STATE SUPPRESSION OF TUBERCULOSIS UNWARRANTABLE IF NOT THOROUGH. 8 1 5 
/. The Radical Method .—In this method all the herds of the 
State would be examined and tested with “ tuberculin ” as 
speedily as possible ; the diseased animals would be condemned, 
appraised, killed and safely disposed of ; the premises disinfect¬ 
ed ; other genera of animals that have cohabited with the 
diseased would be examined, and, if necessary, safely disposed 
of; vermin would be killed, and all consumptive persons would 
be debarred from attending on the purified herd or preparing 
their food. Finally all new purchases would be kept apart from 
the herd until they had been tested with “ tuberculin.” In this 
way every step would be so much clear gain, and what had once 
been accomplished could be looked upon with reasonable confi¬ 
dence as a permanent success. 
Without entering into the details of such a scheme, and while 
allowing that it would prove the most efficient, and in the end, 
perhaps, the most economical resort, it may suffice to estimate 
the cost, and to consider whether the requisite number of thor¬ 
oughly trained men could be secured for professional inspectors. 
The meat cattle of New York are, by the census of 1890, 
2,328,015 head, and to test these in oiffi year, at the rate of 
twenty per day for each inspector, would require 360 professional 
inspectors. The ratio of tuberculous animals is probably 5 per 
cent., amounting to 116,400, and the post-mortem examinations 
of these at the rate of twenty-four per day for each inspector, 
would require 16 more inspectors for an entire year. The expense 
account might, therefore, be expected to include the following : 
Indemnities for 116,400 cattle, at $25, $2,910,000. 
Inspectors, 376, at $1,500, - - 564,000. 
Administration expenses, - - 10,000. 
Total, - $3,484,000. 
By many this will be considered as prohibitory, though when 
taken in connection with the disabilities and deaths from tuber¬ 
culosis in man, and the losses to our herds and products, it need 
not be condemned on the score of expense. 
Another objection is the difficulty or impossibility of at once 
