Boyce. (Results given by Annett, Lancet, 1900, p. 160.) 
He examined the market milk of Liverpool, England; his results 
are given in the following table : 
Year 1898 : Per cent tuberculous. 
Town milk (75 specimens) 6.6 
Country milk (28 specimens) _• 17.8 
Year 1899: 
Town milk (75 specimens) 6.6 
Country milk ( 63 specimens ) 17. 4 
The superiority of the town milk is attributed to the inspections 
conducted in town. 
Rabinowitsck, Lydia. Deut. med. Wocb., XXVI, 1900, p. 416. 
Repeatedly examined the milk of eight Berlin dairies. This milk 
was designed especially for the use of children, was not sterilized, and 
sold for 35 to 60 x pfennig per liter. In three of these dairies the cows 
were rigidly tuberculin tested. No tubercle bacilli were ever found 
in this milk. In the other five the cows were subjected to clinical 
oversight by veterinarians* but the tuberculin test was employed only 
now and then upon suspicious animals. In three of these five dairies 
the milk was found to contain tubercle bacilli. The percentage of 
specimens containing tubercle bacilli is not stated. 
ProskauerJ Seligmann, and Croner. Zeit. Hyg., Bd. 57, 1907, p. 173. 
Made an examination of the milk sent in from Denmark, compar- 
ing it with Berlin milk. The examination was very thorough, in- 
cluding a search for tubercle bacilli by means of animal inoculation. 
Danish milk: Thirteen specimens examined, 5 found to contain 
tubercle bacilli (38.5 per cent). There appears to have been a 
verbal agreement with the contracting parties that the milk furnished 
should have been heated 80° to 84° C. Berlin milk: Of 9 samples, 
o contained tubercle bacilli (55.5 per cent). However, in five tests 
of milk from dairies controlled by veterinary inspections no speci- 
mens were found to contain tubercle bacilli. 
THE HUMBER OF TUBERCULAR COWS IX THE DAIRIES SUPPLYING 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
* 
A letter was addressed to Dr. IV. C. Woodward, health officer, 
Washington, D. C., and to the Agricultural Department requesting 
data as to the number of cows in dairies supplying milk to the city 
of Washington that had responded to the tuberculin test. Dr. J. R. 
Mohler stated October 4, 1907, that of 1,147 recently tested cows sup- 
plying milk to the city of Washington, 214, or 18.6 per cent, responded 
