The San Francisco call., 1896-06-26
HEALTH MEASURES AFFAIR,
Congress Asked to Defeat
Senate Bill Relating to
ViviSection.
Milk Inspector Dockery Wants the
Milk Permit of P. McDon ough
Revoked.

The Board of Health took an important
step at its meeting Wednesday when it
passed a resolution requesting the Cali
fornia representatives in Congress to OPP
pose the passage OF Senate bill No. 1862,
which is now pending.
This measure prohibits the use of live
animals for experiments and was intro
duced at the instance of the National So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails, which is opposed to vivisection for
any purpose whatever. The resolution
was introduced on request from the Bu-
reau of Agriculture at Washington, which
desires to use live animals while pursuing
its Investigations into the causes OF many
diseases of a dangerous character.
The board decided to send the following
communication to the Boards of Health
OF the various counties of the State:
Dear Sirs: The Board OF Health of the City
and County of San Francisco, desiring to CO.
operate with the Boards of Health of the va
rious counties OF this State in the extirpatlon
of contagious diseases. and principally tn ber-
culosls or consumption in cattle, desires to
call attention to the general prevalence OF that
disease in dairy herds throughout this State,
and TO the absolute necessity of combined
efforts for its eradication.
1t needs no suggestion by us, that it is to the
interest of owners of dairy herds to free such
diseases as the entire herd must soon become
infected, and within short time thus be lost
to their owners.
The Board of Health OF this City and County.
following the wise example set by the United
States Government, has begun the inspection
of dairy herds in this City and County by the
United States tuberculin tests, in conjunction
with the Boards of Health of Santa Clara and
Alameda counties, and will continue such in
spection until every animal in these counties
has been inspected with the United States
] Nr.1.a 1s~,A Il
from consumption.
We desire 10 call your attention to the fur
| ther fact that the milk ordinance of this CITY,
recently passed, grants to this board the
power to inspect all dairy herds furnishing
milk to this City and to quarantine against
milk from cows not thus inspected, and we
after October l. 1896, we shall quarantine
against all dairy cows and the milk from dairy
cows that have not been inspected by the
United States tuDerculin test, according to
the rules and regulations of the United States
Agricultural Department Bureau of Animal
Industry.
A complaint from residents of the dis.
trict about the intersection of Sansome
street and Broadway that chemical fac
tory there is creating a nuisance was re-
ferred to Health Officer LoveIace for in
vestigation
The board, by unanimous vote, con-
demned the sewer on California street.
| which terminates at Walnut street without
an outlet, and also the one on Walnut
street terminating at California street in
the same manner. 1t was decided to ask
the Board of Supervisors to remedy the
matter by having the sewers joined TO an
outlet into the sewer on Central avenue.
Milk Inspector Dockery sent in a COM
munication recommending that the milk
permit of P. McDonough, rancher on
the San Bruno road, be Cancelled because
of his habit of permitting his cows to feed
in the morass near his place. 1t was de-
cided to give mcDonough chance to de-
fend himself at the next meeting of the
board.