The San Francisco call., 1896-08-05
Over a Hundred Thousand Dol.
lars Represented at Yester-
days Meeting.
DOUBT as TO TUBERCULINE
Many New Points Are Embodied in
the Arguments of the Cow.
Owners.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,
q08 Broadwav Aup D.

l.
908 Broadway. Aug. 4.
A very important meeting of the dairy
men OF Alameda County was held this
afternoon at which forty dairies were rep
resented. Several arguments were made
and finally all the points were embodied
in the following interesting protest that
will be formally presented to the City
Council next Monday night.
There is now pending before your honorable
body proposed ordinance for the regulation
OF the sale of milk, etc., and certain amend
ments thereto suggested and proposed by the
Board OF Health of this city. The under
signed dairymen of Alameda County desire to
enter our protest against the adoption of GER
tain provisions of said ordinance and against
the amendments thereto suggested.
In the beginning permit US to state that we
are in favor of any honesl aud fair method for
the inspection of our dairies and for the pro-
lection of the public against the sale of impure
milk, but we strenuously object to a confisca-
tion OF our property by arbitrary methods
engaged in business in this community for q
good many years and we represent a consider
able amount of property and capital invested,
and we respectfully submit that our
business and our property are fully as
much entitled TO consideration andIprotecton
and respectful consideration as are those of
some OF the radical gentlemen and health
officers Of this city. We attended in a body
Oh Saturday evening last meeting of the
Board OF Health, the primary object or which
was the consideration of a proposed amend
ment to the proposed ordinance empowering
the Health Officials of this city to subject our
cattle TO what is known as the tuberculine test
before we would be permitted 70 sell any milk
in the city, and to condemn our cattle accord
ingly. Our protest was not only disregarded,
but it was unanimously proposed to test our
property by "all scientific methods" Under
this amendment the Health officers are made
the sole judges OF our cattle. and if they make
any mistake we have no redress. We do not
believe the tuberculine test, as it is yet at
least an experiment; it is direct descendant
Of the Koch cure for consumption, which has
proved an absolute failure.
AS DR.. Bradley, the city's Health Officer, said
Saturday night: at is failure cure for
consumption, but as q killer of cows 1t is a
success
There seems to be an impression among the
members of the Board of Health that were our
cattle 10 be condemned or killed the Council
would make some remuneration to US for the
loss sustained, but there exists no such author
ity.' And where by the mistake of the officer
healthy COW is killed, 1t is not only the loss of
the COW that we suffer, but the time, annoy
ance and expense of a lawsuit well as the
trouble and time of obtaining other cattle to
replace those so condemned or killed. We are
compelled frequently to replenish our stock
from places at long distance. The party
who sells to us is under no Obligation to sub
nit his cattle to any tubereuline or scientific
test. We are compelled to use our own judg-
the impossible expense OF taking veterinary
surgeon along to make test
Being purely local, the proposed ordinance
is unfair and unjust If it is to be applied, 1t
should be applied indiscriminately through
out the entire State and TO all dairy products