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BRIBE-TAKING BY VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
advised in regard to changes necessary for prevention of further 
development of disease in every instance, and yet have ex¬ 
pended but about one-half the money appropriated and avail¬ 
able for this purpose. The balance is in the State treasury and 
the cattle it would have paid for are alive and causing danger 
to no one. ^ i • • 
We believe action to the extent taken in New Hampshire is 
advisable for the protection of public health. We have abund¬ 
ant evidence that there has been a remarkable reduction in the 
bovine tuberculosis existing in New Hampshire under the action 
taken and believe it to be reduced to about the minimum point 
consistent with expense. It can never be eradicated, but should 
be held in check at the lowest possible ebb largely by the sani¬ 
tary conditions provided by stock owners. We consider the 
herds of the State exceedingly free from disease and they can 
be kept so if the necessary precautions are observed.^ Educa¬ 
tional work in securing these conditions is as essential as the 
killing and burying of diseased animals. A reasonable expendi¬ 
ture in both directions will be found advisable. 
Irving A. Watson, President. 
N. J. Bachetder, Secretary. 
Board of Cattle Commissioners. 
BRIBE-TAKING BY VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
PURIFICATION OF THE PROFESSION FROM SUCH PRACTICES 
ESSENTIAL TO CONTINUED PROGRESS. 
New York, July 20, 1898. 
Editors A^nerican Veterinary Review : 
Gentlemen :—I note in the July number of the Review, an 
article entitled “ Bribe-Taking by Veterinary Surgeons ” ; and, 
while I agree with the Review that it does not exist to the ex¬ 
tent pictured by your correspondent’s informant, in his public 
onslaught made upon veterinarians in general in New York 
City, yet I feel certain that there were grounds for at least some 
part’of his statements, as I do not think they would have been 
made entirely unprovoked. And, while it is extremely har¬ 
rowing and humiliating, as well as disgusting, to read such 
statements, and to know that they have been publicly pro¬ 
claimed against a profession that has been struggling on this 
continent for the past quarter of a century for supremacy in 
everything that is elevating and ennobling, pioneered by one of 
the noblest of its members, whose one great aim iu life has been 
