Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-04-20
The Benefits Of Milk Inspection.

tnan any other liquid food. 1t is
used more extensively for food than
any other liquid therefore of more
importance.
We will endeavor to discuss this
subject from a double standpoint,
VIZ: lst. Milk unfit for consump-
tion because coming from animals
suffering from some contagious dis
4 ease. End. Milk unfit for food or
deteriorated in value because of i'm
proper food or unhygienic surround
ings.
1. Milk is considered unfit for
food and oftentimes dangerous, from
animals afflicted with tuberculosis,
achnomycosis, bovine, variola or COW
pox, black leg, dysentery, fungus
& haematodes, contagious mammitis,
i garget, etc.
During the past year the writer has
discovered cows in this vicinity affect
ed with the following diseases: tuber:.
,culosis ,(consumption), achnomycosis
(lumpy jaw, cancer and garget.
All were at the time visited, giving
milk. Does anyone presume to say
that milk from those COWS was fit for
food? Let me here quote from a
most valuable and pertinent article
by DR.. J.. M. Emmert, M. D., ex-
member of State Board of Health Of
Iowa, read at a meeting of the Iowa
State Veterinary Medical Associa-
ton. Last winter Q898) the House
of representatives of this state Iowa)
sent DR.. Kennedy to the northern
part of this state to investigate case
!, of leprosy and see what was neces-
Hsary to protect the state from it's raw
ages. What farce! This is liter
ally straining at gnat and swallow
ing a camel. More people die of
Z tuberculosis in ONE MONTH than have
died Of small-po in the last TEN
YEARS. Now in my judgment tuber-
culosis is just as easily stamped out
as smallpox. Every case of tuber-
culosis comes from some other case
of tuberculosis in either man or
Il beast. There is no such thing as
spontaneous generation Of tubercu-
losis. Every germ must come from
pre-existing germ, grown in suit
able medium and must enter a suit
able medium to produce the disease
in man or beast. A large per cent of
the cases are caused by inhalation Of
4 germs floating in the air, and which
were thrown off by expectoration
!. from human beings, discharges from
the nostrils Of animals or from the
. bowels of both But this is not the
only way the disease can be contract
ed. Tuberculous meat and milk are
responsible for certain per cent of
these cases. Meat, if properly cook
ed, may be eaten with impunity, but
we do not yet understand what is
PROPERLY cooked tuberculous meat.
In my judgment large majority Of
bottle-f fed children who die and are
reported as marasmlls, cholera in
fantum and other wasting diseases
are nothing more than intestinal or
meningeal tuberculosis caused by
tuberculous milk. The day of the
Horse Doctor" is past and gone,
and the educated veterinarian has
taken his place, full of enthusiasm,
zeal and a desire to understand the
underlying causes of disease, and, if
possible, to remove them. You are
presumed to understand the diseases
Of animals, both alive and dead, and
explain and point out the difference
between diseased and healthy food,
especially meat and milk. This be-
ing the case, no man in the commu-
nifty can be of as much benefit upon
the local boards OF health as the
learned veterinarian, and I think the
time is not far distant when every
slaughter house, meat market, dairy,
or other place where food products
are bought and sold, will be inspect
ed and under the supervision Of the
local boards Of health
Were not the above article from
which we have SO extensively quoted,
an exceedingly meritorious one, we
would feel it our duty to beg the
pardon Of the readers Of this article
forsconsuming SO much space. We
believe, and hope that our readers
will appreciate the fact, that in milk
lies the cause of many of the ills Of
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