The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-12-25

VS. SPECIAL
DEPARTMENT
to desiccation in dark, well ventilated
place, human tubercle bacilli were dead
I'm four days and bovine in eight days.
hs fss taa spa s'a IS such
! that it is glued in thin Transparent lay
ers to the floor, and generally held and
exposed to the light for much longer
cie bacilii before they become part Of the
dust and inspired air. may modify the
i past views OF many open minded men.
~ conditions compelled him 70 az one
/ choose to expose his susceptible child in
4 b room with a careless open case OK ny.
man tuberculosis, or to have the child
shich the worst Of the above cotton discs
VS. Isn,t It peculiar that tia bovine type,
lis so frequently found In children, and
the human type in adults? What be-
daen o e hs nayas IN Whom @
examined today is found not the bo-
vine, hut the human type? Did the
bovine ana
did the type" change? What type viii
| be found Is years from now IN the ex-
which which the bovine TYPE exists today
and when they become adults? Think
| 1t over and we may forget type" and
save life.
There is opportunity Tor az interest
lection as occurred with the miasma Of
yellow fever. a
appeal to- the younger generation Of
Iopen minded scientists to research and
lre-read the testimonials and controyer.
| sial literature Of the authorities OF,
years ago, that determine some Of the
ls'calf paths" so many of us were ana
are and can he led into. and with the
existing knowledge Of 1918 differentiate
Their lEays s acsePsaS!S f1om
always possible of serious error Read
with charity, but between the lines. the
sworn Testimony OF experts of 1900. OF
which the following is recorded typi-
s.The position took several wears ago.
THAT certain differences between bovine
and human tubercle bacilli do exist. has
bovine tubercuiosis great menace tog
public health unless the inferencesy de-
ducible from my studies are wrong
to say that IL 1t had not been for the
strong and successful efforts Of Stratus
certified milk commissions and others
for clean, or pasteurfzed milk and IN
apscsed meas par,sa 81 one. n ma to
day be suffering from real EPIDEMIC
4 Of 5tuberculosis. Early recognition and
approved treatment has also REDUCED
the death rate, Future mortality his
held Even the covered milk pail may
share life saving honors s55,
q Many misinfornied and mlsgMded
health officers have made regulations
actually prohibiting hogs around dairy
cows and barns. This is wrong. The:
facts are. hogs make COW quarters clean
er by their scavenger habits. and in adj
dition the, hogs test the sanitary condi-
should be encouraged and the false esr
3thetic view must be ignored.
The consensus Of opinion is in favor
Of the testing Of every farm for tuber-
vantage OF and supply the simple miss
ing link Of test that Is going on right
now on the 5000 900 farms ct this coun- |
CAM associate with each other in the
same pens or pastures. gss5s;S
The pig and hog under present agri-
cultural practices. working night and
day during its entire short lifetime OF i
less than a year, is more practical /
and scientific tester and detective than
any human inspector or expert. the de-
own post n1ortem and life sacrifice inJ
commerce Did God give the pig its hab@4
It's for our protection? &
Laboratory experimental guinea pigs
have long been used to ascertain andsg
confirm certain pathologic and bacterto- II
logic facts The common ION. asricr cultural
Il w will but use him. SupDosing tho
tubercle bacillus and tuberculinH had III
never been discOyered--yet we knew III
lcian had 100 human cases 81 suspected L
each OF whom he desired III
to ascertain whether negative or posi- ID
tive. Surprising he collected 100 bot. III
guinea pigs takes q bottle and q guinea
1t with sputum, throws It II
Into pen, another sample into another
pig and into the same pen, and Likewise III
hundred guinea pigs In month or six II
weeks kill and autopsy all the guinea
pigs. Finds SO free Of disease and SO l,
8, N various us degrees Wonaa
No! because he had not tagged or labeled L
his guinea pigs. No man would con- II
duct such an experiment. Yet just as
the United States Of America in 1918.
Hats off to the American Hog. Tag him Y
and he. will help win the war in more y
ways than one. II A VI III
Looking at the next picture did this
man, 20 years ago. either
out in the country or in the city, az a II
baby or. child, get his primary infection
from mix luIecleQ Win particles OF the IL
same tuberulous manure from the same 7
cows that infected the ma
nure that infected the tuberculous hogs 7
that government inspectors found IN the
packing 4 plants 20 years ago+who
knows? That is looking backward at
the irreparable past W. IA
I Now looking forward! Who knowsEs
how many Of the thousands Of babies
and youngsters are right now drinking
The raw iunpasteurized milk from the
very same stuberculous cows and herds 4,
that are injecting the over 10000 tuber-
culous hogs government Inspectors are II
now finding daily in the packing houses
Of this country-and the germs lying Y
dormant and active-5-10-ll IL
l5-2O-2b Years later latter many Of the IN
young people will have gone to- the II
cities) the germs finally sicken and kill n
them as shown? Who knows ia
And yet those tuberculOus cows could Il,
be located within year IL farmers prop III
srly marked the hogs they market with n
their name and Ks address. Today the II
PROBLEM is on 100000 farms because i
we do not know which ones. II only 10 II
per cent of them have the disease, the
problem would thus be reduced to $780, liz
700 surveyed and known farms. All the
money and work should be concentrated III
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