The Washington times., 1914-11-10
DISTRICT ADDED TO
QUARANT|NED AREA
Foot and Mouth Disease Will Be
Checked as Far as Health
Bureau Can Act.
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to Immediately report any shipment Of
hay and fodder from the quarantined
areas into the District, and the dairy
to keep close watch on herds supplying
the District. Should the disease appear
in any herd the license Of the dairy
man would be Immediately revoked.
Following Is the Health Departments
bulletin:
danger Of contracting foot and mouth
disease. While foot and mouth disease
has not yet appeared. so far as Is
known, in any dairy herd from which
milk is brought into the District Of
Columbia, YET the disease has appeared
In the State Of Maryland. In which there
are TAG dairy farms and approximately
tr;ct. In view of the number Of such
farms and cattle snd the wide area over
which they are distributed, 1t is not un-
likely that the disease may find its way
into some Of the dairy herds from which
the milk supply Of the District Is de-
before its presence becomes known to
the Health Department.
Boil the Milk.
Boiling of milk destroys its infective
properties. The safety of boiled milk
as an article Of diet is demonstrated by
the fact that milk is commonly used In
European and tropical countries only
after being boiled and that 1t Is so used
without harmful effect. All the large
baby feeding dispensaries In Europe,
commonly known as infant consultations
because they are designed to advise
rather than to treat sick babies, supply
boiled milk or order the milk to >be
given boiled.
A recent English investigator for the
British local government board who de-
sired to investigate the relation of the
boiling of milk to which availability as
a food for babies had to abandon her
attempt to find series Of babies nearer
than New York city fed on raw cows
milk, because sho could find no such
series. After q lengthy investigation,
however. she reported that as the re-
suit of annual feeding she had con-
cluded that when an animal was fed
species, boiled milk gave more salts
factory results than similar raw milk.
Tho Berlin figures she reported deal
ing with infants fed on boiled cows
milk gave such extremely favorable re-
suits that they could scarcely be ex-
pected to be surpassed had raw cows
mix been used.
The proper pasteurization Of milk
may be relied upon to destroy the
disease carrying properties of milk
exposed to infection >by foot and
mouth disease. and II It Is known
that milk has been properly. pasteur-
ized boiling Is unnecessary. As mat
ter of fact. however, much Of the
milk sold in this District Is not prop
erly pasteurized and the treatment to
which il is subjected cannot be relied
upon to destroy the infection Of foot
- -. I4.kr nvAxy
aaa atner mGntn infection. For % that % reason K
is not safe to rely upon milk bought
in the market as pasteurized milk
unless it has been definitely shown
that the process Of so-cal1ed pasteur-
ization to which the dealer resorts Is
in fact true .pasteurfzation and IS
properly done"
Fourteen tSates Quarantinei.
Extension of the live stock quaran-
tine for foot and mouth disease to
Kentucky. making fourteen States un-
der Federal quarantine. was ordered
by the Department Of Agriculture today,
following discovery Of three diseased
cattle in a herd OF eight in Bullitt coun-
ty, KY. A..
cause of the foot and mouth epidemic
importations Of American live stock In
to Canad would be prohibited until the
danger subsidies. Quarantine against
Canadian live stock, ordered yesterday.
now prevents all movement of stock be-
tween the two Countries.
The Canadian embargo on cattle ship
ment, Department Of Agriculture Off
cials stated, would not prevent ship
ment Of meat between the two countries.
Slight spread of the foot and mouth
trouble in Indiana was reported today.
Extension of the stock scourage into
Kentucky caused some alarm among de-
partment heads, who had hoped to pre-
vent inroads Of the disease into South
ern States.
The department today vigorously de-
MED published reports that Secretary
Houston has advised destruction Of the
1000 pedigreed cattle Of the stock show
in the yards at Chicago. 1t was stated
thai such action Is not contemplated. On
the contrary the department is doing
everything possible to prevent loss Of
the fancy stock. There are now only
thirty-four of the show animals infected.
No new cases have developed among
them since Friday.
Isolation of the whole herd Of exhfbi-
ton breeding cattle Is being considered
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