Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-10-18
PURE MILK
Comfy Agent Publishes Another
Article on This Subject.

taken tne opportunity TO VlSlC the
Armour Packing Plant through the
courtesy of the federal inspectors for
tuberculosis, we came back realizing
more fully the necess ty of DEBORAH
having a milk ordinance which will
provide for an adequate supply of
pure milk for her citizens.
The entrance to Health Land, one
of the features of the show, was
guarded by a huge statue of the
dairy cow with this inscription--"l
am the foster mother of mank nd
Use my products freely and | will
build for you a nation that is power
full in body and BRAIN" Posters ev-
erywhere set forth the value of q
liberal supply of milk in the diet
of boys and girls.
The EXHIBITS i'm the machinery hal
tended to impress upon ones mind
the necessity of having all utensils
ab.oluteiy sterile and the import
ance that pasturization has in pre-
pairing milk products for human con-
sumption. The amount of dairy
products consumed in the small town
is no. of sufficient volume to always
make it practical TO have a PASTURE
ing plant. 1t is in these towns and
small cities where no such plant is
in operation that the utmost care
should be taken to see that the
animals producing this valuable food
product are free from disease.
In visiting the packing plant we
were fortunate in having the priv
ilege of examining eight carcasses
of animals that had been given the
federal test for tuberculosis and
found to be infected. The post NOR
tenn showed all of these animals to
be affected to greater or less ex-
tent and one could readily see how
the milk and everything pertaining
to the animal would be infectious.
Clinical data shows that tubercu-
losiS is one of our most dangerous
infections and until 1921 cause more
deaths in the United States than
any other one disease. 1t is no long
err a theory that Bovine (the type
of tuberculosis affecting cattle) tu-
berculosis is tranSmissible to the
human being, especially children. A
New York physician reports that
So per cent of the children of the
Foundling's hospital who die of tu-
berculosis, had this bovine infection.
These children were fed unprotected
cows milk; OnKs6 1-Sf,5i 1eI $ &c
the Children IN the Mothers. tqital
who died of tuberculosis showed the
bovine infection. These children were
fed on mothers milk. DR.. c. H.
Mayo states, Bovine tuberculosis is
very common in children from rural
districts. 1t comes in the form of
tuberculosis in the tonsils, glands of
the neck and especially in the glands
of the mesentry of the intestines."
A casualty report for 1919 in
United States shows approximately
one-tenth of all deaths were from
tuberculosis and approximately one
third of the children who died from
tuberculosis under the age Of five
years died of tuberculosis from bo-
vine infection. DR.. Stygall of Ind
annapolis stated in an address on
public control of tuberculosis before
the Mississippi Valley Conference a
Columbus, Ohio, 1921, that if mill
products were free from bovine ba
ella, there would be a reduction o.
fifteen thousand deaths from tuber
culoSis each year.
We have hundreds of actual in
stances where tuberculosis in chill
dren could be traced directly to tn
use of milk from tubercular infecte
COWS. 1t is due to these facts tina
the United Estates government ha
made it possible for all dairymen
have their herds tested at govern
ment expense and to receive rein
bursement for two-thirds of any los
which may incur. In order for tn
dairvmen furnishing milk to tn
city of DEBORAH to secure these SCI
vices and this reimbursement will
out cost to them, it is necessal
that the city council pass an ordn
ance prohibiting the sale of mi
from cows which have not passed II
federal inspection for tuberculos
during the past six or twelve month
Most of our dairymen have made on
= test of their herds some twel'
months ago. The timesis now
: hand when a retest should be mao
It seems unfair that our da.rym
should be asked to take this 10
; themselves.
= A recent letter from DR.. Thomps
of the Commission of Animal Heal'
=" states that the services.of the te
! eral inspectors are available, aft
y cities have passed such ordinanc
70 TO our dairymen and in the inter'
IL of the public health, it would SCI
that our city council could do no
ing less than pass such an ordinan