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J. J. HARGER. 
REPORT OF CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE ON SANITARY SCIENCE 
AND POLICE. 
By Prof. J. J. Harger. 
Read before the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical Association. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen: —As Chairman of your 
Committee on Sanitary Science and Police, I beg leave to offer 
you the following brief report. 
Fortunately for the community, we have not had any serious 
or extensive outbreaks of any contagious or infectious diseases 
beyond the existence, to a greater or less extent, of those forms 
of contagious diseases which are ever present with us. 
In importance, bovine tuberculosis must necessarily be at 
the head of the list from the influence which it exerts in the 
transmission of the disease to man. 
We had several local outbreaks of glanders, only one of 
which, at Wilkesbarre, proved very disastrous in its results. 
A local outbreak of Texas fever near our city has become a 
matter of record, but of the details ana particulars I shall leave 
to my fellow-worker on the committee, Dr. Francis Bridge, 
from whose hands they must come to you in a necessarily com¬ 
plete and official character, as he personally investigated that 
outbreak. 
Tuberculosis is more prevalent near large cities than farther 
away from them. More prevalent in dairy cattle than in other 
classes of cattle. Recent tests with tuberculine have shown 
that more than one-half of the dairy cattle of some herds are 
tuberculous, while in other herds the percentage of tuberculous 
cattle is very low, and still other herds are entirely free from the 
disease. 
Experienced veterinarians and breeders of cattle are of the 
opinion that tuberculosis in cattle is more prevalent now than it 
Avas a few years ago, which is seen in Europe as well, where it 
Is corroborated by accurate statistics. 
Many herds are so badly affected that the annual mortality 
destroys the entire profit from the remaining animals. In New 
