The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-07
Stringent Enforcement Of City
Ordinance Has Been
Ordered.
MILK FAMINE MAY FOLLOW
Or. NOrgaard viii Conduct the
Campaign-CirCuIar Note
of instruction.


milk ordinance has been ordered, cir
cular letters have been sent to the
dairymen of the county to that effect,
and official notices have been published,
also to that effect The decision to do
what was formerly declared to be
equivalent to forcing necessary milk
famine on Honolulu was reached at the
joint meeting of the health committee
of the board of supervisors and Che
board of agriculture and forestry of the
Territory Friday night, and the cam
paign mapped out in further detail yes
terday afternoon.
The news comes to the dairymen sud
denly, many of them still selling the
milk from cows that were previously
condemned as tubercular, after informa-
ton that the city would not enforce
the ordinance for some time had led
them into a belief that it would not be
enforced at all until the legislature
passed a remedying measure.
just what loss the enforcement of
the ordinance will mean to the dairy
men, through the condemnation of cat
tie, and to the community, by a conse-
quent rise in the price of milk, is yet
to be aseertained, but it is probable
that it will amount to fair sum, less
ened by the knowledge that the loss
is offset by a material gain in the
health of the community gain that
is demanded by the anti-tubereulosis
work, no matter what the cost.
Reports and Conclusions.
Victor A. Norpaard. territorial vet
erinarian, has submitted bis report on
bovine tuberculosis on this island to
the board Of agriculture. He calls at
tention to the flaws in the city ordi-
nance regulating the sale of milk, and
suggests line of procedure that should
be adopted in remedying the situation
through the legislature.
His plan, while calling for the eradi-
cation of tuberculosis in cattle by the
only means possible-the slaughter of
those infected-is a constructive one,
rather than destructive one, for the
idea is to clean the island of all bovine
tuberculosis at one sweep. and keep it
clean forever after. AS long step in
the fight now being waged against
tuberculosis, the great white plague of
the human race, the value of such a
move is almost Unreasonable.
While condemning the most important
clauses in the city's so-called milk ordi-
nance, Doctor Norgaard joins with City
Physician Bruce McV. Mackall in sign
ing a circular letter to the dairymen,
notifying them that all clauses would
be strictly enforced, it being the only
operative law upon which to base the
campaign against the disease in the
cattle before it is further transmitted
to the human.
Systematic Censure.
Following tie announcement of the
joint boards intention of enforcing the
ordinance, this circular letter says:
Consequently no permit to sell,
produce, keep or distribute milk for
human consumption will be issued or
renewed to any applicant unless his
entire herd above six months old,
whether milking or not, has been tested
and the affected and reaeting animals
have been removed completely from the
dairy premises or their immediate
vicinity, and all barns or any other part
of the premises have been cleaned and
disinfected under the supervision and
to the satisfaction Of the proper au-
thorities.'
The letter then states that sound
animals will be officially registered, GER
tifeates issued to the effect that the
premises are clean, and the permit then
issued to the owner, who in turn agrees
that he will not introduce into his herd
or allow on his premises any INFESTED
or reacting animal. He will also notify
the milk inspector or other authority
of any change he wishes to make in his
herd.
For Condemned Animals.
After describing blanks that must be
filled in on application for permit and
describing the methods to be used in
testing, the letter says:
Arrangements have now been made
for the butehering of such animals as
the owner may wish to dispose of, under
competent veterinarian inspection. and
IN case the carcass is considered fit for
1000 the owner win receive the regular
market value for the same. Those
which do not pass for food the owner
will receive only the value Of the bides
ana oHal, minus a reasonable fee for
buteheripg.
Gin the case of poor animals which
the owners might wish to get in condi-
ton before the slaughter or which the
owners might wish to hold until the
coming legislature shall decide upon
the payment of an indemnity for tuber.
eulosis cattle, may be sent to certain
isolated pastures selected and approved
by the proper authorities, and kept
there for seyenty-fve cents month
per head"
The letter states that a strong en-.
deagoT will be made TO make the com.
ing Legislature realize that the "erad-
ication Of bovine tuberculosis is not
only measure Of great economic i'm.
portanee 10 the dairy and cattle indus
tries, but Is public health measure
as well" In discussing remedial meas
uros Il sayHs
IF for instance, COW u appraised
az 90 az q dairy animal and r. found
on post moriem rzhminatinn 10 BE- but
slightly Affected with tuberculosis and