Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-30

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mot counted, but very highly infected with
trichine.
The infected animals were reported as hav-
ing heeu received from the following places:
st. Louis IS. Louisville 2, and from the West
marked unknown" 2 making total OF in
fected hogs %. Six rats taken in the build
ings of the slaughter house company and ex-
amined by the microscope were found to have
no trichipR.
The St Louis hogs were kept in pens by
themselves, and some of them remained at the
slaughter house for nearly month before
they were killed .e.e
In some Of these st. Louis hogs it was OBJ
served that there was an old, and also q recent
infection, some of the trichin@ being very
young, and others encysted and showing that
they had reached state OF maturity.
In one instance three full grown trichine
we're enclosed in one sack.
In one case gritty particles were found In the
muscle and were believed to be the result of q
very old infection.
A considerable variation In the size of the
trchinae was observed not only in the young
but in the fully developed parasites.
Some of the young trichine we're held under
observation for nearly an hour, but in one in
stance only could it be said that one of the
worms appeared to have made little pro-
gress in his journey through the muscle A
number of the young trichinB seemed to be
forming about themselves a membrane much
in the way the maggot Of the common house
fly forms his pupa case.
The observations made here appear TO estab-
| lish the fact that hogs infect each other when
enclosed in the same pen, and do not depend
rn%o fFfnN III iotn 1aOot tlaa
| parasite is passed out of an infected animal
| along with undigested food, and the food is
| then eaten by sound hog, who in turn be-
| comes infected
By this series of examinations it has been as
| certained that Southern bred hogs are free
frem trichin8. All the hogs infected with
| them are corn-fed animals. No mastfed ami
NAL was found 10 be infected. The swill-slops
| and offaI-fed hogs appeared to have the fair
est and best meat when inspected by the un-
aided eye, but under the microscope their
flesh presented bad appearance, being cloudy
and the cells often broken down and disorgan-
| lied, as If the tissue were inf1ltrated with
| particles Of dirt. The corn fed hogs were the
| most solid and showed the best fibre. The mast
| fed hogs were oily and soft. The clover fed
hogs were rather poor, and the fat had yell
| lowish tinge.
1t was found to be a very easy matter to de-
! eide on what kind of food an animal had been
| raised by an inspection after he had been
| slaughtered and dressed for market.
| The sanitary recommendations made were as
| follows:
An improved trough should be made to con-
| tain the food of the hogs, and corn should not
| be scattered over the floors OF the pens, as is
| customary at present. for by this means the
| corn finds Judgement in the dung, and thereby
| becomes a vehicle of infection. The pens
| should be kept very clean. When one hog of a
| lot is found to be infected with trichinB, the
| animals should be separated, and not more
| than one hog placed in pen.
| By a rigid system of inspections, It'll possible
| to prevent the sale Of fresh pork infected by
| the trichinB spiralis.
Neso Orleans, October 81, 1881.
DR.. G. A. Simpson, now Of Roswell, Georgia,
| writes: up to July 1st, / examined micro
scopically thirty hogs without finding trichinB.
In most cases two to four parts of each hog
were examined. In a few instances only one
| part was left unsold, when reached the butch
| er stall. These hogs we're raised in Tennessee
and Georgia. The majority OF them from
| Tennessee"
| This investigation, though limited in numbers
| by the season of the year, and by the removal
| Of DR. Simpson from Atlanta, corroborates the
conclusion forced by the New Orleans investi-
| cations and figures, that trichine are not found
| in Southern raised pork.
offer also a report of examinations lately
made at Nashville, Tenn, by Prof. R. w. Ste
| ger NJ ID. DIR. Steger reports 1S0 hogs but no
| trichin8
The New Orleans Sanitary Association con-
| ceives that its Investigations carry results of
| wider Importance than the demonstration that
| the danger to pork eaters of New Orleans from
| trichina is exceedingly small. 1t proves that
large portions of the country are entirely free
| from them, and that in certain parts of the
United States hogs can be packed for foreign
markets, with the great probability that the
| safety of the consumer lies, not in careful
cooking. but in the sound health of the animals
Important problems to be settled are
the preliminary determination of the
extent and marginal lines Of in
fected and non-infected districts; another
l nv restrictions hQg1N scientific
| vations and recommendations, prevent the
spread Of infection into those now fortunately
not ihfected to adopt measures to diminish
| infection where now existing and il not posi-
BILE to eradicate the nest. bring it both in fire.
