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establish measures of control based upon those findings. It was,
however, likely that the Government military dairies would com-
mence efforts in this direction immediately with the cattle under
their control.

    Colonel Pallin stated that as far as his experience went the in-
cidence of tuberculosis in cattle in this country must be small, for,
as far as he was aware, no case of tuberculosis had been reported
among the cattle in the military dairies and the milk was sterilized
before issue. The question of applying the tuberculin test to the
cattle at the dairies had not yet been taken up, but he regarded it
as a practical suggestion. Evidently, it would undoubtedly supply
information of considerable value.

    Mr. Hewlett stated that a case of typical tuberculosis in a country
bred animal belonging to the military dairy farm at Jubbulpore had
been brought recently to his notice by the D. D. V. S., Southern
Command.

    Mr. Smith stated that during 15 years' experience in the military
dairy farms of which eight were spent as Controller of a Circle in
which about 27,000 cattle were under his charge and which were
maintained in an area extending from Quetta to Wellington, no
case of tuberculosis had come to his knowledge in any animal that
had died after attaining the age of one year. Post-mortem exa-
minations on at least four out of every five of the cattle that had died
were carried out by Members of the Royal College of Veterinary
Surgeons and not one authenticated case of tuberculosis was dis-
covered. At one dairy the disease was at one time suspected among
the animals and two animals were sent to Muktesar alive for observa-
tion. The animals were found to be suffering from Johne's disease.
One case was suspected at Quetta some time ago, but it was doubtful
whether it was in reality tuberculosis. He admitted that in the
districts the disease was sometimes discoverable, but he contended
that the chances of spreading infection in this country were very
small indeed, as by far the greater proportion of the cattle lived
continuously under natural conditions, in the open air.

    Mr. Krishna Murthi said that the first case of tuberculosis in
cattle was detected by him at the Madras Veterinary College in the
year 1916, and in the same year, when he was deputed to work in
the Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory, he found that Colonel
Glen Liston and Dr. Soparkar were engaged in investigating an
outbreak in the Zoological Gardens, Bombay, and testing the
susceptibility of Indian cattle. He added that the same subject
came up again for discussion at the Medical Research Section of the
Indian Science Congress last year. During his experience for the
last seven years he had come across about twelve cases of tuberculosis