The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-12

ever, and found six of these cows in
cold storage. When l asked why that
was, they told me that they had not
had time to throw all of the con-
demned ones into the tank. l had two
more condemned this year and sold
| them both to Mr.. Lewis on twenty
fourth street."
| On a question from DIR. Nelson, wit
ness stated the cows were slaughtered
at slaughter house under the super
| vision of an inspector from the city
health department. On question from
Judge Lane witness stated the cows
/ were slaughtered when he sold them.
Wylam Dairymen. Testifies
"They condemned 10 of my cows in
February 1911" said D. C. Bell, dairy
man, of Wylam. II drove them to the
North Birmingham packing house, five
of them We're tanked and the other
five were used for beef and I was paid
| for them / have had 81 condemned
since and they have allowed me to
wait until the state man comes and
and inspected them. Mr.. Duncan has
| offered to let me sell them for beef
| Il had six condemned" said a Mr.. Mat
| thews. dairyman. "three of which were In
| 1910. Two of these three I sold to Mr..
| Phillips of the Birmingham Packing COM
pany They were inspected after being
killed and showed no effected glands. The
| entrails were taken out but the carcasses
were not cut apart"
| Had Four Cows Condemned
.Tn the spring of last year I was con-
nected with the Cloverdale dairy said
w. H. Moore, dairyman. I'VE had II
big cows shipped here and shortly after
wards four of them were condemned. we
| got $110 for the four cows that We're con-
demned when we sold them for beef Dr.
Paine said that tuberculosis showed I'D
in two of them after they were killed
and in the other two 1t did not"
| IT had eight cows condemned" said W.
M Westbrook. dairyman. "They were
slaughtered at the packing house. three
| were tanked and five were sold for beef.
I got between $50 and $50 for the bunch"
DR.. Parke Takes Stand
1 DR.. T. d. Parke took the stand He
was asked whether or not bovine tubercu-
lcsis was transferable to humans. He
said many contended 1t was and many
contended 1t was not but that his own
personal belief is that it was He stated
there was no great difference between
| bovine and human tuberculosis, that DR..
Robert Koch. the famous physician. had
stated the disease was not transferable
between the two animals but that later
| authorities had rejected this belief
4 my appetite would not be vigorous -
/ he said. '1f knew the meat I was eat
| ing was part OF a COW which had had
tuberculosis He stated, however. that
there was no danger in eating this meat.
If it was properly cooked as the heat
would kill the germ.
DIR. Cunningham Heard
Tuberculosis is a specific disease,
stated DR.. r. M. Cunningham, .'it Is rare
ly IL ever inherited. Some animals are
predisposed to the disease, humans more
than any other. And likewise there are
certain tissues in the body predisposed
to the disease just like those of certain
animals. In humans this is the lungs and
In the COW it is the glands
THE transmission of bovine and hu.
man tuberculosis between the two ami.
mails is displted. DR.. Koch didn't deny
it. but he wouldn't admit it. The con.
sensus of present day opinion is however
that bovine tuberculosis is transferab biz
to the human race. Milk is the mair
cause of this transmission and the muscu
lar tissues of the COW are not nearly as
liable to the disease as the glands.
"The meat of tubercular COW cannot
be declared safe to any great extent fol-
human consumption as food. in my belief