The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-02-25
Authorities on the Use Of TlbGr-
GIlil for Cattle.
A HEALTH BOARD OFFICER
Represented as Safe, Reliable and
Practical-United States Veterin-
airy Medical Society Endorses.

MR.. EDITOR:-In regard 10 tests
with tuberlin of which much has
been said, l will state they are still
being carried on here and will con-
tinue until otherwise ordered by the
Board of Health
Tuberculin is recognized the world
over as the most reliable, safe and
practical method of diagnosing tuber-
culosis, in the early as well as in the
later stages, that is in the possession
of mankind. In the Sixth Biennial
Report of the State Veterinarian of
Michigan, 1S95-1S96, E. A A Grange,
State Veterinarian, a practicing vete-
rinarian for the past 20 years and now
principal of the Veterinarian Depart
ment of the Detroit College of Medi-
cine, has report that is very extern
sive and covers a great deal Of ground
on the subject of tuberculosis and the
use of tuberculin.
The tuberculin test has proven ac-
curate in diagnosing bovine tubercu-
losis in the United States. The Unit
ed States Veterinary Medical Associa-
ton was led to adopt the following
resolution, at their meeting held at
Buffalo, n. Y. in 1896:
Whereas, tuberculosis of some of
sur domestic animals, and especially
Of cattle, is a wide spread and de-
structive disease; and
Whereas, The statistics accumulat-
ed during the year past show that the
disease is very prevalent throughout
this country, especially in the dairy
herds, indicating that it is steadily
increasing, except in States where &C
tive measures for its suppression have
been enforced; and
Whereas, There exists in some
quarters a difference of opinion as to
the relation of tuberculosis among cat
tie to the public health, notwithstand-
ing that this matter has been the OBJ
ject of careful scientific inquiry by
great number of eminent scientists in
all parts of the world, and that reli-
able and uniform observations are re-
corded in great numbers in the vete-
rinary and medical literature by it;
Resolved, That it is the opinion of
the United States Veterinary Medical
Association that the following points
have been demonstrated beyond dis
pute. and may be accepted as fully
established:
First, that tuberculosis of man and
cattle is identical
Second, that the milk from COWS
with tuberculosis udders may cause
tuberculosis in animals fed upon it.
Third, that the milk from COWS
with extensive tuberculosis, but ap-
parently healthy udders, may, in some
cases; contain the germ of tuberculosis
and cause the disease in animals fed
upon it.
Fourth, that in some cases the
germs of tuberculosis appear in the
milk of tuberculosis COWS that are not
far advanced in the disease and of
others that are healthy, so far as cows
be determined by an examination made
during the life of the animal.
Fifth, slightly tuberculosis cows
sometime succumb to the the sudden
eXacerbation of tuberculosis and fur
nish virulent milk for a period before
it is possible to discover their condi-
tons by means of physical examina-
ton.
Sixth, tuberculin furnishes incom-
parably the best means or recognizing
tuberculosis in the living animal.
Seventh, tuberculin, properly used
for diagonistic purposes, is entirely
harmless to healthy cattle and is so
exceedingly accurate in its effects that
the few errors resulting in its use can
not effect the general results, and are
OF less frequent occurrence than fol-
lowing the use of any other method
OF diagnosing internal diseases.
Eighth, that carcasses of tubercu-
lous animals may be and sometimes
are dangerous to the consumer, and
all carcasses, should be subject to a
rigid inspection by competent vete-
rinarian and those that are condemned
should be disposed of in such a man
ner that it will be impossible to put
them on the market for consumption
as human food.
Ninth, that the Importance of dairy
inspection cannot be overestimated.
and municipal and health authorities
should at once perfect a system of
commensurate with the vast import
ance of the subject.
Resolved, That the live stock. and
especially the breeding interests of
this country, can never regain their
former prosperity until such measures
have been carried out by the National
and State Government as will afford
some reasonable guaranty against the
continued ravages of this disease. And
IN view of the prevalence of bovine
tuberculosis in foreign countries and
the measures taken by some of them
to. protect their cattle from inspection,
the United States should prohibit the
importation of breeding animals until
they have been proven by the tuber-
eulln test to be free from the disease" /
Respectfully yours,
W. T. MONSARRAT. VS.