MUNICIPAL VS. STATE CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS. 
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this inspection is confined to the dairies located in the city 
limits, and only protects the milk supplied by them, and as the 
city supply from local dairies is less than one-twentieth of the 
entire quantity used, the protection is a failure to the competi¬ 
tive disadvantage of our local dairies, and to the advantage of 
suburban or country milkmen, thus making the competition 
unfair. In other words, we rid the local dairies of tubercular 
cows, but we do not make our general milk supply any better 
protected. It, therefore, becomes self-evident and more fitting 
that this disease should be controlled by the State laws and 
regulations with the aid and inspection of the various local 
Health Departments in this way. 
To-day I understand that animals coming in this State are 
tested with the tuberculin test, and many of those that fail to 
react are shipped to Pennsylvania and Massachusetts because 
they will not receive animals except they will pass the test, 
while those cattle they do not want, and those that are ^not 
tested at all, are sold in this State. Thus the cow stable door 
is wide open. So, if the State began at Buffalo and kept tuber¬ 
cular cows out, it would be an excellent start. Then by a dis¬ 
trict systematic inspection of rural districts our out-of-town 
dairies supplying milk to our large cities would be controlled; 
that would be two forms of inspection. Then, as an extra pre¬ 
caution, our cities should establish a quarantine station for all 
cows shipped into the city, and all cows with State certificate or 
tag could either be tested or passed, while State cows shipped 
into the cities could be detained for a test. This would shut 
the door against the disease all along the line, and then to lock 
them the city could make the local inspection or test in our 
city dairies, and there catch anything that had escaped detec¬ 
tion or acquired the disease in the dairies, and at the same time 
our local Health Department should be given the privilege of 
making inspection on State authority or with a State inspector 
upon any herd of cattle whose milk was sent to our city. 
To conclude, all district inspectors, quarantine inspectors, 
and local departments of health could report all cases of tuber- 