quency and in evil TO a minimum.
| The association asks further, If the time be
| not rife, not alone to endeavor to secure ex-
| animation of slaughtered animals. and rejec-
| tion Of the unsound, but to include in the scope
| of investigations and remedy rinderpest,
| swine fever, splenic fever of cattle, and in
general all the diseases and parasites of food
| animals, and the adoption of general measures
| whereby the movement Of live food animals
shall be under inspection, and none be passed
from one district to another save by certificate
of a qualified veterinary surgeon or medical
officer.
The Sanitary Association perceives that only
national authority and means are competent to
attain the ends believed necessary. It. there
fore, prays the American Public Health AsSo-
citation to refer the matter to such committee
as it may deem proper, and adopt resolutions
Calling Oh ING O6u6Tdl 0ON6Fuu16uG IOf Cfl6 iii
mediate organization of the inquiry and for
such action by Congress as may be found
requisite.
Paper No. ". of the programme, on the
subject of
"TRICHINE sPIRALIs,"
by DR.. j. M. Partridge, of Indiana, was then
read, as follows:
The ancient Romans sought to improve their
race in physical vigor by destroying their fee
| BILE and detormed offspring And the Greeks,
| in their admiration of the human form in the
beauty of its perfect and healthy development.
deifled and worshiped the GODDESS Hygea But
the sanitarian of to day, by the aid of medicine
| and surgery, not only seeks to develop the lee
bic into the full strength and vigor of man
| hood, and to restore the deformed and un-
| slightly to perfect forms of health and beauty,
but he does more and better for humanity. He
goes without, and by the aid of the laboratory
and the microscope. he discovers and brings to
| the light the deep hidden and hitherto mystic
rious causes of disease, deformity and death.
| Pursuing these investigations the subject Of
| parasites and parasitic diseases demands
| at least some portion of our attention.
| Parasites infest both the vegetable and ami
| NAL kingdoms and are doubtless transmissable
/ from the one TO the other. 1t is well under
| stood and susceptible of proof that carnivorous
animals obtain their parasites from their food,
| that is, from the flesh OF their victims, and in
| the absence of proof to the contrary, it is fair
to infer that herbivorous animals obtain para
| sites from the vegetable food on which they
| subsist, and it appears that diseased or blight
| ed vegetation is most likely to be infested with
| parasites, and moreover, that the blight in
/ plants is parasitic disease. 1t Is universally
| observed that famine and pestilence go hand
in hand, and it is evident that the pestilential
| diseases which famines engenoer, are due, not
so much to an actual scarcity Of food as to the
unhealthy or diseased condition of the same.
| The law of migration and development of
/ parasites, although as vet but partially under
stood, is certainly full of the deepest interest
| and worthy of the most profound investiga
| ton: and that student of nature who shall
| table parasites, with such satisfactory results
| as have attended Cobbold, Lenckhart and Zen
ker 10 their researches among animal para
| sites, shall not only like them bring treasures
| of knowledge of inestimabls value into the
storehouse Of science, but shall also write his
name high on the immortal tablet of fame
But the department of medicine and sani-
| tary science is most interested 10 investigating
the origin, history and destiny of those para
sites affecting animals and especially the hu-
man race.
OF these there are thirty. one distinct species
/ found in man alone; some very numerous, and
/ others but seldom seen; some are monsters in
| size, and others invisible to the eye unaided
| by a powerful microscope. There are also
/ different Species and different varieties of the
| same species in different countries and races
! of men. One variety of the tape worm 0senia
| echinococus) Is found among the islanders;
| another (teenia ulediocanellata) has partiality
| for the Russian stomach; the long tape worm
| (v@nia solium) is found most commonly in
| Great Britain; and the broad tape worm
| (bothriocephalus latus) prevails on the conti-
| nent OF Europe; and these last two varieties
| are found to some extent this side OF the At
| lantic while the ascaride inhabits infantile
intestines and tortures infant nerves In all
| lands and among all nations.
10 the development and migration of para
sites, we notice that they haYe different forms
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