dairy inspection. 
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To accomplish this measure we should first have proper 
legislation and sufficient appropriations, as heretofore mentioned, 
to allow the Sanitary Board, which should be composed mainly 
of veterinarians, the power to inspect and destroy all animals 
found to be suffering from tuberculosis in any form, upon remu¬ 
nerating the owners of such animals for the same. All dairy 
and breeding establishments should be inspected a stated num¬ 
ber of times annually, and their sanitary condition carefully 
examined as to cleanliness, drainage, etc., and no new animals 
oe allowed to be used in a dairy without first having been 
examined. 
The inspection should not end with dairy and breeding 
cattle, d he number of families who own one cow and supply a 
number of families with milk are innumerable, and in the ma¬ 
jority of cases the sanitary surroundings are of the worse kind. 
They, too, should be inspected. There should be a chief in¬ 
spector, and a sufficient number of assistants to co-operate with 
the board of health of each county. Each county board of 
health should have a veterinarian as one of its members, who 
would be the local inspector of that county. He should inspect 
all animals, and look after the sanitary conditions of all dairys, 
and make his reports to the chief inspector, as the legislature 
may require. 
It shouldffie the duty of the chief inspector, either personally 
or through his assistants, to examine all dairy and breeding 
establishments, together with the local officer, at least twice a 
year. The inspection should be compulsory, and the sale of 
milk and its products from any animal not having a certificate of 
inspection as sound, should be prohibited under severe penalties. 
The people do not realize the danger which might be over¬ 
looked by not making a thorough inspection; in fact, they do 
not realize the enormous dangers of using dairy products from 
animals afflicted with tuberculosis, many of them not knowing 
that consumption is communicated in that way; nor do they 
realize that there are many other troubles originating through 
dairy products, from the lack of proper sanitary conditions. 
