The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-07


in the regular manner realizing per
haps $S5, which goes to the owner.
The actual loss is therefore $40, half
of which should be paid to the owner
from money appropriated for this pur-
pose, while the remaining 500 is the
owners loss.n
The same procedure viii apply even
IL only the hides and offal are used
and the owner receives but IS for the
same, his loss on the same priced COW
being then s35.
Norgaard's Report,
The report of Norgaard covers TWEEN
ty.two pages and is a complete resume
of the division of animal industry's re-
searches into conditions regarding the
health of cattle on this island. 1t com
prises not only recommendations for
future legislation, but describes new
manner of tubercllin tests that were
overlooked by a committee of an i'm
portant national body appointed to in
vestigate that very thing, but which,
nevertheless, will hereafter be adopted
here, clause in the circular letter de-
scribing this method to the dairymen,
who will now look upon the testing
with less qualms.
The most important clause in this
report which states that the cleaning
up of the herds may not be the ex-
pensive proposition it was first thought,
is reprinted in the leading box.
This report calls the "premature"
publication Of the work of the division
of animal industry unfortunate" in
melting against the use of meats from
animals reacting from the tuberculin
tests, and adds that this publication
was successful in keeping that meat
off the market.
Norgaard says further that his sug-
gestion to the board of agriculture
that an official quarantine pasture be
established for the segregation of re-
acting animals could not be carried out
as there were not sufficient funds to
make the necessary improvements.
The Use Of Tuberculin.
Norgaard quotes a number of resolu-
tions adopted by the international
commission on the control of bovine
tuberculosis. That commission held
that tuberculin, properly used, was an
accurate test; that exposed animals
should be retested at intervals of from
six months to year; "that any animal
having given one distinct reaction to
tuberculin should thereafter be regard
ed as tuberculosis that policy of
compensation be recommended as use
full and usually necessary as tenn
porary measure; that the meat of ami
mails slaughtered should be utilized as
far as possible and lastly "that the
control, to say nothing of the eradiea-
ton, Of bovine tuberculosis, is i'm
possible of achievement without the
hearty cooperation of the men who are
actually engaged in the cattle industry.
In discussing the resolutions regard
ing the various tests, Norgaard says:
T'But while we admit that both of
the new methods are impractical and
unreliable, the intradermal test has
received no consideration whatever and
is not even mentioned in the commits
sioner's report. This is so much more
remarkable as am of the opinion that
this method of testing may revolution
ize the entire system of bovine tuber
culosis control work and facilitate it
to an extent which was never dreamed
OFF,
This is the test that is to be used
locally. Speaking Of it in another
place, Norgaard says;
"Another fact which may have tend
ed to obscure the intradermal test is
that the article describing it in the
proceedings of the international con-
gress ON tuberculosis appeared in
French only and it was not until Doc
tors Baker and Ward of California
called attention to it at the meeting of
the Veterinarian Medical Association,
in San Francisco, in Septembr, last,
that it was decided to give it trial
here"
The Intradermal Test.
The test is described as follows:
HThe intradermal test was first
reported on by two French scientists,
Moussu and Nantoux, at the sixth in
ternational congress on tuberculosis. 1t
consists simply in the injection of a
few drops Of special kind of tuber-
culin into one of the two folds of
skin which are found under the tail
when it is lifted. The skin at this
place is very thin, soft and pliable and
what is more important, denuded of
hair. The authors claimed that in ami
mails affected with tuberculosis the in
lection of small dose approximately
three drops} of strong tuberculin would
cause more or less pronounced swell
ing of somewhat varying character of
the injected fold while the other one,
which is conveniently there for com
parison remains unchanged.
'fThis test has, during the months
of November and December, been APP
piled to nearly 200 animals, many of
which had been previously tested with
the subeutaneons test and consequently
We're known to be either sound or tuber-
culous. In every instance the results
with the new test proved identieally
the same as the previous ones and when
supported by post norton examina-
tions, the diagnosis was invariably
confirmed"
Summary Of Recommendations.
The recommendations OF NoTgaard
are complete and cover every phase OF
the situation. A number OF them have
already been adopted at the meeting
Friday night. Tho plan he then pro.
posed, and previously outlined in his
report 10 the board Of agriculture, com.
prised the following poinisi
10 reduce the number OF eentora