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EDITORIAL. 
requests a continuation of these services; it would ask Drs. Treacy, Robinson, 
Corcoran and Turner to accept its thanks for past favors and trusts that they will 
still continue to interest themselves in the present movement. Trusting our ef¬ 
forts may meet with success, we remain 
Y ours sincerely, 
The Committee. 
January 15th, 1892. 
N.B.—The committee has recently received numerous inquiries in reference 
to another bill lately introduced and bearing on the subject. We beg to say that 
the bill is unworthy of serious notice, and only serves to show the calibre of its 
originator. 
Maine vs. Massachusetts. —A measure of a very radical 
character connected with sanitary medicine has just been 
adopted by the State of Maine, which is, we think, destined 
to have a most important bearing upon the history of veteri¬ 
nary sanitary science in tire United States, in relation to se¬ 
curing and maintaining the control of tuberculous cattle. 
This measure is nothing less than the establishment of a 
quarantine against all cattle sought to be imported into that 
State from Massachusetts. 
According to the circular which we "have received, the 
motive of this stringent measure is derived from the fact of 
the wide prevalence of tuberculosis in Massachusetts, a con¬ 
dition which, although ignored by a few, has, we believe, been 
acknowledged by many of the veterinarians of that State. 
Our correspondent and friend, Dr. G. Bailey, who is State 
Veterinarian, has worked the subject with great energy, and 
it is no doubt due to his efforts, through the serious statistics 
which he has labored to collect and array as proofs of his 
case, that the outcome, in this notice of quarantine, is to be at¬ 
tributed. 
Whether this quarantine can be enforced or not, our knowl¬ 
edge of inter-State rights and policy is too limited to qualify 
us to judge ; but we cannot repress our doubts of the efficacy 
of such a measure in diminishing or abolishing the existence 
of tuberculosis. 
But there is one fact which cannot in any case be ignored, 
to wit, that to veterinary scientific zeal and public spirit is 
due the inauguration of the first official action looking to the 
limitation and ultimate extirpation of the scourge in question 
