C
434
Hongkong 27th May, 1886
My Dear Lockhart,
A Good Vet: would be a boom; bad one an intolerable nuisance.
In the matter of inspection Government want advice. For example I'm told that the Inspector visits the Dairy Farm twice a week and presume all the other cattle are inspected as frequently. This is a sure and certain way of spreading disease; as one who knows anything of the extreme communicability of pleuro-pneumonia and rinderpest will easily understand.
The duty of an Inspector should be to prevent introduction and not to foster disease and be the vehicle of it.
An intelligent Vet: acquainted with the working of the home cattle regulations would put the Government...