The San Francisco call., 1910-05-27

ease any way, as it is rendered un-
wholesome.
THE worst of the matter is that the
poor man gets the most of this diseased
meat, and thus it is among the ranks
Of the workers that tuberculosis from
eating tubercular meat is contracted
The working man can mot buy the fine
steaks and cuts that the rich man can,
and as a result the man who labors the
hardest gets the worst meat by far.
He is given the meat reeking with
tubercular germs, sometimes in the
form of steaks or cuts, but more often
as sausage or hamburg steak 1t is
safe to say that fully as much infected
meat got into the market last year as
my FIVE inspectors and myself con-
demned.
Can Be Inspected
Doctor Eaton says that he could not
possibly have inspectors enough to keep
constant watch on all slaughter
houses. sausage factories and the like
Now, as matter of fact, our ordinance
was so drafted that we could have in
spectors on hand whenever any of the
concerns were slaughtering. You must
understand that many of these sausage
factories, most of them. need inspec-
tors only about once or twice week,
for the remainder of the time the
sousage men are out selling their wares
or attending to some other feature of
the business. There are 80 sausage
factories perhaps, as Dactor Eaton
SAYS, but that does not mean, for a
minute as Doctor Easton declares, that
an inspector would be needed to watch
each factory.
In one of the large slaughter houses
recently 100 hogs were shipped in from
the country The governments in
nncfnr Ralxar con-
demned 90 of those 100 hogs for tuber-
culosis of the head That shows the
extent of the disease. The government
has one or two men in every slaughter
ing plant that supplies meat to the
army or navy, and / do not see why
our soldiers should be protected from
disease, and our working men and
women, with their children exposed to
the sure ravages of one of the most
dread diseases of all.
I'VE should at least place San Fran
cisco on a par, in this respect, with
Los Angeles. Eureka, Redding and other
cities that force rigid inspection of
meat by competent men, and the con-
demnation of all tubercular animals.
In the Bay Counties
tuberculosis is general in this sec
ton Of the state, and especially in the
bay counties. among animals intended
for human consumption. This disease
destroys the wholesomeness of the fibre
and produces intestinal diseases. if it
does not transmit the dread germs of
tuberculosis
ct have been employed in this work
for 10 years, and for the last five years
I have been striving to have passed
such an ordinance as was TO go into
effect July l, and which the present
health board has repealed"
Opinion of Expert
Il indorse heartily the stand taken
by Doctor Regensburger in this mat
ter" DR.. Emile Schmoll said yesterday.
The question of whether or not bo-
vine tuberculosis is transmittable to
humans has been much discussed, but
the concensus of opinion is that the
virus from beeves. taken into the hu-
man stomach, will transmit the dis
ease.
Doctor Regensburger merely stated
something that is generally recognized,
therefore.
The germs of tuberculosis in meat
can be destroyed by cooking the meat
thoroughly, of course. but there is so
much danger in allowing tubercular
meat to go out that the meat should be
condemned and destroyed. In a large
piece of meat, a roast, for instance, the
center is apt to be not well cooked and
many Of US, in fact, prefer our meat
bit raw. So the germs, in case the
cooking was not thorough, would not
be destroyed"
Against Modern Ideas
Doctor Eaton's stand is not in keep
ing with modern ideas elsewhere, es-
pecially in the larger cities of the Unit
ed States" DR.. R. G. Brodrick said.
Our government requires that all meat
sent interstate must be rigidly in
spected by competent men.
The trouble with US has been that