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SUPERVISION OF MILK SUPPLY. 
paid for. In each case the animal killed showed evidence of the 
disease upon post-mortem. 
In two dairies the tuberculin test disclosed no tubercular re¬ 
action where the bacteriological examination showed the pres¬ 
ence of tuberculosis in the milk. The tuberculin test showed 
that nearly three per cent, of the cows examined were tubercu¬ 
lous, and in addition marked six cows as suspicious cases. 
The board is fully awake to the danger of tuberculosis and 
firmly believes in the efficacy of tuberculin to detect it. Its 
purpose is to examine for tuberculosis once a year, and also, in 
the interim, the newly added cows, which the vendors’ monthly 
reports show will be about one-third of the dairies each year. 
Upon the failure of the State appropriation made to eradicate 
tuberculosis, the entire expense falls upon local boards, as is the 
case this year, and no law provides for killing or paying for the 
tuberculous cow except when the State is making the test. We 
find this our greatest stumbling block. What shall be done 
with the diseased cow ? Her existence is a peril anywhere, and 
her me cannot be officially watched and prevented. 
The board believes that when bacteriological examination 
shows tuberculosis in the milk of a dairy it has discovered a 
nuisance, a menace to health, and the dairymen should then be 
at the expense of locating it and eradicating it, of abating the 
nuisance, as in the case of any nuisance, the work to be done by 
an expert under the approval of the local board ; that when the 
tuberculin test locates the disease in the cow the local board 
should have power to kill the cow, the loss of the animal to be 
borne by the owner if post-mortem shows disease, and by the 
local board if not diseased ; and that a law should be passed con¬ 
ferring such powers and imposing such duties, and we urge upon 
this society that it take such steps as lie within its power toward 
securing proper legislation on this subject. 
Meat Inspection .—No method of meat inspection has yet 
been adopted, the expense having thus far stood in the way. 
The board favors a public slaughter-house, where all animals 
shall be killed under official supervision and where the render¬ 
ing shall be done, and all meat brought into the city for sale, 
except that receiving government inspection, shall be examined. 
Slaughter-houses are now under the supervision of the board, but 
the results are unsatisfactory. 
In Halifax, Nova Scotia, the veterinarian receives fifty 
cents per call. 
