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GEORGE N. KINNELL. 
“ Tuberculin, Slaughter and Sanitation in the 
Eradication of Tuberculosis,” is the title of an extremely 
valuable and interesting article contributed to this month’s 
Review by that sterling observer and writer, G. N. Kinnell, of 
Pittsfield, Mass. It is the prosecution of such practical exper¬ 
iments and their collection and presentation which go to build 
up our pathological knowledge, and the profession must feel 
under a debt of gratitude to the author for his painstaking and 
complete data and deductions. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
TUBERCULIN, SLAUGHTER AND SANITATION IN 
THE ERADICATION OF TUBERCULOSIS. 
By George N. Kinnell, Veterinarian, Pittseield, Mass. 
As bearing on the question of eradicating tuberculosis from 
a diseased herd and of the competent disinfection of a tubercu¬ 
losis-infected building, I beg to submit report of my experience 
in two cases, an experience which has stood the test of the past 
four years, and where the conditions which obtain to-day are to 
all appearances and in every probability entirely satisfactory. 
First we will take the herd of Mr. W. D. Sloane, of Lenox. 
In December, 1894, this herd comprised the following animals : 
Mature milch cows, 22 ; mature bull, i ; young bull, i ; young 
stock (heifers ranging from six months to two years old), ii; 
total, 35. On Christmas Day, December 25, 1894, the twenty- 
two milch cows were submitted to the tuberculin test, and the 
temperature chart of the reactions obtained is herewith sub¬ 
joined. 
Chart of Milch Cows. 
Herd Nos. 
42 
102 
102.6 
102 
101.8 
*30 
102.6 
106.6 
107.4 
34 
102.125 
102.4 
102.4 
102.4 
*45 
101.4 
105.8 
104.2 
105.4 
*40 
101.5 
102.6 
104.6 
106 
*28 
100.8 
103.2 
103.2 
104.8 
*14 
lOI 
103 
105 
102.2 
