The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-07

stock, for washing cans. Is pollution
possible? Probable? Milk-Are I'D
ders cleaned before milking? Ii so,
How? How is milk cooled? Where:
Where is it stored? Has owner
milk house? Is it sanitary? How
far from stable? Does owner sell
milk? Make butter: Make cheese?
Haul TO creamery: How much milk
is sold? To whom is it shipped:
Does owner retail: Are cans or bot
ties used: How long after milking
before milk is delivered: Grade
Excellent. Good. Fair Poor or Bad.
As the result of these inquiries the
following conditions are found to ex
list Four of the dairies are reported
good One dairy was SO clean that
the inspector told me he would be will
ling to have his meals served III the
COW stable. Seven are reported fair,
one of these would undoubtedly have
been reported good except for some mi
nor defects, which have since been
remedied. Two were reported poor,
and one only, reported bad. The con-
dition Of the last dairy is such that
the inspector says very much will be
required before it can be brought up
to the proper standard.
AS result of this investigation sew
eral of the dairymen have already
adopted suggestions made by the in
spector and it will be reassuring to
know that there is SO much good milk
coming into the city.
Of course, it is needless to say that
the result Of this investigation will be
absolutely private and none of the
names of the parties will be made
known.
Agreed on Value.
The first recommendation made by
the proceeding speaker was that all
dairy-cows be tested by the tubercu-
lin test to determine whether or not
they had tuberculosis. Some will OBJ
ject to this, with various reasons, hon
estly intended, and the result of care
full reading Of government and expert
mental station reports. But the en-
tire sanitary department Of every
state in the country are agreed on its
value.
By this means one-third Of the
cows at the experimental station OF
Wisconsin that were suspected TO be
tubercular, were proven to have con-
sumption and 8 per cent of those I'M
suspected were also found tubercular.
In Massachusetts out of $4,000
COWS examined at random, so per cent
had tuberculosis
In New York Is per cent of the COWS
examined had consumption and in
Connecticut IA per cent So it is fair
to assume that about 20 per cent of
our dairy head has consumption and
that the tuberculosis test can prove it.
1t has been generally believed that
the udders must be infected in order
to furnish tubercular milk, but con
fusing fact was encountered, when on
careful examination by an eminent
pathOlogist, 60 per cent of a herd of
COWS that had been proven tubercu-
lar by the test, and killed, showing
they had tuberculosis on post-mortem
examination. had not a sign of tuber.
culosis of the tactical tract
Again, sometimes milk from the
same COW, known to be tubercular,
would contain I. b., and again in the
same milk none would be found. Milk
from COWS known to have tuberculosis
mas been carefully drawn and fed to
guinea-pigs and injected into them
without any sign of the disease ap-
pearing on the animal.
So, the doctors began to believe that
COWS seldom transmitted the disease
through milk, if ever at ALL and at the
last meeting of the National aSsocia-
ton for the study and prevention of
tuberculosis, in May, DR.. Henry l.. X.
Shaw of Albany, n. Y, said he did not
believe that it had much to do with
producing the disease, but another
great investigator, DR.. Rayenel, OF
Philadelphia, has ste adfastly maintain
ed the opposite view, although, he too
could not explain this very contradiC,
tory condition.
But since that meeting, within the
present year, the explanation of the
whole matter has been apparently
made clear
Human Affection.
The human being afflicted with tu
! bercul0sis ordinarily is affected in the
/ lungs. and spreads the disease through
his coughing and splitting and prob
ably this remains the chief source OF
the transmission Of tuberculosis
among human beings. While COWS
may have tuberculosis Of the lungs
they do not cough and expcctoratf
in the same way that human beings
do, because they are always mos
greatly affected in the stomach. bow
! els and liver and their Intestinal dis
| charges contain the germs in most in
creditably large quantities. AS car
readily be seen, while feeding in pas
ture. one tubercular COW can soon in
| feet a whole herd of healthy ones.
| All this explanation has been made
| TO lead up to one point, the immense
| Importance OF keeping the manure
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