Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-02-16
F. S. WHITCHER
Barton, VT.
"The Farmers Store"

lessen tuberculosis among human be-
ings in any appreciate degree.
The American Review OF IuDercu-
losis, the authoritative organ OF tn
National tuberculosis asSOcla ton
does not think much Of slaughterlng
cattle as a preventative of the human
type of tuberculosis. The staff of
this magazine includes such experts
as Drs. Edward R. Baldwin and Law
renee Brown of Seranac Lake, and
DIR. Allen R. Krause of Baltimore IS
managing editor.
In a recent issue, DR.. Krause says,
in reference to efforts to stamp out
! tuberculosis through the milk supply,
that efforts in this direction have
heretofore been either only local, or
wasteful or inadequate, or based on
Interpretations of the results to be
obtained"
He does not think much of cattle
slaughter:
"Under present conditions, to meet
the situation, nothing can be more
wasteful, extravagant and unprOduc-
tive of real results than the slaugh-
ter of infected cattle"
In this. then, is the official conclu-
sion of the best informed board on
tuberculosis in the country, what sort
of stuff have our own experts been
feeding us during the past 15 or ~
years?"
If killing infected cattle is waste
full and unproductive of real results,
we have simply dumped millions of
dollars "down a well" a we'll so deep
and unknown that we haven't yet
touched the bottom.
Furthermore we are asked to keep
on dumping it down the same well,
and the same experts are now telling
the same old story about the danger
to the human race through infected
cattle, with just little more empha-
sis on the economic side, which means
that the state as rich benevolent
parent, should go on pouring out
money, not to prevent tuberculosis
but to "help out" the farmers with
tuberculous cows.
DIR. Krause says further:
money has been poured out, herds
have been depleted, evasion and trick
cry have been resortd to, animosity
and strife have been engendered, ano
tuberculous cattle are still as common
as can be-"
Many doctors have never seen {
case of tuberculosis in human beings
that could be traced to the bovine
type of bacilli. Such cases are very
rare, and when a doctor says M
knows of several such cases, the
chances are that his diagnosis woulC
not bear investigation.
DIR. Louis Cobbetto lecturer In
, pathology for Cambridge university
England says:
Among grown-up people fatal DO
, vine infections are, STATISTICAL!
speaking, almost negligible; among
: children over five years of age the!
| are so few as to make very little diff
: ference to the result"
AS to deaths under five years o.
age, caused by bovine tuberculosis
| DR.. Corbett says:
eff we may assume for the mOmen
: as very rough approximation, tina
all deaths from tuberculosis which
{ are caused by infection with bovine
, bacilli occur under five years of age
and that all which take place afte1
, this period are caused by infection
, with bacilli of human type, then VIZ
5 should conclude that One-seventh O.
, 33 per cent.-or At per cent of al
deaths at all ages is due to infection
: with bovine bacilli."
This distinguished student AM
r pathologist adds that the bovine typ
t of tuberculosis is more easily curet
! than the human type, and we Learn
! from his table that the common O
. lung type is very seldom caused b.
{ bovine infection.
: If these men are experts AM
J authorities, and no one would pre-
? sumo to say differently, what in tn
name Of reason, decency and SCUM
business, do the advocates of hal
million dollar appropriation mean b,
tellin~ us of the dangers of infection
to children, on which they have run.
the charges for the past two or tire
decades?