http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0063483
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alternative: TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE.
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is part of: Sessional Papers of the Province of British Columbia
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issued: 2014-11-21
issued: [1895]
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note: 58 Vict. Tuberculosis in Cattle. 679 RETURN To an Order of the House for a Return showing the number of cattle examined and those tested for tuberculosis by the tuberculin test, with a full report of the mode of procedure as followed by the Inspector, both before and after the injection of the tuberculin lymph, with a tabulated form showing the date of injection, kind and dose of tuberculin used; maximum and minimum temperature, both before and after injection; number of hours after injection when the temperature first exceeded the maximum of the previous day; the number of hours after the injection during which the temperature was higher than the maximum of the previous day; the amplitude of the reaction; date when killed and examined postmortem, and the absence or presence of tuberculosis ( + present, — absent). Also a return showing the condition of Mr. McRae's cattle with regard to the appearance and condition of the animals without the test, and the opinion of the Inspector as to their fitness for food, and his reasons for or against. J. H. TURNER, Minister of Agriculture. Department of Agriculture, 6th February, 1895. During the last year the number of cattle examined by the Inspector must have reached between four and five thousand, but those tested for tuberculosis by the tuberculin test was 442. In conducting the tests the following course was adopted by the Inspector :— Before injection four temperatures were taken at the interval of two (2) hours, usually beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 2 p.m., after which the injection of tuberculin began. Six hours were then allowed to elapse before the temperatures of the animals were taken. These were taken at intervals of two (2) hours, usually beginning at 8 p.m., and terminating the following day at 2 p.m. The kind and dose injected was two cubic centimeters (about 30 minims) of undiluted tuberculin as it was sent from the laboratory. In the case of yearlings and two-year-olds only one to one and one-half cubic c…
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title: RETURN To an Order of the House for a Return showing the number of cattle examined and those tested for tuberculosis by the tuberculin test, with a full report of the mode of procedure as followed by the Inspector, both before and after the injection of the tuberculin lymph, with a tabulated form showing the date of injection, kind and dose of tuberculin used; maximum and minimum temperature, both before and after injection; number of hours after injection when the temperature first exceeded the maximum of the previous day; the number of hours after the injection during which the temperature was higher than the maximum of the previous day; the amplitude of the reaction; date when killed and examined postmortem, and the absence or presence of tuberculosis (+ present, - absent). Also, a return showing the condition of Mr. McRae's cattle with regard to the appearance and condition of the animals without the test, and the opinion of the Inspector as to their fitness for food, and his reasons for or against.
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