TUBERCULOSIS. 
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witnessed by the City Board of Health and Physicians This 
calf proved to have general tuberculosis, From the calf I made 
as h 7 w, U shed e a "d d -T JeC K ed 3 P ° rti0n hl Dr ' JunghnnS h ° USe cat - 
clt wasTestro d H ° bSerVati ° n ° f In eighty-six days this 
cat » as destroyed and post-mortem made in the presence of the 
best physicians in our city. This cat nrnvpH i , 
berculosis. } 1 P ° ved to ha ve general tu- 
and^nUr 7^7 C ° nsignment of Dutc h Belt cattle brought 
and placed with another herd. About one year after this 
t;: Went t0 Mas -ehusetts. On the eighteenth of 
yst, 1894, the superintendent told me that every one of the 
twelve pined and died of tuberculosis. 
that?/ Mr y A St R Ck ° f J K GiI , bert ’ ° fWeSt Park ’ whose farm Joins 
. . . ' ' ° geis ’ bioke through the fence and mingled- 
with these diseased cattle for ten days. One year ago last May 
he State Board of Health authorized me to make an investio£ 
kill" d d a ‘r d ° f f ° rty headS - 0f this nilmber thirty were 
gation tookT ty rr e Pr ° Ved t0 ** tuberculous ' This investi¬ 
gation took place three years after the mingling of cattle. 
G. A. Boch, of Poughkeepsie, bought twelve herd ofregis- 
ere uernsey cattle from Massachussetts. Three days after 
wagin'the 'l 1 77 l ° eXamine one of th °se cows which 
...... aS ‘ Stages of tuberculosis! I advised Mr. Boch to 
kill the remainder of that purchase, which was not done, and Tn 
abou one month after that eleven head of Guernsey cattle were 
bought and he gradually increased his herd to eighty head 
ca Se ?! f rythmg al ° ng Very fair the fi rst year except many 
cases of mammit.s, but after that he had to kill two or three at 
Mr."lWh nt d 7 k ,‘ Iled S6Venty headS in eight year£ ' Th en 
1G an t le rema inder of the herd was sold at auc- 
ion, as there was no law to prevent him. Mr. P. L. Van Wag 
non bought of this lot twenty-five heads and placed them in his 
er which numbered about forty head. These cattle were 
bought contrary to my advice. Sometime after the purchase 
Mr. Van Wagnon was convinced of what I told him, and he 
aug 1 ered some and sold some, but kept two in his herd. One 
