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Live Stock Import Regulations, [march, 



These facts indicate that a very large proportion of tuber- 

 culosis contracted by ingestion is due to tubercle bacilli ot 

 bovine source. 



A very considerable amount of disease and loss of life, 

 especially among the young, must be attributed to the con- 

 sumption of cows' milk containing tubercle bacilli. The 

 presence of tubercle bacilli in cows' milk can be detected, 

 though with some difficulty, if the proper means be adopted, 

 and such milk ought never to be used as food. There is far 

 less difficulty in recognizing clinically that a cow is distinctly 

 suffering from tuberculosis, in which case she may be yielding 

 tuberculous milk. The milk coming from such a cow ought not 

 to form part of human food, and, indeed, ought not to be used as 

 food at all. 



These results clearly point to the necessity of measures 

 more stringent than those at present enforced being taken to 

 prevent the sale or consumption of such milk. 



The Report also contains (i) an "Introduction," giving an 

 account of the experimental stations, the animals experimented 

 upon, the material used, and generally of the procedure adopted 

 in the inquiry ; (2) a brief historical sketch of the disease of 

 tuberculosis ; and (3) a memorandum on the results of the 

 experiments up to November, 1905. 



Isle of Man. — The Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, 



under the powers conferred by the Cattle Diseases Prevention 



, ^ , Acts, has made an order,dated 2QthJanuar\A, 

 Live Stock Import . , , • . 



Regulations. ^907, providmg that any person desirmg to 



import sheep into the Isle of Man from the 

 United Kingdom is to apply for permission to John Q. Cannell, 

 CP., of Ballacarnane, Michael, Isle of Man, the duly appointed 

 Inspector of Scab, at least seven days before the date of importa- 

 tion. The application is to be accompanied by an affidavit, 

 duly sworn before a Justice of the Peace, from the person desiring 

 to import the sheep, to the effect that they are free from scab. 

 On receipt of such affidavit, it shall be lawful for the Inspector 

 to sanction their importation. No sheep are to be imported 

 without such permission by the Inspector in writing. 



