4 Commission Report: Tuberculosis. 
Hon. W. D. Hoarp, Louis F. Swirt, 
Frepertck TorRANCE, J. W. FLAVELLE, 
M. H. ReyNno.ps, E. C. SCHROEDER. 
The Commission met at Buffalo, New York, on the fifteenth 
day of December, nineteen hundred and nine, and elected as 
Chairman Dr. J. G. Rutherford, of Ottawa, Canada, and as Sec- 
retary, Dr. M. H. Reynolds, of St. Paul, Minnesota. a 
Owing to the death of Dr. Leonard Pearson, and the inability 
to act of Mr. Louis Swift, the President appointed in the stead 
of these two gentlemen respectively, Dr. M. P. Ravenel of Madi- 
son, Wisconsin, and Mr. T. W. Tomlinson of Denver, Colorado. 
Later at the request of the Commission the President appointed 
Mr. J. J. Ferguson, of Chicago, Ill, as a representative of the 
United States Packing Industry, and Dr. J. N. Hurty of In- 
dianapolis, Indiana, as representative of the Medical Health Offi- 
cers of the United States. 
REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON 
THE CONTROL OF BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS. 
To the President of the American Veterinary Medical Association: 
Owing to the great economic and sanitary significance of ani- 
mal tuberculosis to the live stock industry of America, and the 
many and varied factors which must of necessity be accounted 
with in formulating successful measures for its eradication, the 
American Veterinary Medical Association, at its meeting in Chi- 
cago in September, 1909, appointed the International Commission 
on the Control of Bovine Tuberculosis. The Commission was in- 
structed to study the problem of tuberculosis among cattle and 
to report at the next meeting of the Association upon reason- 
able and economically practicable methods or systems to be re- 
commended to both officials and live stock owners for eradica- 
ting this great scourge of domesticated animals. 
It is recognized that tuberculosis is widely prevalent among 
cattle and other animals and that the frequency with which this 
great evil occurs is increasing rather than declining. As tuber- 
culosis is one of the strictly preventable infections, there is good 
ground for the belief that through the formulation and enforce- 
ment of proper regulations the disease may eventually be entirely 
suppressed, 
