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SECTION II. 
Tuberculin Test and Tuberculosis. 
March first of last year found six monkeys still in 
quarantine left from the previous fiscal year. During 
the past twelvemonth eleven new monkeys and lemures 
have been received and thirty old monkeys have been 
returned for several reasons. In all 41 tests have been 
carried out and one tuberculous animal detected. 
There have been only twelve deaths among 81 exhibited 
specimens, 14.8%, the lowest percentage of total deaths 
among the primates and lemures in the laboratory 
records. 
Year Ending. 
Number 
exhibited 
during 
year. 
Total 
dying. 
Number 
tubercu- 
lous. 
Per cent, 
of deaths 
tubercu- 
lous. 
Per cent, 
of mor- 
tality 
from tuber- 
culosis. 
February 28, 
February 28. 
February 28, 
February 28, 
February 28, 
February 28, 
February 28, 
February 28, 
February 28, 
February 28, 
February 28, 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
94 
83 
82 
81 
77 
33 
24 
26 
25 
30 
34 
38 
23 
19 
12 
60 
18 
3 
0 
3 
5 
12* 
19* 
0 
5 
2 
78 
55 
12.5 
0 
12.5 
16f 
35* 
50* 
0 
26 
161- 
14 
20 
0 
6 
2.4 
*See 1912 and 1913 reports for explanation of these high figures. 
The tuberculous monkeys, Green monkey 82 and 
Rhesus Macaque 147, are of little importance in the 
hygiene of tuberculosis in the collection. The former 
really should not be charged against our mortality but 
as it was accepted and injected along with a few others 
it is included. Its poor condition attracted attention 
and it was kept widely separated from the others. Upon 
injection the chart was suspicious so the animal was 
not passed. It went down hill and was finally killed 
January 3, 1916 at which time tuberculous pleuritis 
and splenitis were revealed. 
