The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-12
NEWSPAPER CLUB TO
DISCUSS NEW HOME
Meeting of Club Is To Be
Held at ROebuck Club
This Evening

The initiation of the active campaign
on the part of the Newspaper club of
Birmingham for the acquisition of perma-
nent headquarters will be undertaken to-
night at meeting to be held at the Roe
buck Golf and Automobile club.
The newspapers boys will leave Bir-
mingham in automobiles at $50 O'Clock
from point in front of The Age-Herald
office. At $50 o'cock Hardin II. Fits,
secretary of the Roebuck club, will give
instructions that the dinner be served.
Following the refreshments, the matter
of permanent headquarters will be dis
cussed.
While the club has not authorized a
statement as to its plans, it is apparent
that the organization for permanent head
quarters will be made with the view Of
inviting prominent citizens of this state
to affiliate in the capacity of honorary
members, these to have all the privileges
of the club save the right to vote and
otherwise participate in elections.
Quarters will be secured and the club,
it is expected, is destined to become the
down town. club of the city. A secre-
tary will be retained, and a buffet and
cafe installed
Considerable enthusiasm has been dem
i orstrated in the idea by well known citi-
zens, and the indications are that the
membership of the club will be, in the
very beginning, as large as 1000.
| I consider 14O degrees of heat in cooking
the food would kill the germ. The rea-
son would not consider this meat safe
| iS that there thousands of little
branches of the lymphatic glands running
all over the body between the tissues OF
the muscles. Although the main dis
eased gland could be removed these little
branches could not be except by cutting
the meat into small parts.
'I do consider there is danger of eX-
ternal inoculation of the operator who
removes the tubercular parts of a dis
eased cow Any meat boiled to decency,
however, l would consider safe for con-
sumption"
President Ward Next Heard
Dr. Ward, president of the Jefferson
County Medical society, stated that he
thought meat from cows affected In
one or two glands with tuberculosis
was safe for human consumption, even
| If cooked rare, and that cow con-
demned for milk purposes could be all
right for food purposes.
Bacteriologist Dunacn restated the
procedure of condemning cows as
given in a previous issue of The Age
Herald. He stated cows condemned as
mixers were allowed to be used for
beef, that every COW was killed after
being condemned, under the supervision
of his department, that the diseased
glands were removed before the car
cass was allowed to go for beer, that
every inspector in his department was
| a. competent man, that the city laws
were based on the federal laws in this
matter and that no COW was allowed
TO go for beef which was in an ad-
yanced stage of the disease.
DIR. Riggs Cites Case
| DIR. E. F. Riggs told of federal
meat inspector employed by the United
States government who came to him
for an examination and he found he
| had Tuberculosis of the skin. He con-
suited with Dr. Mudd Jordan and both
agreed that the man had contracted the
disease through handling the effected
parts of tubercular cows, and that ne
was treated for tuberculosis and cured.
He stated that Dr. Koch's opinion does
not nrevail and that it is generally ad
mitted by authorities that the disease
Is transferable between the human and
| tho hovine "I do not consider 1T safe
to eat the meat of COW who has been
| affected in any way with tuberculosis
he said. "A COW can be affected in one
gland. and nowhere else, but 1 would
| NOT consider IL safe to use the meat
i ~ a cow whose milk was no good.
Tests cannot be made after death as
surely as before death. There is some
| danger to other parts of the meat of
the carcass being infected while the
| Injected glands are being cut out"
| DR. Mudd Jordan verified DR.. Riggs
Ltestimony about the patient with the
| diseased skin
inspector Strickland, who works the
North birmingham territory, reiterated
| Mr. Duncan's testimony. He stated that
ali the instruments used in cutting af-
| fected parts from carcass were ster-
uizod before being used again.
| Several of the most important wit
| nesses it was stated We're not present,
| ;ncIuding one dairyman named Van
/ sent who had % cows killed. This man
and others will appear when the hear
ing Is resumed.
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