The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-10-18

worlds greatest scourge. the most dreaded
and deadly of d.scases-consumption. wei
named me white plague"
Last year In the International Tuber.
culosis congress held In Paris. Profcssc!
Won Behring expressed the opinion thai
one of the most useful results of the con.
gress was the acceptance of the fact by
all the delegates that bovine tuberculosis
is transmissible to human beings. the DO,
vine bacilli being more dangerous ever
than are the human bacilli.
Fourteen years ago l lived in the Ad.
irondacks, and to be sure of having pure
milk for my family, we kept our own
COW. One day the COW fell sick and died
suddenly. We thought she had been
poisoned and called in a veterinary sur
geon. He found the cause of her death
easily cnough-her lungs had been eaten
away with consumption.
So YOU see that when we thought W.
were drinking pure, wholesome milk, VIZ
were taking into our systems the germs of
disease. From that time. no more raw
milk was used in our family.
mat was fourteen years ago. Now |
Will tell you OF a recent experience to
prove to you the correctness of my con
v%ictions. l met one of our prominent
butchers n short time ago, and we talked
about pure food. l asked him to tell me
ioc' liz " lllC GUNS
slaughtered for this market. He told me
that out of a herd of Ill that he recently
bought. twentN-seven We're found to have
diseased lunss-were far gone in consump-
ton. He also said that about 10 per cent.
of all cows bought for slaughter in this
market were afflicted with the same dis
ease.
l asked his permission to Lae his in
formation, and though for obvious rea-
sons he did mt wish ypa II, ,,Sn hic N n r,o
he sent me a letter. which l have as proof
OF the statement.
Another fact which has come to my
knowledge IS that in one of the greatest
dairy farms of this state, stocked with
high-bred. registered COWS, last year over
100 had to be killed because they had de-
veloped consumption. This occurred on a
farm where to my personal knowledge the
most scrupulous cleanliness prevails, and
where everything is conducted on the
most thorough scientific principles of a n
itation. If l had been asked, "Is there
any milk brought to this market fit for
use in it's raw state?" l should nave I'M
hesitatingly recommended the milk from
this farm as the best.
Not long ago / had a letter from a very
wealthy resident Of this city. a man whose
name you all know. Tie wrote me that to
prevent n possibility of the milk pro-
NAaNh liS llSAlC SOI OelIlS llIlpuICp ~
had built a new COW barn at his country
place. and at great trouble and expense
selected eight of the finest and best bred
young COWS, registered Attorneys. for his
private use. One of the COWS took sick
shortly after. and he had her killed. A
post norton developed tina the COW had
tuberculosis. He then had the remaining
cows tested by a representative of the
state agricultural department., and he pro-
nounced five of the remaining seven cows
tubcrcu!ar.
And ne cried out to me: where and
how can I get milk fit to give my child?"
Thirteen years ago l was asked by the
editor of the Forum to write an article for
his publication on the necessity for pure
milk.
| did SO. and my article was returned to
me with tho request that 1 eliminate a
certain paragraph-he said it was too radt-
cal. too daring. Tho paragraph was as
follows. which was finally printed as q
foot nose:
Milk is not always good in proportion
to the price paid for it. nor free from tbs
germs of c%ontagioD because it has como
from cattle Of aristocra.ic lineage. The
latter quality. as recent experience has
shown, carries With ii a special suscepti.
bilit. 10 tu~barculosis.'
Thirteen years & l believed that tho
pasteurization of milk was the only rem,
edy. Today | Know i.
In June. 1895. DIR. Jacobi. in indorsins
the use of p~asteurizcd milk. wrote me
There is nothing so Instructive as a sue.
cess. and a single practical proof speaks
louder than any lumber of volumes. ;
Therefore, | will cite the case of a public
institution where he death rate of the
children was so high that 1t became a pub.
lie scandal. This was on Randail's island
Though the city had their own herd Of
COWS. which were kept on the island, care
fully tended and apparently in perfec
health. they did not succeed in reducin.
the death rate below ~ per cent. AT tina
time | was president of the health board
and the institution came under my direc
charge. i had Il chance to study the an
pall!ng conditions that still prevailed
there. After I had resigned from this of
flee, encouraged by the results | had al
ready obtained in the city. I installed o,
the island a complete plant for the pas
teurizatjon of milk. In the very first yea
of its operation. the death rate of tn
children made the astonishing drop o
from A per cent. to 90 Per cent. Remem
Der, there was no other change made eth
err in diet. hygiene or management of tn
institution. The rate was later reduced t
the still lower figure of 1875 per cent
Just think of the saving c
lives If pasteuriZation were general
adopted.
nave done as much as one man coul
to establish and promote the use of pas
teurized milk everywhere. but all that ha
been accomplished is merely q fractio
of the good that could be done were til