MILK INSPECTION. 
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the detection of tuberculosis in such animal. After such exam¬ 
ination and inspection of the dairies and dairy herds as herein¬ 
before provided, the Department of Health shall tag each and 
every animal so examined, which tag shall be of such a charac¬ 
ter as to afford a permanent record of such examination, and the 
result of the same as regards the presence or absence of an in¬ 
fectious or contagious disease.” 
These regulations here outlined are entirely praiseworthy, 
and Minneapolis is to be congratulated upon their passage 
through the city council. I have no. information as to how 
these regulations have stood the test of being put into practice, 
but it is safe to conclude that the men who were shrewd enough 
to devise this scheme would not lack ability to put it into exe¬ 
cution. Observe that this enterprising young city has a veteri¬ 
narian of the Health Department. The creation of such an 
office is just what we want in this city. It would be his duty to 
enforce good laws, which already form part of the city code, but 
which remain a dead letter, because no one is appointed to en¬ 
force them. He would have under his care the horses belonging 
to the city fire and police departments. But, most important of 
all, he could organize a system of milk inspection which would 
practically eliminate tuberculoiis milk from the city’s supply. 
Although Illinois is preeminently the State which should lead 
in such matters, it would be very much to her advantage if she 
would simply copy her Northwestern neighbor, at least so far as 
the tuberculin test is concerned. No system of milk inspection 
would be complete which did not protect the consumer against 
typhoid, diphtheria, etc., as well as against tubercle and other 
primary infections. The first is medical in its scope, the second 
is veterinary, but there is no good reason why they should not 
work in harmony. If the license to sell milk be made condi¬ 
tional upon possession of a certificate of veterinary inspection, 
nothing would be simpler than to make an additional certificate 
necessary proving that the premises from which the milk had 
come, had also been subjected to a medical inspection. The 
milk dealers might look upon this as the last straw that broke 
