1909] Live Stock Import Regulations. 847 



kinds from cows and the cow-shed is almost constantly present 

 in milk as it reaches the consumer. Cows suffering from 

 extensive tuberculosis of the lungs must discharge consider- 

 able numbers of bacilli from the air passages in the act of 

 coughing, and some of the bacilli thus expelled may find 

 their way into the milk. But these experiments indicate that 

 the excrement of cows obviously suffering from tuberculosis 

 of the lungs or alimentary canal must be regarded as much 

 more dangerous than the matter discharged from the mouth 

 or nostrils. Even in the case of cows with slight tuberculous 

 lesions, tubercle bacilli in small numbers are discharged in 

 the fasces, while as regards cows clinically tuberculous the 

 experiments show that the fasces contain large numbers of 

 living and virulent tubercle bacilli. The presence of such 

 tuberculous cows in company with healthy cows in the cow- 

 shed is therefore distinctly dangerous, as some of the tubercle 

 bacilli which escape from their bodies in the excrement are 

 almost certain to find their way into the milk. 



The experiments made on behalf of the Commission were 

 carried out by Dr. F. Griffith, and the methods adopted and 

 the details of the experiments are given in the appendix to 

 the Report. 



Malta. — According to Regulations dated 2nd January, 1909, 

 live stock imported into Malta must be accompanied by a cer- 

 tificate from the British Consular Au- 

 Live Stock Import thority, or, where there is no such 

 Regulations.* authority, from the Local Government 

 Authority, stating the exact number of 

 animals shipped, and the date of shipment. The importation of 

 cattle from places infected with cattle plague or pleuro pneu- 



* Live Stock import regulations have been published in this Journal for the 

 following countries :— United States, Sept., 1906, and Sept., 1907; Argentina, 

 Jan., 1905, April, 1905, Oct., 1905, and June, 1906; New South Wales, April, 

 1905 ; Germany, May, 1905 ; New Zealand, June, 1905 ; South Australia, July, 

 1905; France, Aug., 1905; Belgium, Sept., 1905; Uruguay, Oct., 1905; 

 Victoria, Nov., 1905; Spain, Dec, 1905; Queensland, Jan., 1906; Western 

 Australia, Feb., 1906; Tasmania, March, 1906; Transvaal, June, 1906; Ceylon, 

 Cape Colony, Sept., 1906; Holland, Malta, Oct., 1906; Austria-Hungary, Nov., 

 1906; Russia, Hungary, Dec, 1906; Iceland, Italy, India, Feb., 1907; Isle of 

 Man (sheep), Ireland, March, 1907 ; Canada, Isle of Man (swine), Jamaica, 

 April, 1907 ; Norway, Sweden, Isle of Man (sheep), July, 1907 ; British Isles 

 (horses), Nov., 1907, Feb., 1908; Natal, Dec, 1907; Cuba, Philippines, Oct., 

 1908; Canada, Algeria, Argentina, Cape Colony, Jan., 1907. 



