The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-12-08
VETERINARIAN.
GIVES OPINION

DR.. Low Points Out Desirable Features
of New Ordinance and Explains
Its Application
WILL PROTECT THE CHILDREN
Thirty Per Cent of tuberculosis in
Infants Due to Impure Milk
There has long been a prevailing
sentiment that Oakes should have the
protection of an ordinance prohibiting
the sale Of unwholesome and diseased.
milk. While any urban community
owes to itself this measure of SANTA
tion, our need for such protection is
especially urgent when we consider
that it is statistical fact that bovine
tuberculosis is highly prevalent in
cattle herds of this section of the
state. While tuberculosis Of cattle
may not be readily transmitted to the
human adult, it is now generally con-
ceded that infants and children are
quite susceptible to infection by the
bovine tubercle bacilli through the
medium of dairy products. Some en-
inent authorities estimate as high as
thirty per cent of the tuberculosis of
infants and children due to infection
from this origin.
We must eliminate the tubercular
COW from our dairy herds and protect,
in measure at least, our children and
ourselves against the dreaded "white
plague" "the pestilence that walks in
the dark" With this object in view,
our city attorney, Mr.. Guy, after care
fully studying milk ordinances in op-
Grafton in other towns, has drafted an
ordinance which it is thought will ade-
quately meet the requirements of our
town, and presented it at the council
meeting last Monday evening. It
reads as follows:
can ordinance to prohibit the sale Of
impure or diseased milk or cream, and
providing for tuberculin test and in
spection Of all milch cows; and fixing
penalty. .
"Be it ordained by the city council
of the city of Oakes:
"Article 1. It shall be unlawful. for
any person, firm or corporation to Of
fer or expose for sale, or to barter or
sell, any milk or cream for family use
as food within the corporate limits Of
the city Of Oakes, unless the COW or
cows from which said milk or cream
is drawn shall have been tested with
in one yeas for tuberculosis D>a.ld ii2-
spected for other diseases which are
accompanied by fever and said COW
or cows found to be free from such
disease or diseases. Such examination
and tuberculin test shall be made and
health certificates issued in duplicate
by federal or state veterinarian, dep
uty state veterinarian, or by a grad
uate veterinarian whose inspections
and tests are Endorsed and accepted by
an officer in charge Of the live stock
sanitary work of the state. Provided,
however, that diseases of the udder or
retained placenta shall nullify any pre-
vious health certificate. All tubercu-
lin tests must conform to the standard
tuberculin tests Of the United States
department Of Agriculture.
"Article 2. "A copy of the tubercu-
lin test. and health certificate shall be
filed with the city auditor, one copy
shall be retained by the person, firm
or corporation SO offering or exposing
for sale or bartering or selling milk
or cream, which shall be presented for
inspection on demand of any person
buying milk or cream.
"Article 8. The names of all per-
sons, firms or corporations complying
with this request shall be published in
the official newspaper of the city at
least every six months.
"Article a. Penalty. Any person,
firm or corporation violating any of
the provisions of this ordinance, or ne
glecting Or refusing to comply there
with, shall, upon conviction, be pun
ished by fine of not exceeding twen-
ty-five dollars, or by imprisonment in
the city Jail not exceeding fifteen days,
or by both such fine and imprison-
ment.
"Article 5. This ordinance shall
take effect and be in force from and
after it's passage, approval and pub
lication."
Referring to the practical applica-
ton of this ordinance, the testing of
the dairy herds may be done at the
states expense.
In the event that an animal reacts,
it will be condemned and a conserva-
tive appraisal allowed, not to exceed
$4,000 for a grade animal and no more
than $4,000 for a pure bred animal
over two years old. The reactor af-
ter being identified by tag and
brand is shipped to market where
federal supervision is maintained, and
there slaughtered, the final disposition
Of the carcass being designated ac-
cording to the post mortem findings
Of veterinarian EN-! loyed by the u.
s. bureau Of animal industry. The
amount obtained from the salvage is
deducted from the appraised value of
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