The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-03

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Prihdle said that Thursday ey.
mendation calls for an expenditure
Of $1,12o. 900. and am informed
ed that the Livestock Sanitary
Board has divided the $50o,0000o
annually, in their budget for sub
mission, in the following manner:
$421, 10000 for indemnity purposes
$64 100000 for operating expenses
and S25 100000 as q contingent fund.
II the amounts recommended are
appropriated 1861, 10000 would a.
valuable for indemnity during the
next two years for the removal OF
diseased animals from Minnesota
herds at rate that will mean a
rapid reduction of the disease. be-
ueve you will agree that b larger
appropriation is necessary in con-
Quoting this work to a successful ter
minatfon. Especially in view of he
them the Information that there are,
In Minnesota, Is counties with 701,-
005 cattle which have an! average of
$3.50 percent infection; 81 counties
with I,406,059 cattle which hayt an
average of 4,51-percent infection;
20 counties with 884,704 cattle which
have an average Of 2.2S percent in
lection; and s counties with $3.50
cattle which have an average of
$50 percent infection.
Last year, as the result of all
activities, in round numbers there
were only $500 reactors removed
from Minnesota herds, which should
make it obvious to every one that
hn roVoaxzaA ,.oy1 {IIx.
otherwise infection of exposed ami
mails will keep pace with the re
movals. l am informed that Wiscon
sin breeders will ask for 81 ,000, 900,
90 year for the control of this
Before concluding permit me to
lay aside the financial gains that
will accrue from project of this
kind, and briefly take UP the public
health side OF the question, which.
after all, is the outstanding obliga-
ton that must be seriously con 4
sidered by every commonwealth.
Much controversy has arisen as
to the communicability of tnbercul-
osis from animals to man.. After
Kock had thrown doubt on its pro-
tuberculosis, in 1891. the British
Government appointed Royal
Commission to inquire into the re
lationship Of human and animal
tuberculosis. In the second interim
report of the Commission, issued in
1907, the conclusions arrived at
were-That there seems to be no
valid rtason for doubling the opinion
never seriously doubted before 1901,
that human and bovine bacillus be-
long to the same family. On their
views and subsequent investiga-
tons of others, the answer to the
question-Can the bovine bacillus
affect mans obviously in the af-
tirmative. 4
"The same answer must also be
given to those who hold the theory
that human and bovine tubercle
bacilli are different in kind, since
the bovine kind are found as the
casual agents Of many fatal cases
of human tuberculosis.
Our field experience, after five
years of intensive work, nationwide
In scope, leads to two inevitable
conclusions for consideration Of
those holding views for or against
the belief that the Bovine bacilli
does or does not infect mankind.
Fitst-that on farms where the ma
jority of the cattle are diseased, the
ed raw milk will, on post rnottem
reveal as high as one hundred per-
cent infection. and, likewise, IL
there small children on the premises
having access to this same raw cows
milk, many Will show external evil
dences Of tuberculosis in the way
Of enlarged glands. On these I'm
fortunate farms, where the disease
is running rampant in all speciae, 1t
appears rightly named as the Great
white Plague, from both human
health and financial standpoint.
"Second-If the cow is not the
best and greatest mother in propa-
eating virulent tubercie bacillus
man beings, then it must be true
that the So called different types Of
tubercle bacill travel together
and CO. operate splendidIy Ia bring
ing about a simultaneous infection
of the human and animal species on
such farms. V ...... ~.
There are two angles then from
which to view this subject OF tuber-
culosis-the economic and the pub
lie health, and for these reasons It
is my conviction that everyone.
whether interested in livestock d.
rectly or not, should be In favor OF
uoSluCu lfCT OhSC III JuO dppEOpIlde
tons. 1t cannot be accomplished
without your aid, and, in placing
this subject before you today it Is
with the hope that you livestock
breeders who are vitality concerned
in financial way will do some ser
ious thinking and give those engaged
in controlling animal diseases your
hearty support in this great cam
paign that Is ahead Of us.
Among those who took mart in the
discussion following DR.. Fritz
speech were: DIR. ]. r. Pooley Of
Mankato. federal vetinarian3
T. B. Taylor of Mapleton; DR.. G.
G. Pratt, DIT. M. b. Wood, and Dr..
w, C. Cullen of Mankato; H. L.
Sohre Of Good Thunder: C. H. G..
Hazel. Amboy; William Schultz, A.
I. Veigel and w. e. Olson of this
city. All Of these gentlemen were Ia
favor Of pushing the area plan OF |
extermination Of tuberculosis IN |
livestock; |