Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
MILK CASE APPEALED
MUCH WILL DEPEND ON OUT.
COME OF FIGHT OF CEDAR
RAPIDS DAlRYMEN.
CRUSADE FOR PURE MILK
MENAcEp BY THIS ACTION
Dairymen Set Up Contention That City
Has No Right to Enforce Inspection
of Dairy Herds-Many Complaints
Lodged With Railroad Commission
cumn,ins' Appointments.
special to Times-Republican.


from enforcing its ordinance for a
tuberculosis inspection of all herds of
COWS supplying milk to the city was
fled with the clerk of the supreme
court yesterday. On the outcome of
this suit will depend much of the fight
against the spread of tuberculosis in
physicians of the state, the state food
and dairy commission and numerous
other organizations that are interested
in the fight against tuberculosis and
for pure milk are watching the out
come of this suit with unusual inter-
est.
passed an ordinance providing for an
inspection of the herds of COWS OF all
milk men supplying milk TO the city,
providing that every milk man sup
plying milk should have a license from
the city board of health and provid-
ing that the board of health could is
sue such licenses only in case the herds
from which the milk was supplied were
found TO be healthy and free from tub
erculosis. There were other provisions
as the requirement. that when any in
fectious or contagious disease was
found in the family of the owner of
The herd or among the persons car
ing for The herds or their families the
supply OF milk 10 the public from such
herds should be stopped till the trou-
bic was over With.
l. IS claimed by the milk men that
an ordinance and that such authority
rests now in the hands of the state
food and dairy commissioner, and their
fight against the ordinance of the city
Of Cedar Rapids rests mainly on that
contention. The matter is now in the
hands OF the supreme court and will
remain for that body 70 determine the
law
The facts are that ii IS generally
agreed by those who have been most
active in the campaign against tuber-
cu,osis that unless the cities of the
state take the matter up and thru the
local boards Of health require the tube
II srcu,in test of ali'herds supplying milk
ID the cities the tigh. against tuber-
culosis Will be almost hopeless. In any
number OF cases over the state it has
are supplying milk 70 the public and
+. is recognized by rhe best authors
ties that il can thus be communicated
ID humans from the milk of tubercular
cattle The milk men generally have
been fighting the tubercuin test. 1t is
a hard proposition for them 10 discover
The fact that several Of their finest cows
have tuberculosis and that they have
10 l-ilIal ana h..ip
E 10 furnish milk. Il is dead loss
financially 70 them The interest of the
public Of course is paramount but the
milk man sees mostly his financial loss
and can easily be persuaded on that
account that the tuberculin test is a
fraud.
] Some milk men are taking a better
view Of the matter. They recognize
that The spread Of consumption must
be combatted or they will have no
customers TO supply milk TO. They
j recognize that the tuberculin cattle
must be weeded out and they are goinG
about IL voluntarily TO have their cows
\ tested. But the most of them are fight
ing all moves in that direction.
/ a number Of cities have taken w
this matter Of local ordinance. Mar.
silallrown, Waterloo Des Moines ant
other places have all considered it anC
| all these places are watching the out
| come of this suit to determine 7whethe
l or not they can pass similar ordinances
1t will be Remembered by many tina
Dr.. l. a. Thomas, secretary of IN
| state board of health was the first t
| ] advocate the necessity of local ordi
nances and a wide range of autnorit,
l to the local boards of health in tn
| campaign against tuberculosis. He ais
] advocates cities should pass slaugh
ter house ordinances and require al
inspection Of the local meat supply q
being quite as important as an inspec
ton Of the milk supply. The Unite
| states inspectors examine only n
slaughter houses that supply meat thr
1 Interstate commerce. The local butche
1 shop often does its own slaughterin
! and there is no inspection of such mea
/ whatever and there is not a bit o
| doubt IN the minds Of any who hay
1 investigated but that hundreds of catti
l infected with tuberculosis are slaugh
tered and sold thru these local butchc
shops and consumed by the people an
many cases of tuberculosis in human
are the result of eating such meat. Tn
! til this inspection is provided for eithe
\ by the cities or by the state anothe
J equally dangerous source of infectio
: from tuberculosis will go unchecked
There is already ample authority TO
1 the cities to pass such ordinances an
to provide for the inspections.
The city of Herndon is, to have
shed erected for thesbeneft of the pas
sengers and for the purpose of keepin
passengers. express and baggage DR.
and good humored while being loads
to the passenger cars. The passenge
trains entering there have made it
practice of pulling up considerable
distance from the depot. This is don
because Of the location OF the track
and switches there. In times of storr
1t is a hardship on the public as the
must stand in the storm while other
;, are getting on or off the cars. The PEG
pie took the matter UPS with the rail
:, road commission. Commissioner Ket
- chVm has been assured by the compan
20 that they will erect the shed at once.
70 Earring and Union. have both com
y planned to the railroad commission tina
their stockyards are too close to tn
: towns for the healtllsand comfort Q
the people. They claim stoo. that tn
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