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

and started on these 100000 farms IN
ness as shown by the degrees of tuber-
culosis in the inspected, tagged, trace
able hogs that tested the herd units
| Leave the other 100000 farms alone
and save Ell time, money b ana energy the
1O1,S96 people in the U. s. who died of
tuberculosis last year--of the 7b per
cent said to have tuberculous LESSONS
@ seSeGs yHpis sst q
of tuberculosis-Of the unknown thou
sands who have died during the past 81
years, some 80 years ago as babies, and
tween. Who, had they lived, would have
been Of draft age-the loss Of all Of
whom weakened our war and genius and
industrial man power, and whom we
primary Injection from the same uber-
culous cows that have been injecting
the millions Of tuberculous hogs found
by government inspectors during the
Ana is tuberculosis really city dis
ease? Il n ssf
Take Crawford county, Indiana, near
the human population center, for In
stance, and which is the blacklist and
worst county an that wheel state fo Or
which Indianapolis is located, the four
times largest city. yet 1t stands only
fifth In a tuberculosis death rate, and
this may be due to the slum conditions
Of present or past period in the sur
conditions in the homes) Crawford
county has 304 square miles OF outdoors.
Less than $4,000. people live In the coul,-
\ ty. They are scattered on 1851 farms
and in 81 towns and villages, The larg-
Il is GouStfai Il there sss is threestory
tenement in the county, and II every
house Is not at least ten feet from ev-
cry other house, and some several miles
room has not one or more outside win
dows. This is certainly not city condi-
tions
Yet in six year period (1909-14) "a
per cent of the human deaths in this
country ~ county were due to tqbsrculos
board Of health. wrote me that IN the
last ten years 1000 people died Of tu-;
berculosis in this country county Of less
than 13,00N Can suchta record be ex-
ceeded or even parglleled in the worst
lung block in the worst city Of Amert-
might reveaiseveiss s conditions, 3
Is IN view OF such facts, no unscientifics
exclusive query or Investigation, con-
iinsd solely t. the human living q c9n :la
degree confessions and .recollections q
ssaSsociation" (some Of whom might,
have been victims Of an unconscious
common cause) OF the people of this,
county Cor any ot1er) and Deductions
from the same, should satisfactorily eX-
plain this high human mortality rate to
any broad scientific person, group or or
ganizatiOn, until at the same time 1t Is
positively ascertained what the COWS and
herds Of this county will, are, and have
been doing to the hogs of this county
during the past thirty years or more.
and an intensive survey conducted, d.
rectly tracing to all consumers the milk
from the open tuberculous herds Of cows
culfn reactOrs. most OF which are, harm
less-and on the other hand tracing back
to the lifetime sources of milk OF all hui
mans that died Of tuberculosis
No such survey has ever been conduct
ed In stable rural community, where
there are fewer transient, and where old
settlers often know where their grand
parents and nearly every neighbor for
years got their milk, often without
change, as well as family history and
gossip. Not only have they inherited
farms and houses, but also cows and
herds and milk sources in many i'm
~ II
Most human tuberculosis surveys have
been conducted in lung blocks" Of the
city, and generally by those obsessed
With the inter-hunlAn Transmission or
social condition view. Here are mobil- 4
xed an unf6presentative fmpovefisheds|
scum population, many born In the 4
country here or abroad: all Of them get
Ting their food from the country, and
whose individual histories and milk sup
,lies from birth and babyhood are nee