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of Animal Industry and its efficient officers deserve all praise 
for the noble work they are quietly but surely accomplishing 
by stamping out, thereby protecting this great nation, from 
contagious pleuro-pneuinonia and tuberculosis, which comes 
on insidiously and frequently makes considerable progress 
before it is observed and the necessity for recognizing the ex¬ 
istence of them was never greater than the present day. 
The illimitable demand for animal food by rich and poor 
is perhaps in no part of the world greater than in the United 
States, and when we take into consideration the variety of 
diseases which are transmitted to man from the animal king¬ 
dom—one especially, tuberculosis , not only may it be trans¬ 
mitted to man but to any species of animal that partakes of 
raw flesh in which is contained tuberculous matter—and when 
we take into consideration the vast amount of milk that forms 
the principal daily article of diet for the infant and invalid, 
whose condition and low resisting powers renders them espec¬ 
ially susceptible to absorption from milk thus contaminated, 
it is no wonder our mortality by tuberculosis is so great as 
statistics show for the city of Brooklyn : 
From January istto December 31st, 1880—1736. 
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I firmly believe that this great mortality can be influenced 
by the co-operation of the veterinary profession in reporting 
any suspicious case to the inspector of his district, thereby 
aiding the Bureau, whose staff is entirely inadequate for the 
amount of territory to be covered. 
