THE BOARD OF HEALTH AND TUBERCULOSIS. 
833 
our high and healthy pastures, where the cattle are out of doors 
six or seven months of the year, with proper shelter nights, and 
during cold storms, and in winter, where the animals have good 
food, good water, cleanly stables, good, kind care, all possess 
sanitary influences that must insure sound, healthy animals and 
pure sweet products, that shall insure health-yielding nourish¬ 
ment to consumers. Unless the dairy is thus protected, con¬ 
sumption will increase instead of decreasing. Prevention_ 
^UeF^^e is indispensable in the eradication of infectious dis¬ 
eases. If we cannot, or will not, institute rigid hygiene for the 
dairy, the only other safe alternative is the universal establish¬ 
ment of the goat-dairy. Goats do not and cannot be made to 
suffer from consumption.” Goats’ milk and butter are rich, 
nutritious and healthful. Horses do contract tuberculosis, and 
should not be used for the cultivation of serum for the treat¬ 
ment of 1 consumption.” The health of the goat as compared 
to that of the horse is infinitely superior. The blood of the 
goat is pure and healthy. That of the horse becomes sadly 
depreciated under the lack of care, and the constant drain from 
the system in cultivation of tuberculin serum. The horse suf¬ 
fers seriously from repeated operations, both in hypodermic in¬ 
jections and in the repeated opening of the veins for the abstrac¬ 
tion of blood. The goat bears these operations very much 
better, and does not suffer in health. In healthful localities 
where the people largely subsist on the milk and meat of goats, 
and fresh vegetables, tuberculosis is rare. And cases occurring 
may be generally traced to the bad health of parents, thus ful¬ 
filling Scripture views of heredity. 
Veterinarians, skilled in the knowledge of animal hygiene 
and breeding in all their broad scope of usefulness, must largely 
form the serviceable members of boards of public sanitation. 
For these invaluable services the public is indebted to the in¬ 
valuable teachings of our colleges of comparative medicine 
throughout the country. Nor do I underestimate the profession 
of human medicine in the hygiene of the public health, having 
been a member of that profession for more than fifty-three years, 
