The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-07-07
TUBERCULAR cow
GREAT Menace
New York Physician Presents Fig
ures on White Plague. Growth

New York, July DR. julius Ro-
senberg, specialist i'm tuberculosis,
seeks I'm the current issue of the New
York Medical journal to show that
the campaign against that disease has
made no substantial Roadway i'm the
last twenty-five years. He gives fig
ures from official reports of state
boards of health, municipal statistics
of the principal cities here and abroad
and quotes health officers in support
of his assertion.
Even these figures" he says, pre-
sent more favorable aspect than ac-
tual conditions. No observer believes
that the deaths recorded as due TO tu-
berculosis of the lungs or other types
represented the total malady. Law
renee Twill reported I'm the Medical
Times of July, 1913, that the ordinance
providing for the report of all living
cases is Systematically ignored, and
after death certificates are issued reg
istering the cause as pneumonia
'broncho- pneumonia chronic bron-
chitis,' etc.
Few sufferers from tuberculosis
remain in the city if they can scrape
enough money together to go away.
They die in California, Colorado, New
Mexico and their deaths do not appear
in the records of their home city.
Figures From Six Cities.
Il have tabulated the number of
deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis
of six cities, in which in 1908, with IA
population of 1,Gl5,00O there occurred
$3.50 deaths; and a year ago. with "A
population of 1,S4S,O0O the number of
| fatalities grew to 3,144. Surely there is
no cause here for Fluctuations"
DR. Rosenberg calls attention to the
| fact that since Koch spoke of serious
| infection from tuberculous cattle as
comparatively rare, little care has been
exercised to exclude the product of
! the consumptive COW.
| How extensive is the infection of
dairy cattle may be seen from reports
in my possession" he continues
Washington, ID. c., Rochester, n. Y.
and New Haven, Conn, found milk
| tests To give positive evidence of tu-
| berculosis in 20 per cent of the spcci-
mems. The health department of Bos-
ton estimates the proportion of tu-
| berculous animals producing the city
supply at from 20 to % per cent.
THE number of cows i'm the city
abattoirs averages 5000, and of these
about 1000 are found to be unfit for
consumption. According to govern
ment reports, Kansas has 722, 200 dairy
cows and the proportion of tubcrcu-
losis. animals is not less than 100, GOO
Id per cent. The New York state
report Of 1911 contains statements dis
closing conditions beyond description
which but for the source of informa-
ton would not be accepted as, true.
"The health officer of Buffalo, after
discussing the city milk supply and
the efforts TO improve it, saws there
is no diminution of tuberculosis and
the states effort in elimination is neg.
ligible; the markets are at all times
flooded with tuberculosis animals to be-
slaughtered for food"
Abolish the Tuberculous Cow.
Because of Koch's statements the
tuberculous cow and bovine bacillus
have entrance into the houses Of tn,
best. Let no man be confident of hi.
safety because he paid ~ or Is cents
quart for milk; butter and chees,
provide the same means To gain ad.
mission.
ut is high time for physicians e
recognize conditions as they are: that
the mortality from tuberculosis Is
about the same with no prospect Of