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an official test was made, as a result of which a large majority (it 
was then believed) of the affected animals were destroyed; but 
that the disease should have spread, either from the surviving 
affected animals or from imported stock, to the extent which was 
disclosed by the present test seemed unbelievable, and it was not 
until a number of owners of reacting animals had been satisfied 
by post-mortem demonstrations, that the reactors were actually 
affected with the disease, that it dawned upon the community 
that it was face to face with at least one of the sources of the 
great mortality from consumption among the population of the 
Territory. However, it is unnecessary here to recall the appalling 
percentages of affected animals which confronted a number of 
dairy owners, and v/hich made it practically impossible to enforce 
the municipal milk ordinance, without causing a milk famine, 
while, at the same time, misguided sentiment in regard to the 
disposal of the carcasses of reacting animals made it next to 
impossible for the owners of infected herds to rid them of the 
disease, except at a complete, and often ruinous, sacrifice. Under 
these circumstances there seemed for a time little prospect of a 
speedy solution of the milk problem, and the fact that we are now, 
less than eighteen months from the beginning of this campaign, 
entering upon an era of clean milk for the City and County of 
Honolulu is due, principally, to two men, to whom I consider it a 
privilege here to give the credit which so fully belongs to them. 
Mr. Isenberg and Mr. Pond, or Mr. Pond and Mr. Isenberg, 
while employing diametrically opposite methods, have both ac- 
complished what might have seemed the unattainable. Both cap- 
tains in the dairy industry, each counting his milk producers by 
the hundred, have cleaned their heavily infected herds from tuber- 
culosis, voluntarily, unsubsidized and at great financial sacrifice, 
blazing the way for others to follow — a way which no ordinance, 
statute, rule or regulation could have enforced, and obviating in- 
demnification and litigation ad infinitum. 
While Mr. Pond has worked for years, keeping at it steadily, 
familiarizing himself with the various diagnostic agents and 
methods, eliminating the diseased animals whenever physical 
symptoms made their appearance, replenishing his herd only with 
tested animals, and drawing freely on the time and advice of the 
local officials, he was able when the crucial test came to present 
for examination a herd which to all intents and purposes was 
clean, literally as well as technically. 
Mr. Isenberg, on the other hand, had always been a breeder, 
raising his own cows, using imported tuberculin tested sires and, 
from the appearance of his herd, had no reason to suspect any 
extensive infection among them. This surmise was also borne 
out by the tuberculin test. It was, therefore, a great surprise 
when the official test disclosed the presence of a large number 
of infected animals. Mr. Isenberg, however, decided at once that 
no milk from affected animals should be allowed to reach the 
human consumer and began immediately to destroy all reactors. 
