PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS. 
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ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS. 
By Dr. J. M. Parker, Haverhill, Mass. 
A Paper Read before the Massachusetts State Veterinary Association. 
Believing that the State Veterinary Association ought to 
lead in formulating laws for the attempted prevention of tuber¬ 
culosis, I have endeavored, in a rough way, to bring the matter 
before the Association, so that, if thought advisable, some ac¬ 
tion might be taken on the matter. 
At the present time prophilactic measures for the purpose of 
controlling and checking the spread of tuberculosis are attract¬ 
ing a great deal of attention, not only from the Veterinary pro¬ 
fession, but Medical Associations and State Boards of Health 
throughout the country are taking the matter up, and in several 
states the Health officials have placed ^tuberculosis on the list 
of Contagious Diseases, and otherwise have taken decided ac¬ 
tion on the matter. 
Michigan was the first to adopt this line of action, and on 
September 30, 1893, “The Michigan State Board of Health 
unanimously decided that consumption is a dangerous, communi¬ 
cable disease, and must be reported by physicians and house¬ 
holders to the several Boards of Health .”—Medical Record , 
November 18, 1893. 
Pennsylvania next came into line, and in October the “ Phila¬ 
delphia County Medical Society” appealed to the Board of 
Health of Philadelphia to place tuberculosis upon the list of 
contagious diseases to be reported to the Board. 
The Health Department of the State of New York, acting 
on the advice of Dr. H. M. Biggs, the Bacteriologist of the 
Department, has taken a similar position, (see page 832, Medical 
Record , December 23, 1893). 
While at Chicago the American Public Health Association, 
