The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-25
INSPECTION OF cows
Or. Glover Makes Statements REGARD
ing Compulsory Application of
the Tuberculosis Test.


next legislature a stringent law requir-
ing that all cows furnishing milk for the
trade III Denver and every village and
hamlet in the state be tested for tuber-
culosis and with provision that the
owners of COWS responding to the test be
prohibited from furnishing milk from
diseased animals TO their customers
Dr. Geore II. Glover, veterinarian at the
Agricultural College, has conducted ex-
tensive experiments along this line and
the result of his investigations show
that people contract consumption
through both the milk and meat Of tu-
berculosis cows. In a public address de
livered at the Unity church of this city,
DIR. Glover made the following statements
regarding compulsory application of the
tuberculosis test:
"The time has come when Colorado
must take some action in protecting
thousands of helpless children as well as
adults from tuberculosis, a disease which
is responsible for more deaths than any
other known to medical science. Day
after day the 'dairymen of this state are
selling to their customers milk that may
or may not be alive with tuberculosis,
absolutely no care being exercised or in
terest manifested in this direction. The
milk from one tuberculosis COW will con
tamnate the whole product of the dairy
and where this is the case, the people
who buy this milk take their life in their
hands. ! am not an alarmist nor an ag.
ltator but the carelessness in allowing
an impure milk to be sold is, in view of
recent scientific Investigations, nothing
short of criminal.
Human tuberculosis is transmissible
to cattle. That bovine tuberculosis is
transmissible to human being, no one
4,
the faith to submit to hypo of cattle
consumption for the sake OF science
There is enough of circumstantial evil
dence, however, that makes the passage
of an inspection law necessity.
Tuberculosis is inter -transmissible
and that of the. bovine Is the more viru-
lent, rendering the meat as well as the
milk extremely dangerous for human use.
Extensive examination of bacilli from
human beings and from other species has
demonstrated that the germs are practi-
cally identical. They look the same;
grow on artificial media the same; and
both take the characteristic stain pc
culiar to the bacilli of tuberculosis.
mo one familiar with the Federal
meat inspection will doubt the efficiency
for moment, as far as it goes. While
thousands of pounds of meat infected
with tuberculosis are sold daily through
out the state, yet this is not the greatest
source of danger, for in the light of our
present knowledge. the milking of tuber-
culosis cows in the dairies adjacent to
Denver and other large cities especially,
and selling the milk to feed innocent
babies, the coming generation, is crimi
nal to say the least.
"The keeping of consumptive COWS by
a dairyman is not good business practice
from any standpoint. The diseased ami
mails will not thrive, they give a scanty
supply of inferior milk, they are not reg>
ular breeders, and when they do have
calves they are puny ones and furnish to
large extent the percentage of loss
from pneumonia and enteritis. The high
price of feed IN this state makes the
keeping OF diseased stock a poor bust
mess venture.
II do not advocate nor believe in the
poll AK for consumptive cows, for neither
the ownesr of the stock nor the state
can afford a wholesale loss such as
would result from thorough house
cleaning of this kind, but do believe it
is the duty of the state to exercise eau
ton in the inspection of milk for the
purpose of protecting people against con
sumption. 1 believe that the people
should be aroused to the dangers to
which they are daily subjecting them.
selves, particularly to the opportunities
for consumption which they are daily of
fering to their children, | do not be
lieve the exclusion of consumptive cows
from the dairy herds of Colorado would
result in any great loss to any one, as
they are not profit giver to their own
ers, and even if they were, the state
should not allow the milk from such an
imals to be sold. Fort Collins Express