Mr. Worcester, who was the high chief health authority in the Islands, decreed that all animals as they were brought in should be inoculated for rinderpest, tuberculosis, and a number of other things⁠—“including prickly heat,” said General Wright⁠—but it just so happened that a great majority of these scientifically treated beasts died almost immediately, and General Wright could always arouse the wrath of Mr. Worcester⁠—a thing he loved to do⁠—by suggesting that the only reason our cow lived was because “she had not been inoculated.”