Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-01-03
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Cow Dies From Tub
erCuIOSiS
SAYS DR.. CARRATT
An Entire Herd May be In
7. OCuIated
WITH THIS AWFUL DISEASE
According 10 His Opinion Different Methods
Of Transmission.
WITH THIS AWFUL DISEASE
According 10 His Opinion : Different Methods
Of Transmission.

To the people of Marietta the infor
nation that they and their children
are subjected every day to one of the
most fatal diseases. traceable directly
to the milk which is sold and is used
on hundreds of breakfast. dinner and
supper tables in the city while The con-
sumers fondly imagine that they are
taking into their systems the most alb
solutely pure and healthful edible
product of either natural or artificial
production, would be regarded as only
the vagary of an idle or stupersenSitive
imagination. Yet Notwithstanding the
preconceived notion that obtains
among all classes in regard to the pur-
ity of all milk offered for sale, in Mari
eta, tin fact still remains 4lnat
through this widely used beverage the
bacilli of that fearful disease. tuber-
culosis, are being absorbeduuinito the
system of old and young alike As. an
instance and a proof of the foregoing
statements, the following case is, cited.
Some days ago, DR.. w. d. Garratt
was called uDon to treat sick COW
which belonged to the herd of well
known dairyman who supplies milk to
the citizens of Marietta. TheqanimaI
was found to be suffering from the
last stages of tuberculosis The ami
NAL was gilled and the lungs removed, /,
when horrible state of affairs was
found to exist. The entire respiratory
organs were affected with the dread
disease, the lungs being almost, Dutre-
fled with the deposit of mater whicl.
they contained. When it is remember
ed that the germs of this disease
would be transmitted to the CONSUMERS
of the cows milk. even though the di-
seased fluid be MIXED with the product
of 20 healthy animals. the gravity. Of
the situation is plainly evident to ev9
cry one. >
The dairyman in whose herd the Dis,
seased animal was found, can
not be held RESPONSIBLE, be-
cause he did not know, i, for
some time the condition of the. COW
and when he did learn that she was di-
seased the animal was promptly iso-
lated from the milk producing animals.
AS the nature of tuberculosis is not
known to the public at large, the Leader
er reporter was given the following
history and description of this fatal di-
sease by DR.. w. d. Garrat, from whose
pen communication on the same sub
ject appears in another column of the
Leader today:
Tuberculosis claims for its victims
nearly, perhaps we might say all, the
domestic animals. But man and the
bovine species above all others seem
to be The special marks for the attacks
of this scourge.
"In order for man or animal to have
consumption the bacillus tuberculosis
must gain entrance to the system and
there find proper Judgement in order
that 1t may commit its usual havocs.
The ntercommunicability of the di-
sease from animals to man or from
man to animals is an established fact,
no longer open to discussion. 1t has
been shown by hundreds of expert
ments that the disease is transmissible
from one animal to another of the
same species and from one species to
another. No matter how the germs
may enter the system, whether inhaled,
taken in with the food or inoculated,
the disease is liable to ensue. A tub
erculosis animal placed among other
animals communicates the disease
certainty to animals previously heal
thy. There are Instances on record
where entire herds of cattle became in
fected by the Introduction of a single
diseased animal and death after death
followed, while prior TO tae addition of
the newcomer the disease had been un-
known in a herd.
THE transmission of tuberculosis
the use of milk from diseased COWS Is
possible, particularly in children and.
delicate adults. who live largely on
milk diet. One cow In "A dairy may
contaminate the milk from the whole
herd, simply by milking the milk from
the Different animals - VI tr W