Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-31
THE DOCTORS AND THE SWINE.
The Hog I'm the Knox County Medical So
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The HOG I'm the Knox County Meuhe"h ~
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The meeting of the Medical Society, held at
Rodgers drug store last night, was largely at
tended, and much interest was manifestea IN
the subject for the evenings discussion the
hog as a sanitary agent"
Dr. Ludlow was the essayest OF the evening
He was sorry that the practice OF letting hogs
run upon the streets was upheld by any respec-
table physician and by some of the board OF
Aldermen. The day was past when we could
depend upon hogs, turkey buzzards, and blue
bottle flies for policing purposes
Hogs running upon the streets leave much of
fensive offal and feas, besides being q nuisance
tain parasitic diseases that they deserved the Sc
rious attention of the Society. The common
tape-worm oscillated between the hog and man
and was found most frequently In those
countries where the intercourse between man
and the hog was most Intimate, as III
India. The hog eating the deJectlohs OF nuLlia aL
beings affected with tapo-worm, suffers with
that disease known as measles" and II TINS
meat is eaten it produces tape-worm IN the IN
dividual who eats in, and thus may be widely
spread very loathsome disease. &c.
This 'measly pork, is not recognized unIess
on close inspection. The remedy evidently was
to place the hog where he couldnot get at those
detected matters. Again, if hogs are allowed
to run loose we must keep dogs to protect our
selves from their ravages, and they, TOO, are
propapators ofparasitic diseases of very serl-
Gus character especially the tilea echinoeoceuS.
The germs of this disease are dropped around
and If taken up by the system, produce hydGt'd
tuuors which are often fatal to life. Hence
the necessity of reducing the number OF our dogs
to a minimum. ~ -.
DIR. Rodgers said there were many reasons
why the hogs should not be allowed to run on
the streets They create more offensive matter
than they take UP. Many feed their hogs upon
the sidewalk which makes great amount OF
filth. He regarded it q disgrace to our city.
DIR. Tadlock gaveit as his opinion that the
running of hogs upon the street was detrlmen-
tai to the health and morals of our city. AS q
scavenger, the hog was certainly failure
Dr. Burnett said that as we were now discuss,
| ing his swineship as sanitary agent, 1t would
be we'll enough to call the attention OF our City
Fathers to the intolerable nuisance caused by
some hogs that were not running at large.
In some portions of the city the pig pens
were as great q pest as the hogs upon the street.
He asked if there was no ordinance against this,
and if there was, why it was not enforced be
| was informed there was such an ordinance.
Further remarks were made by Drs. Mcln-
tosh, Alexander and Deadrick.
The following resolutions were then intro
duced and adopted unanimously
Resolved, That it is the opinion of the mem
bers of the Medical Society OF Knox cou MY
that the running of hogs on our streetsls often
| sive to decency, is inefficient as q means Oh
policing and removing offal, dangerous to the
health of the community and a common NUS
ance to Society. nar ...... .... (!