The herald., 1893-01-16
INSPECTION NEEDED.
THE MAN WHO DIED WITH THE
CHAMBERS.
Dr. MacGOwan's Efforts to Destroy All
Gsstiges of the Disesse--California
the First State Where a Man
Died from 1t


named Jacob Mynders, whose stable
was on X street, about block below
the Golden Eagle hotel, Sacramento,
was called upon by man who said he
had sick horse but could not tell what
allied him. The horse was brought in
on the following dav and Milton Morri-
son, noted horse trainer of that period,
being present at the time, pronounced it
case of glanders and said the horse
should be shot at once. Mynders was a
conservative sort of man, Hollander
by birth, and said he wanted to examine
the case more closely before he entered
upon decision as to any disease. Nor
rison, after saying it was the plainest
case of glanders he had ever seen, left
the place in disgust. Two days later
the horse was led to the levee shot
dead and thrown into the river; and
five days later, Mynders died with the
same horrible disease. The New York
veterinary journals (the Spirit of the
Times among them) said that if such
were the case, it was the first case of
glanders in America that had resulted
fatally to human life. Since then, a
number of deaths to men have resulted
from this disease out never in any state
where there is good system of inspec-
tion laws for live stock, such ae there
are in Tennessee and Kentucky, for
instance. ....n 49,.
The HfRk4D,, WighiSg to have this
matter probed to the bottom, dispatched
one of its reporters to the house of DR..
MacGowan, the retiring health officer.
The doctor said, on being made aware
of the nature of the reporters visit:
"You cannot lay too great stress upon
the necessity, Of an an i'm i'm a mediate and forci-
BILE series OF laws to prevent recur-
renee of such a matter as this. 1t will
cost the state something, to be sure, but
not 1.-THE OF what it will cost in five
years hence if allowed to 90 on without
being checked, As it is, you cannot tell
how it will affect the values of highly
bred and costly horses that are now
being taken from this state for sale in
the eastern cities. People may say they
do not want to buy horees from coun-
try where there is no law to uproot in
fictitious Diseases A..3
''How would you propose to effect
remedy, doctor?" asked the reporter.
by enacting stock inspection law
similar to that of New Zes,land, which
makes series of district inspectors
under charge of one chief inspector.
They charge cents per head for the in
spection of sheep, 5 cents, for hogs, 20
cents for cattle and so cents for horses.
The money so derived from this inspec-
ton goes into fund for paying dam
ages for their destruction. If q CLAN
dered horse is shot, the owner is paid
for it out OF the moneys gathered by
the inspection tax"
What did you do in this case of lie
Guyer, the teamster?"
Il had everything destroyed, sir, that
could possibly tend toward the spread
ing OF that infection. | ordered the fur
niture destroyed, every bit of bedding,
chairs, bedstead and everything else in
the room where he died. and even went
30 far as to have dog and some chick
ems killed, just because they had been
about the stables where these two dis
eased horses had died. The city has
got to pay for that furniture anS for the
fowls. but not for the horses, of course" :"
How did this man come to hang on
to those two diseased horses after he
found out they were sick did no one
warn him? ?" asked the reporter.
"Of course, he was warned about it,"
said DIR. MacGowan, but what are you
going to do with an ignorant man and
one so poor that he can only earn about
So day over and above the expense of
feeding his team. This mans two
horses earned his living and that of his
wife and children. People go TO a man
like that and say, Here, you've got a
diseased horse, and he must be killed.
His first question is, who will pay for
him? | have got to have a horse to
earn the bread OF my family, and cannot
afford TO kill that horse unless | know
who will give me another to do his |
work. If you kill my horse you must
buy me another Just now there is no |
law to recompense man for the loss of |
horse destroyed in that manner, so |
there is no anxiety to have diseased |
horses removed. Americans will kill a
diseased horse on sight, but our for |
eign-born population are not go anxious
for the public safety. There is but one
way out OF 1.-THE enactment of law
like that OF which l have spoken. to
provide for general inspection tax,
out OF which owners of horres killed to
prevent the spread Of disease, may DE
reimbursed by the state. 1t will be the |
cheapest way in the long rum"