The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-07-29

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oculated iato cattle tend to become To-
Called, while fowls may be fed on
bacilli contained in human sputa with
impunity.
In this connection L. Emmett Holt
(Diseases in Infancy and ChildhoodD
gives an illustration where near
large American city was a fancy stock
farm of registered Jersey COWS which
supplied milk for table use and in
fant feeding to a large number Of
families in the wealthiest part of the
city for a period Of over ten years.
At the end of that perior the tuber-
culin test was used for the first time
and 40 per cent OF these cows were
found to be tuberculous and were
killed by order Of the state board of
health.
Says Infection is Impossible.
"The diagnosis was confirmed by
autopsies upon the animals in every
instance. An investigation was insti-
tuted among the children who had
been fed upon the milk, but in only
one case of many hundreds could il
be learned that tuberculosis had devel-
oped, and in this instance II was by
no means established that the milk
had been the source Of infection It
should be stated that this was before
the days of sterillzed milk for infant
feeding. Besides the families that
took the milk in the case cited the
employees at the farm were accustom-
ed to drink the skinned milk in large
quantities daily as a beverage in place
Of water Many of them continued to
do this for years and yet not one Of
them developed tuberculosis
Now, If the transmission of bovine
tuberculosis is common or even pos
sible the farm whore large numbers
Of infected cattle are kept should be
the place where the disease would be
most observed, for here every oppor-
tunity for the requirement Of the dis
ease odght to exist according to the
accepted notion, because nowhere else
is there so much infected material
and nowhere else are the people so
exposed 20 the danger II any exists.
yet on a personal inquiry at over forty
dairy farms in New York. Illinois and
Wisconsin was told by the proprietor
in each place. who was personally ac-
duainted with many hundreds of peo-
l pie engaged In daiying IN his re-
spective locality that ne could not
recall single case OF tuberculosis
originating ia his community, yet
many members Of each family ais wen
as the dairy hands We're i'm the habit
of drinking large quantities Of milk
daily
Says Killing Of Cows Is Wrong.
while infection from milk may be
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infrequent and that the chief means
of communicating the disease even
in childhood Is by direct infection by
inspired air Numerous examples
might be mentioned where children
have contracted the disease from clos,
exposure to persons In the house
hold, but more often we are unable t,
trace the infection, because exposure
long antedates the development OF
symptoms. believe that the few
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! meat and milk are mostly destroyed II
the heat Of digestion and therefore w
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over this cou.try which .as for Il
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