The Washington times., 1914-11-11
BOIL MILK, WARN
HEALTH OFFICIALS
Fourteen Cases Of Cattle Plague
Near Germantown, Md,
Bring Peril Nearer.

Discovery Of fourteen cases of foot
and mouth disease three miles from
Germantown, Nd, on a farm in the i'm
mediate vicinity of d2iries that produce
milk for sale i'll Washington. brought
added warning from District health
authorities today that all milk should
be boiled.
Spread of the foot and mouth disease,
quarantine in fourteen States and
moved the Canadian government to
place a quarantine on al shipments of
cattle from the United States, was fur
ther aggravated today by the discovery
OF sixty-fivc new cases among fancy
breeding cattle at the national dairy
show in the Chicago stock yards,
bringing the total number of cases
among this blooded stock up TO 90.
$4,000 Animals Attacked.
Officials of the Department of AgrI-
culture were notified that some of the
biooded bulls Infected are valued at as
high as $4,000. For this reason the
regulation providing for the immediate
slaughtering Of infected stock was set
aside in the case of the infected cattle
At the dairy show. All efforts will be
made to save this valuable stock and
10 prevent the further spread among
other herds at the show.
A herd of 800 cattle in Westmore' and
county, Pa, has been found to be in
tected with the disease. Another case
was found H. Erie county, n. Y. Both
these States have beer under quaran-
tine.
District health authorities discovered
the fourteen cases near Germantown.
They were on the farm of James X.
Jones. on the Dawsonville road. The
farm was Immediately quarantined, and
all possible steps have been taken to
limit the spread of the disease.
This outbreak. 4 was stated was di-
Iectly traceable to the union stock
yards at Chicago. About a week ago
twenty-five head of cattle were brought
TO the farm from Chicago, and it was
among these that the disease appeared.
Boil Milk Is Warning.
Health OFFICER Woodward, when in
formed, that the farm is in the vicinity
OF farms which produce milk for sale
in Washington, said that the discovery
of these cases lends additional empha-
sis 10 the recommendation of the
Health Department that milk be boiled
before it is used, unless the customer
is assured that 1t has been properly
pasteurized.
Reports which have gained circulation
that the embargo on shipments of cattle
would extend to turkeys, chickens
geese, and ducks, which aroused appre-
hension owing to the approach of
Thanksgiving, Were denied by experts
of the Department of Agriculture.
There has been no quarantine placed
on poultry shipments, either dead or
alive, except from infected farms. from
which all sh pments of produce are pro-
thiofted. This WI not be sufficient to
cahse ANY appreciable shortage in
Thanksgipsng poultry. officials declare.
= turkeys and chickens are classed as
mechanical carriers of the disease. sbut
tney are immune from Infection. In
this respect department experts point
out, poultry is favored more than hu.
mans, and they add emphasis TO the
warning given by District health au-
thoriues that milk should be boiled, ow-
ing to the danger that children might
be infected through drinking milk from
infected cattle.