The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-09-29
CONSUMPTION IS
NOT CONTAGIOUS.
Duty OF Patients to
Prevent Spreading
OF Disease,
Laid Down in the Ohio So
Ciety'S Third Bulletin.
ARTICLE NO. 3.
Issued BY the Ohio Society
for the Prevention of Tu-
berCuiOSiSI
ARTICLE NO. 3.
Animal Observation-Disclosures:
to Prevent the COmmuniCa-
ton of Consumption.

Many of the domestic animals suf-
fer from tuberculosis. So do the
wild animals, but only when kept in
captivity.
Bovine tuberculosis is the most i'm
portant to man. The percentage of
milch cows affected in Ohio is un-
known. 1t has been estimated that
fully 5 per cent have tuberculosis. A
much higher per cent has been found
in many of the herds examined.
| GERM FOUND IN MILK.
When a COW has tuberculosis the
germ which causes the disease may
appear in the milk. 1t will almost
certainly do so If the udder is affected
as it frequently is. The germ is also
found in many other organs, and in
the flesh used for food.
Until recently it was scarcely ques-
toned by any one that tuberculosis
of animals and tuberculosis of man
is not one and the same disease, and
that it might be communicated from
animal to man and from man to ami
lmal
Many laws have been passed, and
have been and are still being en-
forced In line with this idea. About
a year ago Koch, who discovered the
germ that causes the tuberculosis,
announced that the disease Is not
the same in man and animals; that
the germ that causes tuberculosis in
man cannot be made to produce tu-
berculosis in animals.
He expressed the belief that tuber-
culosis of animals could not be COM
municated to man; at least, that this
is so rarely the case that we can af-
ford to ignore this cause of the dis
ease.
KOCH's VIEW OPPOSED.
Koch found practically no one of
Experience to support this view. On
the contrary the foremost men of
the world who have studied this sub
ject are opposed to it.
The question is being reinvestiga-
ted, and we should certainly be very
unwise, at least for the present,
to omit any precaution to prevent
contracting tuberculosis from ami
mails.
We may easily protect ourselves
against the germs of tuberculosis
found in meat and milk. This germ
is quickly destroyed when heated to
a temperature of $50 0degrees. 1t has
been shown that this temperature ID
not reached in a large roast-S to lC
pounds-cooked rare. Meat, how.
ever, is much less apt to be infected
than milk, and ordinarily cooking
will destroy the germs found there.
tuberculosis disease of the bowels
is not an uncommon disease among
young children. How much of it ID
due to milk from tuberculous COWS i:
unknown. 1t is certain that young
animals fed on milk from a tubercu
lous mother very frequently contrac,
the disease. 1t is extremely proba
BILE that such milk may cause tuber
culosis in infants.
HEAT THE MILK.
The milk may be rendered safe by
boiling, or, what is better pasteur
izing, which is heating the milk to Z
1 Temperature of 165-l70 degrees.
But no one would knowingly drink
l or give to their children to drink
!. milk from a diseased COW, be tn,
disease tuberculosis or something
else.
INSPECT DAIRY CATTLE.
There should be rigid inspection
of dairy COWS, and no one should b,
permitted to sell milk except from
cows certified by competent veter
!, marian to be free from all disease
THE public should demand this.
DUTY OF THE CoNSUMPTIvE.
A feeling has arisen that the con
sumptive is a dangerous person, I,
be Stunned and ostracised by health,
society. Already in many places h,
is finding difficulty in getting int,
hotels and boarding houses.
a lady from Michigan, who reat
article No. l of this series, has writ
ten suggesting that the railroa,
companies should be compelled t,
: furnish special cars for the consump
tive travellers. They have been re
fused positions on account of tn,
. fear of contagion.
The question of excluding con
. sumptive teachers and scholars from
. the schools has been officially raised
This is an important matter tha
should be well understood by tn,
: public.
CONSUMPTION NOT CONTAGIOUS.
Consumption is not 4 contagiou