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the educational work must be continued and the many smaller 
producers must be kept up to the mark through frequent visits 
and constant urging with regard to improvements of methods, 
premises and utensils. That the health and condition of the dairy 
animals must be kept under continued observation goes without 
saying, as otherwise it would be but a very short time before 
many of the now clean herds would have the infection back and 
further losses nnpending. 
The buying, selling, exchanging, leasing and transferring from 
one dairy to another of tested or untested, fresh or dry, old or new 
milch cows, heifers or bulls, must be kept under surveillance. A 
card index is now kept in this ofifice, by means of which each 
tested and ear-tagged animal can be located at a moment's notice, 
and the transfer of tested animals from stable to stable is recorded 
as soon as known. Another index shows the serial number and 
the date of testing of each animal in the possession of each owner. 
It is further intended to have this index embrace sanitary and 
hygienic conditions of premises and in fact everything pertaining 
to each individual dairy, not for the purpose of usurping the work 
or the duties of the milk inspector, but in order to facilitate and 
systematize the same and avoid unnecessary repetition of work, 
which the cooperation of the three boards makes it desirable to 
have collected and recorded in one place. 
In this connection I wish to state that the present method of 
having the milk inspector accompany the inspecting and testing 
officer of the Division of Animal Industry has proven of un- 
looked-for value and has greatly facilitated the work of both, not 
alone so far as transportation is concerned, but principally in com- 
bining the authority of the two officers, thereby avoiding repeti- 
tion of instructions, which if delivered at different times by officers 
working independently of each other might easily lead to misun- 
derstanding or confusion especially when dealing with Oriental 
and other owners or laborers of foreign birth. If therefore the 
present arrangement does not interfere with any other instruc- 
tions or duties of the milk inspector and if the work as here re- 
ported on meets with the approval of the respective boards I am 
authorized to state that the tuberculosis control work will be con- 
tinued along the same lines as hitherto. If any further difficulty 
should be met with in having the remaining tuberculous cattle 
(reactors) removed from premises where milk is produced or 
where the infection may be transmitted to other animals, it might 
be well to publish a "by authority" notice in the daily papers 
giving a concise definition of what constitutes impure, adulterated, 
unhealthful or unwholesome milk, with special reference to milk 
from diseased animals, as defined in the statutes of the Territory 
and in the municipal milk ordinance now in effect. It is, how- 
ever, believed that this step will not be necessary and that conse- 
cjuently it would be better not to again alarm the public on this 
subject. 
List of dairies in the City and County of Honolulu entitled to 
