THE BOARD OF HEALTH AND TUBERCULOSIS. 
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[Written Specially for the American Veterinary Review.] 
THE BOARD OF HEALTH AND TUBERCULOSIS. 
By A. S. Heath, M. D., V. S., Prof, of Hygiene, Breeding, and Zootechny, at 
THE American Veterinary College, New York. 
No. 11 . 
Dr. James Law, Professor of Veterinary Science in Cornell 
University, in Bulletin 65, for April, 1894, says : “ Tuberculosis 
is so extensively prevalent and proves such a veritable scourge 
throughout the civilized world that no disease is so deserving of 
close and accurate study, or of the enforcement of effective 
measures for its suppression. Cholera, yellow fever and small¬ 
pox, which occasionally invade our territory, creating universal 
terror and dismay, claim but few victims as compared with this 
ever-present, universally-devastating plague.” 
This being the generally accepted view of the veterinary, or 
profession of comparative niedicme^ as well also of the profession 
of human medicine, the boards of health should be composed of 
both of these eminent men of education and practical experience, 
and should have an accepted right to formulate regulations 
under legal enactments for the protection of the health of man 
and domestic animals. And, although the ignorant may object 
to humane sanitary restraints, yet the public good demands such 
beneficent regulations enacted by wise legislators, under the 
special education of the health boards. It is, then, both wise 
and politic that these noble organizations should be respected, 
aided, and upheld by the people. And especially as these 
regulations are beneficial to the general public as well as to the 
producers of milk and meat. 
Again I quote from Dr. Law : “In infected breeding and 
dairy herds in New York, consisting largely of mature cows, I 
have found a maximum of 98 per cent, and a minimum of 5 per 
cent. Again in healthy country districts I have found hundreds 
of cows in adjoining herds without a trace of tuberculosis among 
them.” 
