New Britain herald., 1919-01-14
DISEASED COWS IN
| TOWN FARMS barn
hld, Curtis Says Inmates Were
Fed Improper Butter and Milk

ress today. 1t is entitled THE
1augAtering Of stock at the Town
Farm" and alleges that diseased ami
nails were kept at the farm and the
milk and butter derived from them
ras given to the inmates of the inSti-
1tion.
The statement follows:
April, 1918 Municipal Record re-
orted at the Town Farm. three
orses IS COWS, two heifors, one calf,
see Page 141D
Butter made. 2,113 pounds, besides
G milk which fully supplied tho
ONE consumption, (sec Page 1859
II am informed that in 1917, some
the stock had been sick and dis
osed of, also that one animal had
cen killed or died and was buried.
lso that it is the policy of the State
uthoydties to advise that stock be-tcst
d out by tuberculin test, at least once
ach six months and that it should
e done before they are placed in now
uarters or when changes of keep are
o be made
Revised State statute, Chap. 26,
oc. 24S1, states that any persons
knowingly selling milk from n dis
ased animal after condemnation by
he Commissioner of Domestic Ami
halls shall be subject to fine or i'm
fisoRment or both. The best medl-
al authorities of the civilized world
gree that milk from a COW affected
nth tuberculosis is unfit and in1urt-
us for human food. DR.. Moore, late
superintendent OF the board of health
Ind DIR. Reel1s now member of the
bard. back this statement up. MI
erous city ordinances to safeguard
e public along this line are operative
bee in the February report Of the
ty board of health article on that
Infect from Prof. Milton J. Reseneau
Il Harvard College.) The board of
ealth have in their employ a veter-
harlan whose duties are principally
pnfined to inspections Of dairy herds
the city and surrounding towns
rom which milk is distributed to the
eople- Of this city. Sanatoriums for
he treatment of tuberculosis are
bread all over the country and mill
ons and millions of dollars expended
1ch year for the relief and cure of
eople afflicted with this disease.
''I might say in this connection that
fr Frank f. Riley is one of the &C
I've members of the city board of
ealth and would be supposed to be
well as being the chairman Of the
card of public charities.
''It is also we'll understood that
hedical authorities advise the pasteu-
ization or sterilization OF milk before
sing it for food especially when it is
o be used for children or the sick.
IF there is no risk or harm in using
ailk from diseased cows it would
eem folly for the federal and state
oveTRments to be spending millions
f dollars each year for slaughtered
nimals. It would be foolishness for
he city of New Britain to be eXpend-
ng its few thousands endeavoring to
prevent the sale Of impure milk.
TN January last in company with
shree. gentlemen, we'll known in town,
re visited the new barn which had
been occupied ten days or two weeks.
Most every one will rem ember that we
had continued cold weather for per-
APPS two months, the seVerest winter
Inown since weather records have
een kept. The barn is supposed to
ave an up-to-date ventilating system.
She fresh air coming from the out
de through registers in the ceiling
nd being colder than the warm air
asideS at the top, drops to the bot
pm where there are foul air ducts,
he air currents thus formed forcing
he foul air out. The barn when shut
b is nearly an air tight box and with
he extreme weather at that time had
seen generally closed. Some of the
ONE attendants were there. One Of
hem was in charge. He complained
tho trouble they had in keeping out
pc cold as the glass in the windows
as continually cracking, breaking
nd falling out and the openings had
ben closed with bagging stuffed in.
Eere was Il new building just Occupied
hid a lot of meal bags stuffed in the
Findows around, which of curse APP
eared very tidy. While standing on
he floor observing the conditions
later dropped on us occasionally and
boxing up the whole ceiling of the
arm was seen to be covered with large
rops Of water. The man in charge
id not seem to understand the reason
or it and when I asked If the venti-
Elton did not work he did not know.
occurring a step ladder l got up to the
killing register which ! found closed
ght and also found the others in the
anne condition. No one understood
was necessary to open them. No
lords or hooks to operate them had
been furnished, or instructions given
to bow to manage this $4,000 to
10000 structure. BlOOdod stock,
Iorses, etc, had been kept many
lights and some days without fresh
ir, calculations from the stock had
condensed on the ceiling; it had
welled tAe woodwork, especially the
windows so that they had crumpled or
buckled and crushed the glass. On the
op of that the stock was compelled
o breathe over and over the foul air
Ind the air from each other. It was
Explained to the foreman that it was
ecessary to have fresh air and that it
ras q wonder the stock was not all
HEX. Human beings would have been