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Worse Than Pleuro-pneumonia

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Day
25
Month
October
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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Continuing, Inspector Devoe said: "Although we have almost stamped out pleuropneumonia, we have cases every day of a disease which. in my opiniĆ³n, is more dangerous to botn the human and brute family - that is tuberculosis, or consumption. While it is more dangerous than pleuro-pneumonia, its existence would not keep the district in quarantine. "There is no law which empowers us to destroy or condenan cattle afitticted with tuberculosis, and when we flnd it iu an animal all we can do is to ad vise its owner to destroy it, ior his own good and the good of his stock, for it is not only contagious among the cattle, but can be transmitted to the human family through its milk and in other ways. To prove this assertion we killed a cow last week afflicted with it, and, on an autopsy being made, tubercles were found in its udder, or milk bag. In many cases where the inspectors find the disease very acute, thev take the law in their own hands and

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Ann Arbor Register