Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-14
Medical Society of Hawaii In
dorSeS His inspection Work
BY Resolution

urging that inspection Of TIE dairy
herds Of Hawai- be, continued for the
safety Of TIE public. Territorial Vet.
erinarisn v: a. korgasrd recently laid
before the Medical Society Of Hawaii
facts concerning the inspection and
also concerning a movement n a5o-
ish ID. His paper and the resultant
action Of the society in indorsrng his
stand are rdblished below.)
The efforts Of the Board OF A1ri-
cs.ture and Forestry at eradicatl1s
bovine tuberculosis have bear con
iipued during the pas year alan2 the
GENE lines as reported 10 this 1850
citation at the last two annual meet
legs.
While colnTlete eradication caunot
Yet he reported, the number Of da.r-
:es which may bo said To be free from
tuberculosis injection is steadily 81.
Crcasing and will when the years
testing has been finished. be fo-nd
10 be close To 80 per cent OF the -
dpiries tested mp TO this date. in
ciGding all dairies In Honolulu aud
vicinity, or 50 per cent. did not hape
single reactinR animal Up - THIS
cate, Novembe" %, total Of iN4j
GARY animals have heen tested, o.
Which number 400 were found Ee&iti,y
and las were condemned as tuber-
Caious. Nearly all Of these animals
were butchered and it is gratifying 70
ftate that only very small number
were found on post norton examine
tons to have the disease In 4 suit
GENTLY advanced state TO warrant the
condemnation Of the entire carcass
Z he most common LESSONS were mere
or less extensive tupercular nodules
IN the retropharyngeal bronchial! and
mGdiastinal glands and less frequent.
ly In the mesenteric, supramamary
and prescapular glands. Tubercnlous
nodnles in the lungs are becoming
more rare with every year, and cases
OF open tuberculosis are hardly ever
met with. IL may, therefore, be tax
en- for granted that many of the
dairies which still contained reactors
this year were freed of the infec.
ton with the removal of the infect
ed animals and the thorough disinfec
ton of the premises.
Many Still to be Tested
to be tested, the majority of which
belong to the railroad ranches and
the rest to dairies beyond Eva, in
all Of which few reactors will be
found.
Ii will, therefore, be seen that the
danger of transmitting bovine tuber-
culosis to children with milk, even
when uncooked or unpasteurized, has
been diminished to a considerable ex-
tent when compared to the conditions
obtaining six years ago, when more
than 80 per cent of the dairy cattle |
of Honolulu were tuberculons and |
many of them affected with advance
forms of the disease, such as tuber-
cniosis of the milk glands or udder.
A further safeguard against the dis
ease is the excellent pasteurization |
plant installed by the Honolulu
Dairymen's Association, where SO per
cent of all the milk consumed in Ho- |
nolulu is handled. The Gouncher cleo |
trio milk purifier, mentioned in my
previous papers before this assocl- !
alton, has recently been replaced withf
the best known pasteurizing plant on
the holding system. The electric plant
was a so-called flash pasteurized, |
while the new one heats the milk |
for half an hour TO a. temperature OF ,
l45 degrees Fahrenheit, thereby in
surfing the destruction of all patho-
genie micro-organisms. The temper
atnre and length of exposure is au'
tomatically registered and the record /
sheet filed daily with Food Commits
sfoner Hanson. In a similar way all |
cream and butter fat mixtures enter
ing into the manufacture OF ice cream
are sterilized at temperature of 100
degrees Fahrenheit, fact of import
aflce since the Rockefeller Institute
found the principal LESSONS of polio
myelitis TO be in the large intestines
and surmiZed that ice cream might be
one OF the vehicles OF infection.
a Sinister Aspect" Develops
While nothing but good can be said
about this excellent plant Of the I
Dairymen's Association. there is. new
ertheless, one sinister aspect TO il
which ] shall take the liberty to lay
before you. have been given TO UNI
derstand that q strenuous fight is go
ing to be made before the next leg
islature for the purpose of abolishing
the efforts OF my office at eradicat-
ing bovine tuberculosis and substitute
ing compulsory pasteurization of all
milk. As stated, there still remain
about . per cen: of tuberculous dairy
animals, or there did al least before
the last test was made; at any rate
sufficient of a nest egg to start the
disease spreading again. And while
it has taken six years to reduce its
prevalence from so to per cent, it
may safely be Predicted that it would
not take two years for it to regain
its former status Ii is. of course,
possible for a dairvman TO keep his
herd free or -;uberculous cattle, if
he so desires. out when there is no