Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-12-28
HEALTH LAWS INADEQUATE
Veterinary Inspector Brock Urges
That They Be Strengthened,
snss Bureau of Animal Industry VIII
Work for Three objects mt Next
Session of the Vermont
LEGISLATURE.

Or. K. .. Brock, veterinary inspector in
'he bureau OF animal industry, and who
Is stationed here, was interviewed Fri
lay AFTERNOON by Free Press man as 10
"hat legislation would be advocated at
mo next Legislature toward strengthen
ing the present health laws, and from him
earned that all OF the influence which tho
burenu OF animal industry in this State
could bring to bear would be exerted to-
ward three objects in tho work of meat
inspection and the suppression of contag-
lous animal diseases, which comprise the
bureaus field of endeavor. These will be
L state meat inspection system, a sub
sfitute for the creamery sterilization bill
which was repealed at the last Leglsla-
ture, and a law prohibiting the entrance
u injected cattle into a herd which had
already been tested and cleaned out
In going into further detail on tho
question of a meat inspection system
DR.. Brock said at tie present time there
was absolutely no system Of meat IN
specton in the state and said further
that the supervision Of the slaughter
houses and market sanitation as per-
formed by the State board of health was
utterly INADEQUATE.
As an illustration the following exam
pie was given:
We annually test with tuhcrculin thou
sands Of dairy cattle in this state and
lind a good percentage OF them diseased.
These diseased cattle are removed from
he herd and slaughtered in the interest
Of public health.
Now then. in nearly every instance
whore "A herd IS tested and open cases
found you will ind that the hogs, If there
be any. are also infected.
This is so because # is customary to
hermit tho hogs ia root i'm the manure of
the stable and to feed them the skinned
milk from tho herd
At present nothing Is done to protect
the public health from infection through
eating this pork. o. pcr cent. of which is
slaughtered without any inenection and
consumed locally
It seemed to me there IS u great fault in
our pres, nj lnwe in regard 10 this matter
and IL # is found that "a Sta.o meat in
spection svetem can not i've obtained.
,he present cattle law .lould H.. amended
so that all Lops Lout an 81 farm ,cbora
tuberculosis is found To exist ana which
have in am way been cxposed to the in
lection should he tagged with A suitable
Identification button and slaughtered I'M
der government inspection
Dr. Brock further gave as an example
the persistence in the practice of selling
bob" veal and said that more of this
product was sold in Vermont than in any
place he knew Of. He said he could give
man more reasons and that they would
be given later in the campaign to force
the inspection of every bit of meat which
enters into the body as food
III speaking Of a substitute for the
creamery sterilization bill, DR. Brock
did not hesitate to say that II was re-
pealed at the last LEGISLATURE for pollt-
lcal purposes and said that if il were I'M
possible 20 replace it. some other method
must pc found to prevent creameries from
being as they are now. centerS from
which bovine tuberculosis is spread One
way in which this might be accomplished
would be the passage of a law which
would forbid the purchase by the cream
cry Of milk from a herd which had not
been tested ami cleaned ont within a
year.