Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-19
CATTLE and
MILK MUST Be
INSPECTED.
City Council Passes Rigid Or
dinance After Weeks
Of Discussion
Large Number Of Citizens
| Present Talks by Dfs.
| Treacy and Quain


of work Monday night when it pass
ed comprehensive milk and cattle
inspection ordinance and step for
ward has been taken for the protec-
ton of Bismarck citizens, especially
the little tots who depend upon the
cows for their sustenance.
There were a number OF ladies
and gentlemen present to encourage
the aldermen and lend brilliancy to
the occasion and it was evident they
had used their persuasive powers up
on the individual aldermen, for the
ordinance went through as though
| creased. But perhaps the convincing
remarks of Drs. Treacy and Quain
| on the various phases of tuberculosis
| in cattle and the real transmission
! Of the bactilli to human beings and
! vice versa, had considerable to do
with the real passage of the ordl-
| nance, and certainly had much to do
with convincing Alderman Taylor
that it was impracticable at this
| time to include butter In the provis-
ions of the ordinance at this time,
for when the vote on the amendment
was taken not even the mover voted
for it.
Mayor Smith presided and all the
| aldermen were present but Alderman
Patterson.
The auditor made a financial re-
port showing $24, 135 in all funds in
the treasury besides the sewer fund.
The aldermen from the Fifth and
Sixth wards drew lots to decide who
would be the senior in each ward
and the lot fell to Alderman Rich
holt and Alderman Taylor. This was
done so that the matter of Inspector
of election could be settled.
The ordinance granting permission
to the Missouri Valley Milling Co.,
to build a tunnel under Front street
from the mill to the railroad for the
transferrence of grain, was passed,
second and final reading.
The ordinance committee was
granted until the next meeting to
report on the street paving ordinance.
The milk inspection then came up
for final passage. Alderman Taylor
| voted to amend so that the inspection
| included butter as we'll as milk, but
| this was defeated as stated.
| DR.. Treacy was called upon for re-
marks and said that Alderman Tay-
| lor's amendment was hard to argue
| against save upon the ground that it
was dL ILLS I1uS 1mpOSSlDiS " CHI
| force such an ordinance, but that
| the government expected soon to be
| prepared to put in operation reg
ulation of interstate commerce which
| would help this proposition. At the
| present time neither the government
or cities were equipped to handle the
butter end of the matter, but by Sep
TENDER the government would be
equipped to handle this issue In
Great Britain it had been shown that
80 per cent of the deaths of infants
from consumption had been traced
directly to cows milk that was infect
| ed with tuberculosis and there was
no question of the danger from this
source. Chicago had tried to haulle
| the butter as well as milk inspection
and had failed, as had other large
cities, and the present ordinance
was as good as could be secured un-
| der present conditions. While it
was true, as Alderman Taylor had
said, that mothers eating infected
butter and feeding babies were liable
| to transmit the Infection, but the
chance was very slight, so it had bet
ter be left to the government to han
die the butter question.
DIR. Quain then gave very inter-
esting general talk on the dangers of
tuberculosis in which he made plain
| in many things which were cloudy
in the minds of hearers. He stated
| that the death rate from tuberculosis
| in this state was higher than It
should be, in fact as high as in those
states where the disease is supposed
to thrive, and he stated that most of
this mortality was among infants
| and children, and due to infected
milk. He read some letters from emf
| nent authorities on this subject from
which it was evident there was no
question about the infection from
cows milk and said there was any
amount of evidence to prove that the
chief cause of consumption In the
human family was the milk they
| frank.
DR.. Treacy told of corn fed hegs
| in Texas which were seldom found
4 to be affected with tuberculosis while
in Iowa, where they used skim milk
for feed, 33 per cent of the hogs had
the disease, and in st. Louis hogs
were only bought subject to inspec-
ton owing to the prevalence Of the
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