Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-28
Cattle From New York's VirHs Estab-
lishment Go to the Abbatoirs.
THE NEAT SOLD AS FIRST-CLASS.
Hotel Men Are Horrified and Promise q
Rigid Investigation.
SINE DOCTORS SAY ITS ALL RIGHT

SleeEeSt beeveS that the markets aHOrQ, anO
these same animals are atterward returned
10 the abbatoirs and distributed over the
city to hotels and retail markets as prime
beef
That beet is not labelled "vaccinated, -
and nobody can tell except the butcher who
is and who is not eating at his table one of
the subjects of DR.. Pardee, the vaccine e1-
pert DR.. Pardee, when invited to-day,
re fused to give any details on the subject
except on the order of the Board of Health,
and at the Mulberry street headquarters no
such order can be obtained except from
President Wilson himself But Pardee ad-
nitted that the cattle were sent back to the
butchers to be nsed as food as soon as the
establishment over which he presides was
through with them.
A Herd Driven to the Butcher.
As the reporter approached the stable a
small herd of cattle, numbering about seven
or eight, were driven out its door. The
.zres were seen on their fanks in a disgust
condition. They had been lanced and ell
the virus withdrawn. Yet the sores were
raw and yellowish fluid trickled from
them. In appearance it was neither blood
nor virus. Still it might have been the
drainage of bad blood from the healing sore.
The most disgusting thing of all was that
nothing was placed over the sores. and they
were almost literally covered with flies
And these cattle, in this condition-were
driven dSyect to the slaughter houses of NJ.
Never & Son, foot of Forty-fourth street
and East river, distance of not over 800
feet from the vaccine farm. The city buys
the animals for the vaccine purpose at SIS
per head.
Experts admit that the subjects grow 10
be almost twice the size after the inccula-
tion, and consequently make more beef
than they would have had they developed
naturally. Is this normal growth?
The Sight Is Loathsome.
The sight of the animals when the awful
sores are at their worst is disgusting enough,
covering as they do space of three hands
on the poor beasts hanks Formerly the
application was made to the udders, but of
late it has been found to work as we'll on
the flank The hair is first shaved of and to
the scarifed, quivering flesh the vile stuff
Is applied Most everyone is familiar with
the loathsome, inhamed eruption peculiar
to efforts of vaccination of human being,
and to realize the terrible nature of the ap-
plicstion to the bovine for the benefit of
science and of humanity, one has only to
imagine q sore one hundred times as ugly,
and covering thousand times as much sur
face. As many as 2, 900 people can be vac
cinated from the sores of one animal
The city's vaccine farm" is situated on
the second floor 1t contains 13 stalls, the
frame work or which is a novelty in itself,
and was invented by none other than Par
dee. Each animal stall is so arranged that
the heads of the cattle are fastened between
two upright hickory posts just far enough
apart to enable them to breathe and eat
To this are added two long strips on each
side and two across the rear of the animal,
placing it as in q vice during the operation.
The Operation on the Animals.
When reporter entered the "farm" DR..
Pardee was standing on the right hand side
OF a young COW welding knife and bone
scapula- His assistant, J. J. Behan, stood
on the opposite side preparing place for
the incubation. First Mr.. Behan shaved
off the hair on both sides just forward of the
root of the tail for a space of about foot
square. Dr. Pardee took a six-bladed knife
or lance, and with all the sharp bades
opened at once from the same end, scarifed
q spot of about three inches square on the
clean hide. The virus was applied from
the bone scapula- Two inoculations were
made on each animal-one on each side of
the rump.
In the third stall from the one inoculated
on this occasion was young Durham whose
sores DR.. Pardee announced on sight, were
"ripe." He saw four beautiful" scabs in
readiness for removal. He said that he ex-
pected to get 1000 points from them. 1t
takes from five to seven DAYS for the sores
to ripen. DR.. Pardee Informed the re-
porter that only the healthy specimens of
cattle are used at the establishment.
Usually they are Durhams from two to four
wears old. Everyone of them is examined
by a veterinary surgeon before being
thereafter, or if they contract other dis
eases during incubation the virus might be
tatai TO human life.
The Firm Supplies the Hotels.
The fact that Mr.. Meyer & Sons is the
firm supplying almost all the hotels in this
city makes the hotel proprietors' interest in
the matter very great In fact a special
meeting of the Hotel Managers Association
is under consideration. ''Can it be pos
sible?" was the first utterance from Hiram
Hitchcock, Of the Fifth Avenue. 81 don't
believe they would dare to send any of it to
the hotels"
w. j. Jacques, the manager of the Murray
Hill Hotel, said that while he didn't be-
lieve anv of the vaccinated meat was sent to
the hotels, il was not pleasantto know that
the firm supplying them had it in their
slaughter house.
Mr. Ford, of Ford, Garrison & Co., pro-
prietors of the Grand Union Hotel, was
very strong in his language. 1t was ex-
planned to Mr.. Ford how the very finest
beeves are used for the vaccine purpose and
THAI this is the reason why the butchers
th HI 10 haip haef
this he became more excited and said an in
vestigation would be made.
DR.. Howley Hitcheren, of No. 19 Broad
wav, who is a disciple of the new school of
medicine, spoke in the most vigorous terms
denunciatory of the use of cattle at the
sbattoir previously subjected to incubation
with vaccine virus
He said: sit is incomprehensible that
such thing could be done in this the
18th century. The vaccine disease is in its
nature the most horrible of all diseases and
possesses within itself the elements for the
introduction of the most loathsome of all
diseases. When the disease element is once
introduced, it effects the entire organs, in
blood, bone, muscle and other tissues, it is
never eradicated, and while it may remain
latent for years, yet it will eventually show |
its terrible and deadly actions
Doctor Says It's All Right.
DR. Ewing, until recently connected with |
the Board of Health Of this city, and who |
is at present the Chairman of the Commit
tee on Hygiene of the County Medical So
cietv, did not commit himself when asked
about the disposition of the 80 head of cat
tie used at the City Vaccine Farm. He said
lie could see no possible objection to the
use of such meat by the public. He ad-
mitted that the treatment resulted in a |
blood disease which as such reached 10
every part of the animals tissues
"But," said he, "when the local sore is en-
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