REPORT OF CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE ON SANITARY SCIENCE AND POLICE. IIQ 
York State whole herds have been examined by order of the 
State Board of Health, and large numbers of animals have been 
slaughtered. 
The agitation of the subject has so frightened the public 
that the consumption of milk has been greatly reduced in some 
places. It has also seriously affected the value of some breed-s 
of cattle. 
For the protection of the farmer’s interest, aside from the 
question of public health, it is important that some definite 
legislative action should be immediately taken, placing the 
control of tuberculosis in cattle, and the disposal of tuberculous 
animals, on a fixed basis, so that there may be uniformity of 
action in this respect, and so the owners of animals may know 
what to do, what to expect and how to govern themselves 
accordingly. 
Since it is at present manifestly impossible to make a 
thorough examination of every bovine animal in the state, it 
would be well to start the examination with an inspection of the 
dairies supplying milk to the cities. The direction of the 
inspection of animals and the control of their diseases should be 
in the hands of competent veterinary authorities, who should 
also issue a bulletin of information to cattle breeders, informing: 
them of the dangers to be feared from this disease, and the 
hygienic and other measures to be adopted to restrict its pro¬ 
gress and eradicate it from their herds. The veterinary inspec¬ 
tor should have the power, under proper restrictions, to order 
the destruction of tubercular animals. The question as to 
whether the owner should receive the whole value, or part of 
the value, or nothing, is one which has received much attention. 
To pay the full value of all tubercular animals would mean, 
as Dr. Lyman of the Massachusetts State Cattle Commission 
has pointed out for the state, to go into the business of buying 
up tuberculous animals from all parts of this great country, for 
they would immediately be shipped to Pennsylvania almost 
as rapidly as fat cattle are now shipped to Chicago. On the 
other hand, if nothing was paid for these tuberculous animals 
