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DIVISION OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY 
REPORT OF TERRITORIAL VETERINARIAN, MARCH, 1922 
April 20, 1922. 
Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 
Honolulu, T. H. 
Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit the following report of the 
Division of Animal Industry for the month of March: 
TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL 
For the total number of animals tested and condemned during the 
past month, see the appended report of the Assistant Territorial Vet- 
erinarian. 
The outstanding feature of the work has been the condemnation of 
six head of imported cattle at the quarantine station. These cattle 
all came from California herds, and two out of the six were pure-bred 
registered stock. 
All of these cattle had passed a tuberculin test on the mainland 
shortly before being shipped to Hawaii. Three different tests were used, 
i. e., subcutaneous, opthalmic and intradermal (subcaudal fold method). 
All of them came from infected herds and had been exposed to infec- 
tion for varying lengths of time. Two out of the six, the pure-breds, 
were shipped back to the Coast; the remaining four were slaughtered 
here. On autopsy ample evidence of active tuberculosis was revealed. 
During the last few years the etELciency of our method of tuberculin 
testing and the protection afforded this Territory by our importation 
regulations, has been repeatedly demonstrated. In tuberculosis eradi- 
cation this Territory leads the entire United States. Our indemnifica- 
tion laws and regulations are most liberal and efficient; our method of 
testing is the most universally applicable and of proven superiority over 
any other form of tuberculin test now being used. 
SWINE DISEASES 
No reports of outbreaks of swine disease have reached this office, with 
the one exception of a small outbreak of what Dr. Golding is pleased to 
call hog cholera, occurring in one of the Japanese camps on the Maka- 
weli plantation. 
Numerous inspections have been made at different piggeries at various 
points on this island, and no sick pigs have been met with. In almost 
every instance sanitation is conspicuous by its absence.' The condition 
at present is hopeless and will remain so until control of the sanitary 
requirements surrounding the breeding, raising and keeping of hogs, 
the issuing of licenses, permits, etc., is placed where it belongs, in the 
hands of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry and 
under the supervision and direction of its Division of Animial Industry. 
If the ^wine industry of this Territory is to be allowed to continue 
according to present methods, with not even a semblance of sanitation 
in 99 per cent of cases, then this industry is going to be subject to 
periodic outbreaks of disease. These outbreaks are going to occur in 
spite of vaccination and may, in certain instances, occur because of it. 
With the institution of proper sanitary measures rigidly and intelligently 
enforced, 95 per cent of the present swine troubles, will be eliminated, 
and this elimination wdll have been effected without exposing the swine 
industry to virulent infection from without. 
At different times the question of the introduction of the virus of 
hog cholera has been brought up, with the idea of using this virus in 
the control of swine disease in this Territory. While not definitely 
