The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-06-30
TO PREVENT SPREAD
OF ANIMAL DISEASES

culture and Forestry met yesterday
afternoon and listened to the regular
reports of the heads of the divisions.
Dr. Norgaard. head of the Division of
Animal Industry. read an interesting I
report on the diseases of animals found /
in the territory and made valuable !
suggestions to the board as to the |
methods TO be pursued in stamping
out the diseases. The report was re-
ferred to the committee on rules and
regulations and DR.. Norgaard Is at
present engaged in drawing up rules to
regulate the importation of cattle. Fol-
lowing is the report:
Honolulu, T. H, June rs, 1900.
Hon l.. A. Thurston, President, Board
of Agriculture and Forestry, Homo
lulu. T. II.
Sir: Pursuant to your request Tor
statement regarding the general pohcy
to be pursued by Territorial Veter-
marian in carrying out the law enact
ed by the last legislature for the sup
lpression and eradication of Infectious
contagious and communicable diseases
lamong the live stock in this Territory,
IL beg to submit the following
From personal observation during the
past four months, in connection with
information obtained from practising
veterinarians, stock breeders, ranch
men and others / have come to the
conclusion that the greatest source OF
loss to live stock, direct or indirect
Imay be traced to three diseases,
CHAMBERS among horses and mules
tuberculosis in cattle and scabies IN
sheen. None of these diseases Is in
|, digenous to the islands but have been
brought here by stock introduced for
, various purposes. The first step In
. suppressihg them would therefore seem
: to be to cut off the further source OF
, infection by means of effective regula-
tions governing the Importation of live
, stock, and the enforcement Of the same.
! Chambers though frequently insidious
, lin its course and difficult or impossible
, to detect on physical examination can
be guarded against so effectively that
the possibility of further Introduction
of the infection through importations
should be practically impossible; and
the means to this end, the mallein test,
has been accepted over nearly the en-
tire civilized world as the only remedy
for the successful and economic sup
preston of this disease.
AS California is among the states
! where CHAMBERS prevails to considerable
extent, and as nearly all the horses and
{ mules imported into this Territory come
I from. or at least through California, 1t
/ is not surprising to find that CHAMBERS
heads the list among the sources of
e loss to live stock in the islands. A
e rigid enforcement of the testing with
r mallein of all horse stock to be brought
r here is therefore necessary, but due
consideration should be given to avoid
/ causing unnecessary inconvenience, de-
n lay or expense to the owners, import
Y ers or consignees. Arrangements should
!, be made with one or more reputable
veterinarians on the coast whose GER
e tificate of mallein test would be ac-
: ceptable to your Board, and all Inn
t, porters of horse-stock should be re-
f quired to submit their animals to them
:, for testing; all horses and mules ar
: irving here without such certificate
r. should be taken Immediately to the
Y, Territorial quarantine station and KEEP
z. there until tested, all expenses to b.
(. paid by the owner. 1t might be claim
l. ed by the importer that in case N
10 gathered a shipment of horses ant
- mules in San Francisco and had then
W tested there, he would, if one or NOR
IF should react. have no recourse agains
g the former owner who might live {
IF hundred miles away. Such, however
W would only be the case when the pur
r. chase was made from an irresponsible
m party. At any rate the animel woul
I. be dead loss, including freight an
other expenses, II shipped to this Ter
ritory and when tested here were foun
to react. Only few months ago a
importation of mules arrived here fror
San Francisco with acute glander
among them. Two of these animal
n were shot on board the ship and tn
remaining ones taken to the quarantin
y station where they were kept unde
observation for six weeks. The los
and expense to the owners by far eS
ne ceeded the cost of any preventiv
s. measures which might have been take
r with this and many succeeding shiI
lments.
Experience alone will show which {
de the two methods, the testing befor
us shipment or after the arrival here wi
OF prove the most effective, and to til
40 owners, the least expensive. In cas-
or the testing before shipment shoul
prove satisfactory to all concerned
regulation by your Board prohibitin
ne the landing of horse-stock unaecompt
Loi MED by certificates of mallein tel
mt should prove effective. In any case
will be necessary to provide the pre-
ne ent quarantine station with faciliti'
en- for the testing of stock with either ma
OF lein or tuberculin.
re The second measure to be considers
ng is the suppression of CHAMBERS amor
ne the horse-stock now in this Territor
ne and the prevention OF its spread fro
as one locality to another. That glande