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As the American Veterinary Review is eminently the 
guardian of the public health, it should reach the people whose 
welfare it subserves. It promotes the health of the community, 
and I therefore purpose to speak with emphasis rather than 
dilute what I have to say with obscure technicalities. 
Food is one of the essential demands of life, of man, of ani¬ 
mals and of plants. 
“ And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, 
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. ’ ’ 
(To be continued .) 
TUBERCULOSIS. 
By Dr. U. B. McCurdy, Topeka, Kansas. 
A Paper read before the Missouri Valley Veterinary Association. 
In scanning the report of the New York Board of Health 
we are brought to a realization of the great ravages of the most 
insidious, silent and deadly disease known to man and beasts. 
For the four weeks beginning January 18, 1896, and ending 
February 8th, the report shows : 
Deaths from tuberculosis,.464 
Deaths from typhoid fever, scarlet fever, cerebro-spinal 
meningitis, measles, diphtheria, and smallpox, . 365 
showing 99 more deaths from tuberculosis than from the other 
six diseases combined. In one year in New York City 14 per 
cent, of the 5,49° deaths were a result of tuberculosis. 
Pleuro-pneumonia, the most dreaded of contagious diseases, 
is of a very rapid and fatal form, developing in from three to 
six weeks from time of exposure, acute cases proving fatal in 
from ten to twelve days from the first appearance of the disease. 
When the epidemic has run its course it can readily and posi¬ 
tively be seen that the disease has been stamped out. 
Tuberculosis, which is a slow and chronic disease, differs 
principally in the degree of its activity, being, generally, of 
much longer duration, many cases proving harmless. Fre¬ 
quently in the body of some apparently healthy animal it is 
