New-York tribune., 1901-07-26

the data at hand and the revolutionary tendency
of the statements ascribed to the famous Ger
man bacterologist have made many doctors
hesitate about expressing an opinion. Those
physicians who did speak. however. expressed
themselves opposed to DR.. Kochs deduc-
tions. DR.. George W. Goler, Health Officer OF
the city OF Rochester. said:
So far my knowledge goes. I thoroughly
believe in the Identity Of human and oovne
tuberculosis. The high rate C that disease
among dairymen and among people who work
in stables where cattle kept is one proof.
AS for authorities who hold this view, they
to be found by the score.
Dr.. Goler showed to The Tribune correspond
ent section of the lung taken from a COW
slaughtered for the market 1t was a mass of
ulcers The doctor said that % per cent CT
the mich cows killed for edible purposes were
affected with tuberculosis. The steers he said.
| showed far smaller percentage for the reason
that their freer life and shorter period Of ex-
stence before slaughter impeded the progress
OF the disease
DR.. s. Casgons, who a member of the
State Board Of Health gave special attention
to this subject, said:
AS L now understand DR.. Kochs new theory
! must express a wide divergence of opinion
| from the deductions he announces. While con-
| nected with the State Board Of Health it be-
came my duty to make Investigations along this
| line. The result was such overwhelming ac-
| emulation of proof that bovine tuberculosis is
| transmissible. that no doubt on the question
| mained in my mind. In Rensselaer, County,
| for instance we discovered a herd OF swine
simply rotten with tuberculosis 1t was traced
cattle with the disease. In Glens Falls little
| child affected with chronic fever and
| bowel trouble. The physician in charge Of the
case found evidences Of intestinal tuberculosis.
| No tuberculosis history traceable in the
| family. cow which had been supplying this
| child with milk died Investigation discovered
| that the COW was thoroughly infected with
| tuberculosis.
! At the last convention of the Public Health
| Association. at Indianapolis. DR.. D. E. Salmon.
| a well known authority read a paper this
subject He held emphaticaly that human and
! bovine tuberculosis Identical and trans
| mssbe. One instance he cited that of a
butcher who cut his thumb with knife. A
meat he was slicing was found to have come
| from one Of a herd Of cattle infected with
public health measure all milk from tuberculosis
cattle should be vigorously excluded from the
market. and that cattle found to be infected
with the disease should be condemned.
DR.. Lewis w. Rose, who for many years was
head physician at the Rochester State Indus
trial Schools said:
In spite of the authority which Dr. Koch
brings TO bear, [ still believe that proof up
holds the old theory of the transmission OF
human and bovine tuberculosis and the identity
OF the two. In a recent report on animal tuber-
culosis, made by the veterinary department OF
the State of Pennsylvania. Drs. Seward Pear
son and M. P. Ravenel, after series of care
full experiments have unhesitatingly presented
this view. They say that no pretends now
TO doubt the transmission of the disease from
animal to animal. This has been demonstrated
by actual experiment This, of course is i'm
possible in man. Hundreds Of cases however
have been observed in which human beings have
become infected with the disease through the use
Of tuberculous milk meat by direct infec-
ton by means of cuts and wounds The Jews
as a race are remarkably free from tuberculos.
One for this, L believe, is because their
butchers trained to destroy all unclean
meat. In other words. they are able to recognize
carcasses infected with tuberculosis by certain
unfailing signs. and to discard it,