The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-09-27
.DR. NEFF GIVES
LECTURE ABOUT
NILkPB0BLENS
Many Dairymen Present.
At Session Last
Evening
MANY DOCTORS THERE
Meeting One of the Re
suits of Kiwanis
Action
MANY DOCTORS THERE

Under the. joint auspices Of the
city Board of Affairs and the Mar
ion County Medical Society, an in.
teresting study on the care Of
dairies and the dangers Of impure
milk was held at the High school
auditorium last night, with DR..
George w. Nef of the state agri-
cultural department as lecturer and
expert adviser on the subject. The
meeting was the result of move
ment started some weeks ago by
the Kiwanis club to improve the
milk supply Of the city, and follow
ed the decision Of the city Board Of
Affairs to follow as closely as pos.
sible the croYisions of the milk
ordinance drawn up by DR.. Waddell
several years ago and enacted by
the city but which has been prac-
tically q dead letter. This decision
of the city fathers entailed the Sc
lection OF a full time health officer
resulting in the appointment of DR..
J. A. Janison, and the purchase by
the city, of sufficient laboratory
equipment to permit Of the usual
tests for. butter fat tuberculosis
tests, also to make daily tests Of
the city water supply.
The happy feature Of the meeting
last night was the interest shown
by the dairymen who supply the
city with milk, their presence in
iicating that they are interested in
the campaign for raising standards
and are anxious to become better
acquainted with modern dairy
methods. Among the dairyIneD
could be seen Mr.. and Mrs. George
w. Crush, Mr.. Nuzum, idairynen
at the ,Fairmont Farms, Harvey
Traugh MES w: w: Fleming, who
fsuppliesEm moro Of q who'll lesalea trade,
and dr. Granite ID. The medical
profession which has been, hell lpfuny
agitating the subject of better milk
was represented by Dr. l.. D. How
ard, ,E. W. Howard, DR.. j. B. Clin-
ton, DR.. ]. NJ. Trach, DR.. w. F.
Boyers, DIR. L. N. Yost, DR.. J. A.
Jannison, DR.. C. o. Henry, DR.. ]. o.
McNecly, dentist, and DR.. j. j.
Cranwell, veterinary surgeon for
the Consolidation Coal Company.
DR.. L. D. Howard took charge Of
the meeting, and explained the OBJ
jects, stating jokingly that he
hoped no serious inference might be
drawn from the fact that. the City
Board had put in charge Of the milk
affairs, the city water commits
sioner. He introduced L. N. Yost,
county health officer, who made a
few preliminary remarks as to the
Importance of the work, the big
step forward the city had taken,
and agai nemphasized the point
tina tthe campaign was constructive
in aim and did not mean to hurt
auyone's business, but to help it
through raising the standard, and
educating all to work up to it. He
presented DR.. Nef,. the speaker, a
man of pleasing personality who is
thoroughly acquainted with. his sub
ject. DR.. Neff had his operator
show two reel movie before the
lecture, a not over-drawn picture
as he said. but a screen portrayal
Of a story tha tactually happened,
with the exception that it did not
have the happy ending that the
scenario writer had imagined for
his spectators.
DR.. Netf stated that federal sup
ervision Of the live stock industry
was begun about ten years ago,
when the losses on the hoof and the
losses in the abattoirs from meat
that was not fit for consumption
rose to such proportions, ten bill
lions Of dollars, tina tit became such
monetary loss that the govern
nent was forced to recognize the
condition as a menace, and combat
it, In these ten years, constant ex-
animation Of herds, especially
breeding herds, the destroying Of
infected animals, and the improve
ment Of sanitary conditions have
brought the animal loss down to,
forty millions per year. DR.. Netf
then entered int GA rather. scientific
discussion of three methods of
testing cattle for tubercul losis, the
subcutaneous, the intradermic and
the aphthalmic, two Of which had
been shown in the movie, His state
.ments showing how prevalent tu-
berculosis is in dairy. herds, was
by his report Of the, Martinsburg
herd which showed seven "reactors'",
as infected animals were called out
Of a herd Of seventeen. Another
herd showed nineteen out Of sixty
infected. These cases were excep-
tions, however, he said, and the
state as a whole has only three or
four per cent infected animals,
which is very low.
The loss Of infected animals af-