Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-21
Mich Cow. and Mankind.

| The federal government. which is
able to support q twenty million dollar
department of agriculture and to issue
farmers bulletins in editions Of mil
lions. is entirely too poor to issue the
| valuable public health bulletins Of the
public health service in editions OF
more than a few thousands. That 1t
can not afford a department OF health
goes without saying. The national
government can not afford to give to
! the health Of its citizens the attention
that it gives to livestock Most Of us
can not help feeling more interest in
| the health and welfare Of human be-
ings than in that of cattle and hogs.
This, we admit, Is unstatesmanlike. Yet
after all. is not a human being-even
! child-worth something? Not 50
much as an Alderny COW, OF course.
but still something-enough TO Justify
| the expenditure of a few cents to save
the life Of a child where dollars are
spent to save the life of the COW? 1t NJ
our possibly misguided belief. says The
Journal iDf the American Medical AS
| ISOLATION that is worth at least this
! much: and this must be our apology
| for offering plan for utilizing some OF
! the agricultural department publica-
tons in the prevention Of disease
among human beings. We hasten to
add that the added expense for paper
and typesetting would be infinitesimal;
we do not believe that the interests OF
the livestock win be jeopardized.
We have before US a farmers bull
letin on tuberculosis in farm animals.
| which begins with section on the
Mature Of the Disease" We read:
| Tuberculosis is contagious :. 1t may
not attract much notice from the
! owner of the cattle. as the disease Is
slow to develop and COW may be
affected for several months" etc.
Our suggestion would be to insert dn
brackets. so that attention would not
be too seriously diverted from the cat
tle) the words father or mother OF
the children" after owner OF the cat
tie" and the word child" after cow.
We have no suggestions to offer as to
| the chapter on Importance: the prob
| lem is clearly stated: 1.-THE importance
| OF the disease must be estimated from
| two points Of view: first. the loss 1t en-
| tails on the cattle owner and second,
! the danger to human beings"
The chapter on Symptoms Is fairly
satisfactory: a careful perusal OF this
chapter might enable mother to s,rs-
| pect that her child was not suffering
| from common bad cough Gust as IL
| helps the cattle-owner to see that
| something unusual is wrong with his
cow and that it was time to consult
a physician. We must admit that the
section post Mortem Appearances"
might not be Of directly practical
value: still it's perusal might possibly
convince person with leanings toward
Eddyism that it would be little hard
10 will away tuberculosis Jumps. The
chapter on 1.-The Tubercle Bacillus"
would be very useful, for here we
| would find practical statements. such
as that the bacillus can live for long
time in favorable surroundings. such
as dark or dirty stables trooms)" Sim
ilarIy the chapter on How the Disease
Spreads would be decidedly practical
| "Sooner or later the tuberculous COW
| (person) begins to give off the germs
Of the disease" they escape from the
cow (human being3 by the mouth. nose.
4 etc: germs are coughed up and
] SPRAYED over the food in front OF the
COW Individually: cows (people) In adj
Joining stalls (beds) may acquire the
! disease in this way" The germs get
into the milk. and hogs end calves
| (Iitt1e boys and girls) are very readily
| infected by IT," The chapter on How
a Herd tFamiiy) Is infected is excel
llent, as is also the chapter on Santa
/ ton" In the latter, for example, We
/ would read that dark. dirty, crowded
tables (houses) are favorable to tuber-
4 culosis; clean. stables (houses) are un-
favorable to the development OF the
disease" STABLES (houses) should have
plenty Of air space for each animal
1 whether OF monetary value or only
lman)" etc. But the advice about sani-
ltary homes (for cattle) is SO excellent
That We might safely advise the people
to build such stables and then occupy
them themselves 80
i But after all: Might we not hope
Il that In the course Of time 1t would be
I possfble for the United States govern
ment occasionally to discuss the raan
! ! a s1 s. I. - Z
/ without opiates Or harmful drugs o.
isny kind Foiey's Honey and Tar Com
\ pojmd stops coughs and colds. Do moi
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