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CORRESPONDENCE. 
science which the Legislature' has endorsed, not only by the 
statutes regulating veterinary-sanitary work, but also by special 
legislation directed to the improvement and elevation of veteri- 
nary education and practice in the State. 
Whereas, it appears that at the Fanners’ Institutes con- 
ducted 111 the State of New York, one Doctor Sinead has for 
seveial years been employed at State expense to instruct far¬ 
mers on the subject of tuberculosis in farm animals ; and 
Whereas, The said Doctor Sinead has on such occasions 
systematically done violence to the well-established bacterio¬ 
logical doctrines of the disease and sought to poison the mind of 
the agricultural community by antagonizing all sound leeal 
measures for the extinction of said disease, or the restriction of 
its prevalence ; therefore, be it 
Resolved^ That this meeting of the New York State Veteri¬ 
nary Medical Society hereby denounces and condemns the ac¬ 
tion of the director of the Farmers’ Institutes in this State in 
thus employing public funds in the subornation of sanitary 
knowledge and work, and in contributing to the maintenance 
and extension of that contagious disease which is very widely 
spread among the animals who furnish our meat products and 
which causes a larger mortality in the human race than any 
other disorder. ^ 
Resolved^ That this Society shall express and hereby ex¬ 
presses Its grateful thanks to the County Veterinary Medical 
Society tor the courteous reception which they have tendered us 
and for the handsome entertainment furnished in the illumin¬ 
ated trip on the trolley car, the luxurious banquet and the many 
and v aried means of enjoyment at the suburban seaside resort. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
THE 
IDIOSYNCRACIES OF THE TUBERCULIN TEST. 
A ' Tr ■ i^ROOKLYN, N. V., Oct. 17, 1898. 
Rditovs A}}t€vtcci 7 i VctcviAiciTy Rcvicui) .■ 
Dear Sirs: I enclose you the following copy of a letter 
addressed by me to Assistant Sanitary Inspector Black, of this 
borough, in reference to a matter which is clearly demonstrated 
in the communication. I would be much pleased to have you 
express your opinion as to whether I was or was not justified in, 
ailing to condemn the animals as tuberculous by the reactions 
Very truly yours, 
W. H. Pendry. 
