Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-01

600 children die annually in the United
States from the use Of impure or di.
seased milk between the ages Of six
months and ten years, to say nothing
Of its general use by the people.
HISTORY OF MILK.
As far back as history dates milk is
mentioned as a most important article
OF food. The ancients contended that
milk contained many virtues. Borhave
was the first to make a qualitated ex-
animation Of milk. He speaks Of the
dangers Of using diseased milk. Up to
the seventeenth century only three Of
the constituents Of milk had been dis
coyered-butter, cheese, and whey. In
all civilized countries cows milk is
principally consumed In Africa that
Of the camel; in Tartary and Siberia,
that Of the mare; in India the buffalo;
Lapland, the reindeer; In China, until
recently sow's milk was generally con-
sumed. In milk caseine supplies the
nitrogen, sugar and fat, and in great
measure the carbon and the salts and
the mineral constituents Of the water
needed by the body For this reason
the milk Of the cow must be adulter-
ated before being given to infants, as
the percentage of caseine Is too much.
TUBERCULOSIS IN MILK.
Diseased and adulterated milk is a
subject which has in recent years at
tracted the attention of the various
State legislatures, until nearly every
State and city has some law regulating
the healthful quality and sale Of milk.
DR., Whitcomb, a veterinarian, in one
Of his papers on tuberculosis, says:
This dreaded disease is the bane Of
the human family and among the po-
tent agencies in transmitting this mai
ady to children is milk. From to 20
per cent of all milch cows in the vicin-
ity of large cities are infected with tu-
berculosis. Milk being largely the diet
of children, every care and attention
should be used in having It free from
death germs Dr. Mazic Ravenell bac-
teriologist Of the live stock sanitary
board of Pennsylvania and inspector Of !
in the Veterinary Univer- /.
sity Of Pennsylvania. says, i'm his an /
nual report to the Department of Agri- /
culture Of Pennsylvania that "as COM /
pared to other diseases to which man
is liable, the one which must be recog- .
nized as deserving the greatest atten-
ton from sanitary health officers and .
physicians is tuberculosis. It has de-
strOyed more lives in the world than .
all the wars and all the epidemics Of
cholera, small pox and yellow fever.
Prof. Law, one of the ablest veterina-
rians Of New York, states that in some
dairy herds in that State he had found
as high as 80 per cent Of tuberculosis.
DR.. Woodward, of New York, says,
upon his own experience in hospital
practice that milk is a source Of tu-
Dercular affection in young children.
He found in 127 cases Of tuberculosis
IN children that the mesenteric glands
IN 100 were affected. DR.. Russell,
health officer Of Glasgow Scotland,
says: There Is no need for argument
n reference to milk Of tuberculosis
,ows. The facts are so universally
accepted that the demonstrated effects
.hine through them tuberculosis is
among the young to an
farming extent by the use Of diseased
milk. OF the total number of deaths
n children under 10 years Of age one
bird were due to tuberculosis. DR..
;trang, Of Amorlay furnishes evidence s
" infection by means of milk. He
tates the case Of a healthy boy whose
ncestors on both sides were free from
taint Of disease. He con-
racted tuberculosis from the use of q
iseased milk from which he died i'm ,
welve months. Bromardel states the 3
ase Of out Of IA young girls living 5
n a boarding school who contracted &
from the use of tubercu- I
ar milk. DR.. Demange found among a
lfants in the children's hospital at u
,erne, whose parents we're free from 7
tuberculosis, ten died from consump- h
ION from being fed on milk from di- K
aased COWS. DR.. Boloitz says of 1876 y
,ho died at Kiel in one year 16 per Il
ant was caused by the use Of diseased {
lilk DR.. j. b. Turner, inspector OF C
We stock and dairy farms for the Dis [
'ict of Columbia, made a health re- n
ort to the Health Department Of the Il
district, May 5, 1900, in response to the L
Of the U. s. Senate calling Il
,r information as to the condition, Il
lality and healthfulness OF the milk s
Did in the District In which he says: n
By this inspection, the section which o
lpplies nearly one-third OF our milk, L
lere were condemned in 1897 14O d. L
,ased milk COWS; in 1899, 120. 1t o
ould be seen by the reports Of this Il
nee that the disease which caused o
.e contamination of the cows on the d
airy farm was tuberculosis or con- n
imption. The question at issue is II
hether the milk from tuberculosis e
lws Is dangerous as food, and can h
be transmitted by means 81
milk? This Is the most widely dis n
Used problem to-day before santa Is
ans and veterinarians. The germs
tuberculosis In cattle have been a
ansmitted either by accidental or In g,
nded innoculation, and have pro d
need fatal tuberculosis In man. Nu- p
erous experiences have been cited OF
here milk from tuberculosis COWS has
zen consumed by persons who have pl
,ntracted consumption. The report n
ade by the Royal tuberculosis Com ri
isslon Of Great Britain, In 1898, gives 81
one OF the leading causes of con- cC
lmption IN man the use Of tubercular a
eat and milk. The International Con n
'ess Of Veterinary Surgeons, held at ui
aden Baden, Germany, in 1899, con- le
dered this subject Of such great i'm Ii
,rtance for the benefit OF mankind W
at they passed resolutions regarding be
e use Of milk from tubercular COWS at
follows: In
First. The cows and goats kept for 10
Try use are TO be subjected TO a reg be
ar veterinary control. Second. The DO
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