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 but one have been saved. More than 4250 packages of diphtheria anti-toxin have already been distributed and typhoid anti-toxin is now also being dispensed. Coöperative investigations are constantly being made by these two state organizations.

Through the efforts of the Wisconsin anti-tuberculosis association a state sanatorium for consumptives was established and at the 1911 session of the legislature a law granting state aid for a county system of sanatoriums was put upon the statute books and the Board of health is making strong efforts to effectually enforce it. A medal which was offered by the International anti-tuberculosis association to the state or country having the best law for the prevention or control of tuberculosis was awarded Wisconsin in 1908. The Board of control with its system for the care of insane and criminal and delinquent classes has been used as a model for several states and is on a high plane. Dairy and food laws have contributed to the cleanliness and quality of the dairy industry of the state and have assured state protection in the matter of food products. J.Q. Emery, the dairy and food commissioner, fortified by chemists from the university, has stood without flinching, a fire of criticism perhaps as great in a way as that directed at Dr. Wiley.

The state has expended large sums in all these lines—but it has been well used. Every cent of it is an investment which is now yearly bringing back many times its amount.