The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
CONNECTICUT BARS
TUDERCULbR COWS
Will Not Allow Segregation
and Use of Milk
for Food
DISEASED ANIMALS
ARE UNPROFTTABLE

der Lcsions-State Decides Pasteuriz-
alton Not Entirely Safe fer Milk of
That Nature.
HARTFORD. Conn, Aug. 20.-The
tubcrcular dairy COW is a condemned
animal i'll Connecticut. as far as Commits
sioncr ON Domestic Animals Whittlesey
is concerned
! There will be no more group quagan-
! tine of tubercular CATTLE" Commissioner
Whittlcsey declared. The commissioners
contention is that. whether pasteurized
or not. no milk from tubcrcular dairy
COWS should be sold for human consump-
ton. tuberculosis. Commissioner Whit
tlesey pointed out. is the most serious
disease of cattle and human beings with
la mortality rate Of approximately 20
per cent.
| From Oct. /. 1910, to Jan. I. 1921.
| Commissioner Whittlcsev explained, his
! department had tested 2.171 herds of
| dairy cattle and had condemned 6.622
!. COWS, This is exclusive. of the work
! done since the first of the year and es-
pecially since July l. when the depart
ment began to use the S1i0.0OO appropri-
alton voted by the general assembly to
further the eradication of bovine tuber
culosis.
! Il have advocated that work for
years. said Or F. II. Hooker, president
of the Hartford Society for the Proven
tion of Tuberculosis. Il am backing up
Commissioner Whittlesey thoroughly"
= much prefer not to have that milk
sold DIR. Hooker said. relative to Com
missioner Whitt!esey's stand against the
sale Of milk produced by an infected COW.
Dr. Hooker said he favored the sale of
two kinds of milk only. enc from tuber-
Cuiin tested cows free from al disease
and the other pasteurized milk.
| These two brands are not regulated
here. as l understand it said Dr.
Hooker, although the sale is regulated
in other municipalities. From an eco
monte point of view ii is foolish for the
farmer and the dairymen to keep in
fected cattle for milk production
| Commissioner WhittlCScv quoted Or
John T. Black. head Of the state depart
mcnt of health. a. having made the fol
lowing statement relative to the sale Of
milk from infected cattle:
:. The use of milk from tuberculouS
cows constituted a distinct menace TO
public health. The findings of able in
veStigators show that n very large nro-
portion If tuberculosis in young children
is Of the bovine type"
I'm his letter to the Hartford board
of health explaining his stand on the
| tNFlitN OF SH&fP1tlilN1 lfIf9Af1l c.lIifN ana
on which the board acted Wednesday at
its meeting, Commissioner Whittlcsey
said:
1T is the opinion of the commissioner
on domestic animals that the mainten-
ance- of such Il herd IS not profitable
neither does it appear that such herd,
are in keeping with tho health standards
Of orr state and city even in view of
the fact that this milk is pasteurized."
Commissioner Whittlesey called alton
tion Of the Hartford board of heath to
'the Importance of the milk supply to
the city of Hartford, more especially the
source Of supply" And explained tho for
nation Of two infected herds of dairy
cows, lie explained that the agreement
under which tho herds were assembled
and said
'''The condition which I wish 10 bring
: most specifically TO your attention IS the
fact that whom these cows. tuberculaU
: cows are picked ont n certain herds and
: brought tcgether that their period of
usefulness does not an0ear of lang dnra-
4 ton. They break down very quickly.
MANY devaloping u,ldcr LESSONS Of tn
herculGr nature Gnd MANY showing the
particular trharcular focti in The mann
lnar~ liiaRhatic glands or. udder.
~ has t"cn necessary 70 remove nj
each phrsicA' examination 2 large MN
hor Of animais or nr"ount of these rlrSi-
cal defects. especially TIC Ipldrr LESSONS.
Pest 0ortcn ey2"linatio,s have shown
that Iaenv Gcacral;1el cases Of tThercii-
I loeiS. toe r'nu-. making ones confidence
,of tho products Of Srch cows little
; doubtful. especially if there should b
s z slip during the act of pasteurization.
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