The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-09
GERMS MEYER SLEEP
City Veterinarian Keys Reports on
Dairy Herds.
MANY HAVE NOT BEEN TESTED
More Careful Inspection of Meat
From Local slauHhter-Houses
Is Also Urged.

It would appear from the report OF. City
Veterinarian Keys for 1901 that there is
still a large field for municipal activity
in the protection Of the public from dis
eased milk. tuberculosis has increased
materially in the dairy herds Of the city
and county during the year. The ratio OF
diseased cattle found was 4.25 per cent,
against but LIS percent the year before.
DR.. Keys ascribes this In great
measure to the trouble in former years
in making owners Of diseased cattle OBJ
serve the quarantine Of condemned ami
mails, especially where they are being
held for retest, also to neglect to clean
| their barns properly after disease had
been found. In this connection DR.. Keys
recommends that the council refuse
licenses to outside dairymen where COWS
have been condemned, until they bring
written statement to the health com
missioner, either from the proper town
official or from the state board Of
health, that the condemned animals have
been removed and destroyed and the
premises thoroughly cleaned. There
were $3.50 COWS tested during the year.
of which 267 were condemned. Nine of
these failed to react on a retest and were
released from quarantine.
Herds Largely Untested.
| Owners Of dairies are appreciating more
| every year the Importance of Kidding their
slaughtering them on the first test, fully
satisfied of its accuracy. Only about one
quarter of the milk received from outside
| the county, according to DR.. Keys, comes
| from tuberculine tested cows. The daily
supply of milk and cream from outside
counties is not less than 5000 gallons. OF
which almost 1000 gallons, therefore, is
| supplied by INFESTED cows. Many OF the
outside dairymen are very obdurate. They
refuse to bear the expense Of the test and,
| rather than submit, some have stopped
| shipping milk to the city. The effect OF
the law therefore, is to increase the con-
sumption of milk produced in the county
| DR.. Keys recommends that the campaign
against dealers in milk from INFESTED
COWS be prosecuted vigorously.
Extended Meat Inspection.
Now that the city is getting a more
wholesome milk supply, 1t is time to take
another step. says DR.. Keys, and that is
| system Of city inspection OF beef, NUT
ton, pork, ETC., at the local slaughter
houses. On this score he says:
Our system of inspection is all right, but
it does not go far enough. The inspector Wis
its the wholesale commission houses and
retail markets and inspects the dressed meat.
No inspection can be thorough and reliable
unless made at the time of slaughter. N
many cases it is impossible to detect the
presence of disease in the dressed meat,
when it would be very evident on an exam
ination of the internal organs. Now there is
a great amount of meat killed in slaughter
houses scattered throughout the country
| where there Is no inspection. It would re-
ouire an army of inspectors to be on hand
at all these places to inspect the cattle as
killed In Europe and some OF the larger
cities of this country they meet this problem
by consolidating ali slaughtering operations
| at one or moro large abattoirs, where the
| r,orl- ip dina under the eve OF inspector
| appointed by the local board Of health. This
| Is the system that should be put in force in
Hennepin county.
Inspector McCalps Work.
In a supplemental report W. D. Mccall,
bread and milk inspector, tells OF the work
in his department. Both the cream and
milk have shown an improvement in quail
! ity he says, and the conditions surround
| ing their sale are also better. The milk
| sold in stores is usually Of lower grade
than that coming from the wagon, the
creamery and the restaurant, where II mas
| been almost universally up to the stand
ard An earnest effort has been mace 10
| find evidences of the use Of formaldehyde.
or other preservatives in milk and cream,
! but none has been detected. He TOOK z,41o
samples Of milk during the year. Inc
number of milk dealers warned 1or low
grade milk was 800, while $40 received
/ warnings for other derelections,E anu 80
| were arrested and fined, $3.50 In all.
| The number of bakeries inspected was
| 6e3. stores. 1O56; bread wagons, 1873, and
! 1875 loaves Of bread were confiscated.
Three bakeries were closed and 30 warned
| to clean up.
The quality Of the bread furnished py
| the bakeries was never better, MT. NC
Call reports, and there has been large
increase in the use Of bakerg bread dur
ing the year.