The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
REEKED WI1H.POISON
Cows Killed by Health Departments
Order Found in Frightful
Condition.
DR.. Keys Believes Much so-Called
Cholera:Infant1un Is Really
Tuberculosis.


places for tina unWary. None except those
actually connected with the suppression of
diseases can appreciate the dangers which
beset the human family on every side.
A striking Illustration Of this was shown
yesterdaysin the post mortem examination
Of nine cattle condemned for tuberculosis;
by the local health department. The re-
suits were revolving to a degree that sick
ened even the hardened butchers and the
health officials. In some of the cattle the
disease had made such ravages that the
animal might be said to- be purifying
while still living. The glands and organs
and other parts Of the body contained
large deposits Of tuberculous matter which
when opened eXuded a sickening mass of
pus. s
The circumstances connected with the
condemnation of these nine cattle by the
local health department follows:
High Bred Jersey.
One COW was a high bred Jersey which
had been bought by resident Of this city
In order to secure a pure milk supply for
his little ones. Having milk to spare he
also supplied two of his neighbors for their
babies. The babies did not appear to be
doing very well and as the COW was cough
ing some, the city veterinarian, DR.. Al A.
Keys: was summoned. He suspected tu-
bercu1osis and made a tuberculin test.
From the results obtained he condemned
the COW and William Pomplin, an inspect
or for the state live stock sanitary board,
ordered her killed. While prepared to find
evidences of tuberculosis, neither were
quite prepared for what they did find.
There were tuberculous deposits in the
mesentary, intestinal and bronchial
glands, in the lungs and the thoracic cav
ity generally, all filed with infectious mat
ter. There We're LESSONS In all stages. The
examination was attended by DR.. P. M.
n w n n.
nounced the case one of the worst that he
had ever seem.
Lesson for: DaIryman.
At the same time DR.. Hall inspected the
carcasses Of eight other animals taken
from a dairy herd supplying people In
this city, and condemned by DR.. Keys
for tuberculosis. Two of these cows were
condemned a year ago by DR.. Keys. They
were "re- tested by the. state board; AS
a result Of the ,t're- test the two animals
were released by the state hoard %of
the apparent discontinue of the local
board Of health This week the herd: was
tested again by the local officials. This
time DR.. Keys found eight diseased COWS,
and, as the new: live stock sanitary board
had entirely repudiated the methods. of
the state board of health with regard to
animal inspection, sthe eight cows were
soon on the way to the slaughter house.
One sight Of the organs Of his cows was
enough for the owner. He now loses
eight cows and finds no. consolation in
the fact that six Of them became infected
with the disease from the two which ihe
refused to kill year ago.,
Where Danger Is Worst. :;
Minneapolis is obtaining: compare
lively pure supply Of milk thru the: dairy
men. They may use preservatives and
TOR will h1,t fbair. hoy
been generally freed from diseased cat
tie. The great source of Infection at
present is from the cattle owned by pri-
vate families, of which there are several
| thousand in the city These have never
been inspected and the law does not re-
qutre that they shall be, so the question
! of their inspection is a. matter wholly fo1
the owners to decide.
DR.. Salmon of the bureau of animal
! industry has proved to the satisfaction
| of the medical world that tuberculosis is
communicable from cattle to- human be-
Eings and fall progressive health sofficia1s
are .basing their work on: his reports. Z
Saves: the. Little Ones. ;
Dr.. Keys says that be Is satisfied tina:
many deaths. reported as from cholera in
fantum are really due toSintestinal tuber
lcu1osis He places his estimate at rs pei
fcent. In this he's. is sustained by curren
authorities. ~
/ Dr.. Hall cites the reports Of the health
department Of Minneapolis In proof g.
this belief. There has been d remarkably
Farld striking decrease in the number 0
deaths from cholera infantum in this cit,
since 1895, when cattle inspection wa
inaugurated in this city. Tt will be re
membered that Minneapolis was one o
the very first cities in the world to adop
tstringent measures for the suppression o
infectious diseases in dairy herds. TIL
Eration of decrease in the number of cho1
era infantum cases has been in proportiol
to the progress Of the elimination Of tn
[berculous cows.
Z Not Of Warming
The local department needs no assist
lance now in bringing the dairymen t
time, but both DR.. Hall and DR.. Key
issue a serious note of warning to thos
who: own their own cows and think tina
they are Citing better milk than from tn
dairymen.