The daily Alaskan., 1921-12-20
NEED SEEN FOR SANITATION
 IN ALASKA DIARIES

As a follow-up on the recent in- spection of dairy cattle in Alaska, the territorial board of health is preparing to promulgate certain reg ulatious covering matters of sanita- ton to keep the dairies up to a nor nal standard, according to a state ment issued from the office of the territorial commissioner of health, pr. II. C.. DeVighne An annual in spection of herds alone cannot keep the dairies up to standard unless re inforced by necessary sanitary regu- lations, said Dr. GeVighne.
 Touching on the need for herd in- spection and rigid enforcement of regulat!ons. the statement issued by the commissioner of health said:
 There are intelligent people in this world who claim to believe that disease is merely a matter of false belief. Others, equally intelligent have learned the melancholy truth that it is always an undesirable u.- nfction and often a dreadful tragedy. There was time when it was taught and commonly believed that the variety of tuberculosis found iu cattle. pigs and chickens was not transmitted Co human beings, that milk is milk. regardless of whence it comes or what happens to it on the way. We now know to a crr tainty that several diseases can Inc, and frequently are, carried by in- rected milk and that tuberculosis is often transmitted directly from tu- bercular COW to healthy child, hv milk. The bureau of animal indus try. department of agriculture. has on file hundreds of cases similar ID the one given below. yet some m.s- guided souls still object to having their pet COW inspected and tested and killed if found diseased
 "The report, as rubIjshod in r"- cent bulletin of the department oI agriculture. follows:
 Paris. IIl.-The res dents of ed- gar county are greatly aroused osar an epidemic of tuberculosis waIrn has recently occurred in a family .n this vicinity resulting from the H-e of milk from d Jubcrcular COW t.r- merlv owned by a farmer. Robert Goben. His entire nerd was tuhrr cuIfn tested by 8 federal yelertmar- ian two years ago. One COW reacted to the test and was tagged. branded and placed under quarantine by 'tr federal official untl such time as she could be killed Because she was in good flesh and appareu'h healthy. Gobeu claimed she did mo- have tuberculosis, and it is s"d boastcd that he would he glad tr have a whole herd just like her. Su he removed the government tag and 
 gave the COW to his rarm hand. Rob- ert Kelly. in lieu of money owed Mir. Kelly. Kelly stated ..at he took the COW tO his home ..- spring During the following June one uf his girls. live years old. complained of a pain in her back. rr. Martin. local physician, Was called and pronounced the case one ul ,ubercu- losis. Since then. -four other calld- ren in the family have developed ,hc disease. These children range from 8 to 9 years in age. All have en- larged glands. One is m a scrlous condition as the spine is affected. The COW was killed, and the post mortem examination made by pr. Granigen. bureau inspector, assist ed by Dr. J. w. Martin. t.e attend ing physician of tDe Kelly family. There was positive proof that the COW was in an advanced stage oI tuberculosis. There are seven child ren in the Kelly family and all but two have tuberculosis All were healthy before Goben gave Kelly the COW. One girl, 11@ years old, does not drink milk and she seems to be perfectly healthy. This is also true of the six months old baby which has received no cCTs' milk, It is understood that the states attorney is to prosecute Goben on a criminal charge.'"