The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-30
ORInterest to Dairymen.
The Board of Health of Philadelphia
hos sanf ont fhe followino notice.

has sent out the following notice:
At a meeting of the Board of Health held
October 10th, 1894, the following resolutions
with preamble attached were adopted;
WHEREAS, 1t has been decided by competent
authority that physical examination alone Is
an uncertain and therefore unreliable means
of determining the freedom of cattle from
tuberculosis and
means of detecting many occult cases of this
disease and is therefore indispensable in
arriving at the knowledge that a herd of
cattle is tree from tuberculosis. therefore,
RESOLVED, That the Chief Inspector OF Milk
be and is hereby instructed to endorse as
Enthusiastically all certificates of the freedom
of herds of mich COWS from tuberculosis
that are not based upon the use of
the tuberculin test by trained veterinarians.
Resolved, That the ChieI Inspector of Milk
keep book in which shall be registered all
herds of milch COWS that supply the city of
Philadelphia that have been certified as free
from tuberculosis by the method approved
by the Board of Health also of such as have
not been thus reliably certified and which
are therefore suspicious which records
shall be open to the inspection of the public;
said records shall contain the names OF the
dealers supplied by such herds.
ResoLUed, That all producers of milk supply
ing the city OF Philadelphia who fail after
90 days. notice to furnish certificate or
clean bill of health of their cattle based on
the method of examination demanded by
experts and approved by the Board OF
Health shall be reported to the Board, and
be liable to have their milk rejected as being
Suspicious
BY order OF the Board of Health.
JOHN j. MCCAY,
Philadelphia, October Is. 1894 Chief Clerk.
The Dairymen's Protective Association
held its monthly meeting at the Farmers
Creamery, Eleventh and Wood streets,
Philadelphia, on Saturday morning, and
fixed the price of milk for November at
Al cents, thus continuing the October fig
ures.
The special business of the meeting.
and the reason for the unusually large at
tendance, was to talk over the ruling of
the city Board of Health. requiring all
COWS furnishing milk for city consump-
ton to be subjected to the tuberculin
test.
Some present ascribed the action of the
board to desire to help struggling veter-
narlans; others claimed they saw money
back of it; Others again believed 1t to be
scare to get an appro priation from the
coming Legislature for the use of tuber-
culosis commission. The majority, how
ever, expressed the belief that the Board
was honest in its intent and purpose,
but had possibly been misinformed, and,
in It's anxiety to protect the health of the
public, was overrating the danger from
the milk and overlooking very much
greater mediums for the spread of tuber-
culosls among the people.
A committee was appointed to confer
with the Board of Health and instructed
to say for the milk producers that the de-
mands of the Board were unwarranted;
to comply with them would put the
dairymen to great and useless expense,
and might lead to the useless sacrifice OF
much valuable stock. That the difference
IN opinion of experts as to the existence
of the tuberculosis in milk and the dan
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the disease IN making the test, the ques
tions these experts raise as to the ability
of the average veterinarian to diagnose
the disease and to apply the test were ar
guments against compliance with the de-
mand and the enforcement of the rule as
well. That the Board of Health was
overlooking the fact that the large num-
bers of consumptive people frequenting
the street cars, railroad stations, libraries
and streets are an infinitely greater men
ace to the public health than either milk
or meat would be, even if diseased; and
upon this all experts are agreed. That
the ruling was an unjust discrimination
against the milk producers and would be
resisted.
This committee is composed of w. T.
Painter, Lenape, chairman; Captain A.
A, Slack, Bradyville; w. S. Wyatt, Ex-
tor; III. w. y. IAIIY, hhihoSpVrti anu D.
P. Wills, Mount Holly.
At meeting of the New Jersey Divi-
sion of the Association, held at Camden
later in the day, the work of the morning
session was approved DR.. Parry, speak
ing for the Burlington county milk pro-
ducers, said: 81 think our farmers will all
resist the rule, and the people of Phil
adeEphia will be entirely satisfied to use
the milk as they have been doing when
they come to understand the situation.
! 1t is folly for the Board of Health there
to tolerate its dirty streets and foul water