The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-31
TUBERCULOSIS.
Some Good Susgestions-How to Keep II
from Spreading.

Some Good uggestiOns-HOw to Keep II
from Spreading.
In paper read before the Illinois
Board of Live Stock Commissioners,
Prof. James Law, of Cornell University,
Ithaca, n. Y, gave the following rules
for eradicating tuberculosis, or holding
it in check:
l. Iuberculous persons are forbidden
to act as attendants on animals which
are to furnish human food, as also in
the preparation of the feed of such
animals.
q All tuberculous domestic animals
must be killed, but only on sufficient
expert testimony.
3. The carcass and products of con-
sumptive animals must be thoroughly
disinfected by heat, or by potent chem
ical disinfectants (murcuric chloride,
zinc chloride, chloride of lime, hydro
chloric acid, etc.
4. All herds in which tuberculosis
has appeared must be kept under eX-
pert surveillance, and any animal show
ing consumption must be promptly
killed.
5. Animals destined for human food
must have expert examination, both be-
fore and during slaughtering, and all
tuberculous carcasses must be DIES troyed
in such manner as shall thoroughly
disinfect them.
9. All buildings, clothing and uten-
sis used about tuberculous animal
must be thoroughly disinfected or de-
stroyed.
Z. The refuse of slaughter-houses
must not be fed to pigs, chickens, nor
other animals, until such products have
been subjected to thorough boiling for
several hours.
8. No food animals must be kept on
insufficient food, in cold, dark, damp or
draughty outhouses, or in close, badly
aired, undrained or filthy dwellings,
nor shall they be exposed unnecessarily
to severe storms.
Probably these provisions are more
elaborate and will prove more expensive
than could be at once secured, and it
may be necessary to fall back on the
examination before and during the
slaughter of all meat-producing ami
mails, the tracing to the herds that
furnish them of all tuberculous animals,
and the placing of such herds under the
rules named above. with such others as
may be found necessary. Also the ex-
pert inspection of all cattle furnishing
milk to cities and the enforcement in
the dairy herds of such rules as may be
adopted.
But whatever method may be adopt
ed it should always be carefully
guarded agains abuse, so that it may
neither be maze means of oppression
by INSCRIPTIONS inspectors nor meas
ure utilized so as to give at Government
expense a certificate of excellence to
the products of certain firms means Of
thereby controlling the markets. What
ever advantage or disadvantage accrues
from the undertaking, it should be
made absolutely impartial, and inspect
ors should be held rigidly to account
under heavy penalties for the thorough
ness of their work and its strict inn
Partially. The only object should be
the restriction of tuberculosis, acti-
nomycosis, CHAMBERS and such other dis
eases as are at once contagious to ami
mails and to man, and destructive to one
or both. The legislation should inter-
fere with trade not a hairs breadth
further than is absolutely needful, but
when such a result ID inevitable, trade
must give way and adapt itself to the
dictates Of sanitation, and not santa
ton to those Of trade.-0range Judd
Farmer.