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thereof as being unwholesome and unfit for food unless it is 
officially condemned; however, these dealers should' not be cen¬ 
sured for not detecting spoiled foods or diseased flesh, as recogni¬ 
tion of such conditions, at least in many instances, is possible 
only by one skilled in this particular line. 
Aside from meat inspection duties, veterinary employees of 
the Bureau of Animal Industry have, in co-operation with state 
authorities, successfully eradicated the Margarapus Annulatus, 
the fever tick, from 57,520 square miles of infested territory dur¬ 
ing the last year. They have also diminished the infested area 
of scabies of cattle by 50,000 square miles and the infested area 
of scabies of sheep by 390,000 square miles. Other Bureau vet¬ 
erinarians have safeguarded the live stock industry of the United 
States from the importation into our country of such diseases 
as Surra, Rinderpest and foot and mouth disease, which is of 
no small financial concern to the animal husbandry of our 
country. 
Many veterinarians employed as sanitary officers for the vari¬ 
ous states in the Union have accomplished much in the preserva¬ 
tion of the health of animals of their respective states and indi¬ 
rectly of the people. Other veterinarians have rendered efficient 
sanitary service to many towns and cities in the capacity of milk 
and meat inspectors. The principal benefits obtained by city milk 
and meat inspection have been in the betterment of sanitary con¬ 
ditions and the maintenance of health of the human. No small 
part of the health in general of the live stock of the United States 
and indirectly of the health of the people, should be attributed 
to the ever watchful local veterinary practitioner who efficiently 
safeguards his community from the ravages of such diseases as 
cow pox, anthrax and rabies. 
There are many diseases of the lower animals that are com¬ 
mon also to the 'human, and the veterinarian is certainly best 
qualified to identify these diseases in the animal and to properly 
quarantine, destroy, disinfect and prevent the spread of such 
diseases to man. About 150,000 humans die annually in the 
United States of tuberculosis. That tuberculosis is transmissible 
