The morning call., 1890-06-19
DISEASED COWS.
Sources of Impure Milk Found
by Inspectors.
"COw Hollow" Full of Unhealthy Animals.
Whose Milk Is Peddled = Sick
Beasts for Sale.

party Of officials from the Board of Health
consisting of Or. Davidson. DR.. MeQuesten, Sec
reiary Roesch, Market Inspectors Wray and
Duyal and Health Inspector Burns, made visit
yesterday morning TO lie milk ranches In the
district bounded by Union, Polk and DeVisadero
streets and The bay known as Cow Hollow
The object OF the visit was TO investigate GER
tain complaints made 10 the board that the
dairles there located are in 4 diSgustingy filthy
and unhealthy condition. and that the cows kept
there are very badly diseased; that the cows, OF
which there are about 500 In the district, all
kept in stalls, ale fed on all sorts of refuse and
decayed matter and the water they drink Is full
OF sewage, and that under such conditions the
milk OF these cows. which is consumed by city
residents, is most unfit for use and calculated TO
cause much sickness.
No NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The visiting party found that tile situation had
not been exaggerated. thorough investigation
was made and very serious state of affairs dis
covered. " The majority of the dairieS" states
DR.. McQuesten " j found in filthy condition.
The cows were nearly all sickly many OF them
suffering from tub IculO>iS OF conSumpliOh;
some had tumOrS, ulcers and assesses on differ
ent parts of their bodies; some had bad assesses
on their uddeIs. the SecretiOns OF which ire
quently fell into the miik-pal. HE food on
which the cows are led swaIms with bacteria,
worms. etc"
over twenty cows in the last stages of tuber.
culoSs or consumption were found, some oil
terribly diseased that Inspector NTay killed her
right Then aud there 10 put her out of her misery
Nine Others were condemned on sight ana or
deIed sent 10 the rendering works at South san
Francisco at once.
DISEASED COWS FOR SALE.
AT one dairy, where five sick cows were found,
the proprietor was asked why lie aid not Kill
them. lie eplied by asking Why lie should XIII
COWS that gave from four 10 i've gallons every
day. In another dairy The owner bad placed
some diseased cattle In a separate pen, and when
asked what he intended to do WIN them. said he
was waiting for some one 10 buy them.
"N hO buys such sick beasts? Chlnamen?" he
was asked.
MOT much" lie replied "Cnlnamen Will not
eat such meat. l sell them 10 White men,"
The medical men Of the party were asionished
at the sights seen, and stated that II would be I'M
possible to compute The amount OF disease and
The deaf lis that might be traced QlIeely 10 these
diseased COWS.
full report Of what has been discovered will
be presented Tonight 10 the Board OF Health at
lis stated meeting, and II Is expected that quite
a humber OF diaries VIII lie condemned. One eS-
peclally was so filthy that itwas condemned at
once, and The necessary papers prepared on tie
return OF the party 10 the Office.
AN INSPECTOR IN ORDER.
II is not unlikely that the appointment OF
MIX Insl ecIOr VIII be made al once, and that
those darles not condemned VIII be ordered 10
remove from lie district 10 other quarters lmne-
dialely. The law prohibits feeding brewery
swill TO cows, and the sale OF mills dawn from
swiilfed cows is also prohibited. Both these
violations OF The law ale pTdctlced daily, Dut no
arrests are ever made.
or ali the daiTies inspected only one was found
in which the animals were not diseased. 1t was
that Of Mrs. {. j. Marble on Steiner and OctaFla
streets. But II Is only question OF llme- II lie
co rs there kept in the infected district, be-
fore they Will be as di seased as tie others.
To-day the Inspectors Will again VlslL The dis
trct and resume their iuyeStlg tiOn.