The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-02-23
BLESVILLE IN AN UPROAR.
Officers Of the Law at Work
Among It's Stables.
DISEASED COWS SLAUGHTERED.
The Origin and History Of Dreaded
Pleuro-Pneumonia.

melancholy day, indeed. was yesterday for Bliss
ville L. l.. and swil milk interests suffered sadly.
for the cohorts of the law down the
stables and made bloody work among the chief
sufferers from pleuro-pneumonia. These numbered
. score. Anticipating lively scenes this
occasion the HERALD reporter was Mt his post
early. aud through the courtesy of General
Patrick able to witness the performance of the
entire programme. The General. standing on one Of
the swll vats looked like a Roman emperor dressed
in blue and soft hat witnessing the bloody
in tho arena. True, the victims did not pa
rade before him and cry "Aue Cesar inperator mort
furl % setutaa," but they kept up weak. consump-
tive believing that was quite as touching to hear.
They seemed to know that crisis had arrived and
that the prolonged torture of slow death that they
had been suffering about to end. Doctors Nc
Lean and Bell the ground very early, and be-
fore nine o'clock had examined sixty-sx cows which
were permitted be driven to the slaughter houses
in johnson avenue. OF these animals Mr.. Henry
received thirty and Mr.. Moses May thirty. six
In permitting cows to be taken away the
examining doctors do not guarantee that they are
free from disease they only certify that they do not
exhibit pronounced symptoms. 1t is therefore the
duty of the Brooklyn Board of Health to have the
proper officers ready to examine the and say
whether the meat is fit for human consumption or
not meat inspector is specially detailed for that
purpose that the danger of bad meat reaching the
retail stores is not very great.
INSIDE THE STABLES
The ceiling of the stalls about seven feet from
the floor and is made of boards. No ventilation is
possible except when the doors which lead into the
alleyway at the cows heads opened, and this
not we'll be done in winter on account OF the cold.
The poor brute has to breathe the same air many
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quantity deadly poison that induces the disease.
Filth everywhere to be seen, notwithstanding
tho rigid regulations issued by General Patrick.
THE BUTcHERING
The butcher arrived about half-past one and soon
the appraisers Horewcp Abraham, Claws and
Pettte) were among the doomed twenty. which they
valued at ranging from SIS to $40 per head,
making total of $290, which will be paid by the
State. The first COW knocked on the head very
weak looking creature 1t did not have strength
enough to walk away fronthe men as they advanced
TO despatch it. Strange to say, however, it one
of the last to depart to the happy grazing grounds
1t took from twenty minutes before two
until about ten minutes after to kill the
twenty animals the work being done in
very rapid and humane manner, which re-
fected credit on the executioner After the
animals dead another butcher went among
them and slashed the hides in such way that they
would be of use for leather. The execution was
swearing Of the mob outside the fence. One milk
man, of Teutonic extraction. informed one of the
property SO. give two hundred dollar dot red
cow bees all right" he said. Another resident of
Blissvle was very anxious to purchase young ami
NAL from the General just before the slaughter and
walked of in disgust when he the object of
his admiration knocked over by the butchers
SYMPTOMS DISEASE.
The reporter had long talk with DR.. Mclean, and.
learned that one of the just killed had given
premature birth to q calf The Doctor said that II
aca arly mt he amin ctaI
by the disease that she could not retain her off,
spring. This is characteristic symptom of this in
fectuous disease. Distinction has always been made
between the contagious and non-contagious plouro-
pneumonia. The former is blood poisoning disease
of zymotc character. having certain but ill-dehned
incubative stage In fact the incubative stage is
from nine to ninety days. An animal may not show
symptoms of the disease but would carry it in her
tail or her hair and infect other animals. In speak
ing OF the cows killed Friday DR.. Mclean said that
the normal weight of lung is from two to three
pounds but he found weighing twenty-six in one
OF the animals Besides Drs. Mclean and Bell were
Drs. Hall. p. Nostrand and Hopkins of this city
No living animals are to be allowed to leave the
premises, except to go to the slaughter house. The
Inference is that onehaf of the animals in the stables
will be killed on the premises and sent to the ofal
dock The stables are infected, DR.. Mclean said,
that they could not be put in a safe condition for
cattle TO be kept in them Certain days to be set
down by General Patrick on which cattle may be
driven to the slaughter house
TALK WITH SUPERINTENDENT RAYMOND.
Sanitary Superin: endent Raymond. of the Brook
Ign Health Department, said to a HERALD reporter
yesterday that to certain extent he approved tho
proposed bill of the Milk Produce Exchange OF that
city tor the establishment of "a Milk Bureau of In
spection. lie thought, however, that the license
fee could be made lower than S25, which is the
amount contemplated to charge each dealer should
the bill ever became law There at present, lie
said about twenty-seven hundred inilkmen holding
licenses from the Health Board. For these they pay
nothing tho condition being that they will sell only
pure unadulterated and unskimmed milk. and that
they will not sell any milk from swili fed
cows. The Produce Exchange recognize. it APP
pears, but loo milk dealers. They confne
their estimate, the superintendent says. to tho
better class of dealers which accounts perhaps. for
the difference in the numbers of people holding
license from the Health Department and the esti-
mate OF the Exchange. Good must come of the
present agitation of the swill milk question: Dr.
Raymond said. as dealers III milk bccom
ing alarmed aud did not want TO let their customers
know that they had been feeding their cows with
each COW properly on dry feed and hay.
whereas the board per head at the Bliss
Tho Doctor stated further that he had been told by
one OF the men ut Blissve that some cows had been
kept confined In their stalls at that place between
three and four without being taken out for
exercise. Yesterday he said lie received communi-
cation informing him that since the authorities had
been making swill milk and diseased cattle
the number OF mkmen who bought milk AZ the
Erie Railroad Depot, Jersey City. had greatly in
creased.
AN ENGLISH VETERINARY SURGEONS VIEWS ON
THE HISTORY AND ORIGIN OF THE TERRrpI.E
DISEASE.
prominent veterinary surgeon of this city, rendering
some information the subject OF the cattle disease
about which there is so much excitement at present
reporter accordingly called upon him and the fol-
lowing interview the result
Il have come at your own suggestion to get
statement OF your views on pcuro- pneumonia, said
the reporter, by way OF introduction
well. l can probably post you up considerably"
returned the Gaen of the lower creation. IL Eng
fish BY birth. and lived long timc in tho western
counties when the rinderpest and the plcuro-pneu-
monia were raging. Ny uncle was government in
speetor of cattle in the district, that had
exceptional opportunities for obtaining views
upon tho subject. There has been a great deal of
plcuro-pneumonia there since 1871. l have prac-
tised tor twelve years"
Have you seen any cases of the disease in this
country"
"Ncyer, here; but haven't a single doubt that this