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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Spread disease, tuberculosis, as to which he gave evidence before 
the recent Royal Commission—a disease that caused such a 
large annual loss among our cattle, and whose reach appeared 
to extend through cattle to the loss of human life—would, at 
least, have been kept within much smaller limits. In this one 
respect a sum would have been saved the country large enough 
to maintain a veterinary sanitary service for a generation. In 
existing circumstances there was no uniformity of action and no 
centralization of the work done. He suggested that at the Board 
of Agriculture there should be an inspector to tabulate the cause 
of animals’ deaths. Every county or large district needed, and 
had plenty of scope for a veterinary officer, whose whole 
time should be devoted to executive work. It was highly de¬ 
sirable that the Veterinary Department of the Board of Agricul¬ 
ture should be in active touch with the veterinary profession 
throughout the country, with a progressive policy of its own, 
and with competent officers in every district, its aim being to 
render applied veterinary sanitary science second to the practice 
of no other country, but in advance of all other nations, as be¬ 
fitted a land whose flocks and herds were the finest in the world. 
In the discussion which ensued, Mr. Sessions’ views were 
unanimously approved, Mr. W. Hunting, ex-President of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, contending that the 
Veterinary Department of the Board of Agriculture greatly re¬ 
quired strengthening .—{Mark La 7 %e Express^) 
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