2¥y 
THE MILK SUPPLY OF HONOLULU. 
Report by the Territorial Veterinarian on the Milk Supply of the 
City and County of Honolulu with Special Reference to 
Bovine Tuberculosis among the Dairy Herds of the Terri- 
tory, addressed to the Territorial Board of Health and the 
Board of Supervisors of the City and County of Honolulu, by 
direction of the Territorial Board of Agriculture and For- 
estry. 
Honolulu, July 17, 1911. 
Gentlemen : — By direction of the president of the Board of 
Agriculture and Forestry and especially by the Committee on 
Animal Industry of this Board, I have the honor to submit here- 
with a report on the present state of health of the dairy animals 
of the City and County of Honolulu as bearing upon the local 
milk supply. 
This report is based upon the work carried on by the Division 
of Animal Industry for the past year or more in an attempt to 
regulate the local milk supply in accordance with an ordinance 
passed by the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of 
Honolulu, under date of March 21, 1910, which ordinance, among 
other specifications, requires that all dairy animals from which 
milk is obtained for human consumption must have passed the 
tuberculin test. 
When this ordinance was under consideration it was a well 
known fact that tuberculosis was prevalent among the cattle in a 
number of local dairies, for which reason a public meeting was 
called in order to allow the dairymen to express their opinions as 
to the advisability of including the tuberculin test among the re- 
quirements for a wholesome milk supply, as enumerated in the 
various, more or less stringent, specifications of the ordinance. 
The measure was favored by a majority of the dairymen present, 
and especially by those who had already inaugurated a system 
of eradication, that is by the up-to-date and progressive milk 
producers, who realized that, sooner or later, the disease would 
have to be dealt with as a prohibitive factor, the presence of which 
was incompatible with a wholesome milk supply. 
In order, however, not to make the ordinance oppressive or 
difficult to coniply with for financial reasons, it was decided that 
the cost of the tuberculin test should be borne by the public, and 
an understanding was reached whereby the Board of Agriculture 
and Forestrv assumed the actual work of testing the dairy ani- 
mals belonging- to applicants for permits to sell milk. 
The first official tuberculin test was begun during the spring 
of 1910, and the conditions which were immediately disclosed 
were of such a nature as to cause, to say the least, consternation. 
The prevalence of the disease among the dairy herds of the 
Islands had been fully demonstrated when, about a decade ago, 
