(7) A rise of 2° F. or more above the maximum tempera- 

 ture observed on the previous day, providing the tempera- 

 ture after injection exceeds 103.8° F., should be regarded 

 as an indication of tuberculosis. Those cases which ap- 

 proximate but do not reach this standard should be con- 

 sidered as suspicious, and held for a re-test six weeks later, 

 giving double the original dose. 



The legal status of the tuberculin test. The recent de- 

 cision of the court in the case of the Borden Condensed 

 Milk Company versus the Board of Health of the Town of 

 Montclair, New Jersey, is illuminating and shows the march 

 of progress. This decision was handed down by Justice 

 Swayze, June 6, 1911. The Borden Condensed Milk 

 Company endeavored to set aside a portion of Article 8 

 of the Sanitary Code of Montclair relating to milk and 

 its production. The portion complained of reads as fol- 

 lows : — 



No milk shall be sold or ofifered for sale or distributed in the 

 Town of Montclair except from the cows in good health, nor unless 

 the cows from which it is obtained have within one year been 

 examined by a veterinarian whose competency is vouched for by 

 the State Veterinary Association of the state in which the herd 

 is located, and a certificate signed by such veterinarian has been 

 filed with the board of health, stating the number of cows in each 

 herd that are free from disease. This examination shall include 

 the tuberculin test, and charts showing the reaction of each indi- 

 vidual cow shall be filed with this board. All cows which react 

 shall be removed from the premises at once if the sale of milk is 

 to continue, and no cows shall be added to a herd until certificates 

 of satisfactory tuberculin tests of said cows have been filed with 

 this board. 



The board of health may, from time to time, when in its opin- 



