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VACCINATING
Cattle To Stop Spread OF
tuberculosis
Physician Establishes LabFa-
tory In Dairy Center

New York, July 31-On the theory
that the way to check the headway of
tuberculosis is to attack the disease at
its source, DR.. julius Rosenberg has
set up laboratory in Margaretville,
N. Y, the center of large dairy dis
trict, where he is vaccinating cattle
against the disease The dairymen
thereabout have entered fully into his
plans, with the result that within
few months the herds have been wholly
freed of tubercular infection, and all
the milk from there is not only inn
mune, but 1t is charged with anti
bodies" or antitoxin qualities, which
are of assistance in the expulsion of
bovine tuberclese from human pa
tients.
DR.. Rosenberg in the New York
Medical Journal, showed by tabulated
reports of health statisticians in this
country and abroad that tuberculosis
has been spreading in spite of the Wig.
orous campaign against it for the last
twenty years. Conclusions to the
same effect were embodied in papers
read in the last week in Atlantic City
by specialists at the annual conven-
tion there of the American Medical
association.
Il was led into my present work"
DR.. Rosenberg said at his residence,
55 e. 77th ST., latter attentive study
for long time of the means devised
by physicians in various countries for
the amelioration of the plague. Their
theories regarding cleanliness were
perfectly wholesome from a sanitary
standpoint, for dirt breeds and ag-
gravates disease; but cleanliness
alone never did and never can over
come tuberculosis. Change of climate
Is help, but that recourse is beyond
the reach of the majority of the
afflicted.
'In my studies ! learned that in the
hospital for deformities and joint
diseases, for instance, the majority Of
tubercular cases were due to bovine
Infection; and in my observation that
was the origin of the majority OF
cases among the young in or out of
hospital. Healthy milk is one OF the
chief items in the diet of consump.
tives The unfortunates | saw, as is
true in nearly all cases of bovine in.
fection, are thus encouraged in treat
ment to take into their systems extra
quantities of the very food that
poisoned them. 1t is thus no wonder
they get no relief ana that the disease
spreads
"Friedmann and other nostrums
soon prove their inefficiency. Nc
specific has yet been found for tuber
culosis. 1t is possible however, to
make cattle immune from the dis
ease, and it is to our power to shut of
| the tubercular supply, so to speak
bdl 10 llt NOlh nav "
When milk ceases to be cause there
will be marked falling off in tuber
culosis. While infected milk reaches
the markets ii will be useless to hope
for relief
Some Of the talk concerning pro
| tective measures emphasizes the
benefits of pasteurization of milk
admit that pasteuriZation at 140 de
grees or thereabouts reduces the
quantity of tubercular germs in milk
There Is not so much danger in 10,0OC
germs in given quantity of milk as
in 10,000,00O, but complete destruction
does not occur b ythat means. DIR
William II. Potts, of the New Yorl
Research Laboratory made exhaus
tive heat tests in 1911, and in his of
fetal report for that year. volume
six, he said he found bacilli that sur
vived boiling, DR.. Krumwiede joined
in that report, The book on dis
eases of Children" by Park and Holt
says in the part dealing with tuber
cular bacllli that pasteurization mere
ly diminishes the number of germ
in milk.
"As the pasteurization of milk doe
not guard those who drink it agains
tuberculark infection we must loo
further for preventive-to tn
source of infection, to the animal, Ge
rid of the initial pollution and tn
supply will become purified. Their
is no other way to check the disease