The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-11

~ A1obS from BIZ. DO
hart's article to the Courier:
an regard to the transmission Of
bovine tuberculosis from the bovine
animal to the human race-to our
knowledge no such thing has ever
b placed on record, and is abso-
Iutely absurd from that point Of
] view"
To whose knowledge? Certainly
not from sources of scientific re-
search.
| have quoted enough already from
Doctor Schroeder's address to con-
vince any fair minded person regard
ing the possible danger Of butter as
a possible carrier of disease germs.
but want to add one more expres-
sion from this widely known expert.
l hope friend Bohart will read the
following two or three times, or until
he gets it by heart:
1T is plainly possible that butter
made from the milk of a tuberculosis
cow may be shipped .-compIetely
around the world and thereafter eause
tuberculosis in the child that eats It.
No Il can doubt this who knows that
butter infected with tubercle bacilli
a hundred or nor days after it was
made, caused tuberculosis in hogs TO
which it was fed in small quantities"
1t is also possible that butter in.
fected with tubercle bacilli. or with
typhoid bacilli from the body of an
unsUspecting carrier and dissemination
may be. made in any state Of the
United States and shipped to a dozen
r nor states and serve as the cause
for tuberculosis or typhoid fever in
every state it reaches, though hun
dreds or thousands of miles separate
the different states.
THE conclusion the facts support
| believe may be stated as follows:
70 secure a safe butter supply re-
qulres that we should add to the wide
ly practiced pasteurizatiOn of milk
distributed to the consumer as milk.
the pasteurization of all cream used
to make butter. 1t is the only avail
able, economically reasonable expedi-
ent that has been proved over and
oTer again to afford protection against
the dangers that often lie hidden in.
raw milk and its products"
could go on indefinitely, quoting
from authorities at hand regarding
the need of pasteurization and the
practical value of it from the stand
point Of the dairyman and creamery
man. knowledge that all dairy pro
ducts are pasteurized or made from
~pasteurized materials will add i'm
mensely to their sale.
All that / have quoted so far, TT
lates to the danger attending the use
OF butter made from u~npasteurized
milk or cream. But it has been lust
as cOnclusively proved that disease
germs may exist in ice cream to lust
the same extent, when made from
unpasteurized materials. Several
months ago a letter came to this Of
flee from enc of the Boards of Health
fof an Eastern state, calling our at.
tention to the fact that cases Of in
tantile paralysis had been traced to
Ice cream eaten by the victims. The
investigation had shown beyond doubt
that the germs came in the unpas-
teurized cream used in making the
Ice cream and that flies were respon.
sIble for the germs; and further. that
the trouble originated at the place
where the milk was drawn from the
cow. / made reference to this in NV
talk at Bozeman, and said that / did
not doubt it. For if flies are carriers
Ct disease germs, / had seen a good
opportunity for the development Of
an outbreak of infectious disease in
many places where / had been a wit.
ness to the milking done on the
farms. At the Bozeman meeting T
told of n place where / found a
woman doing the milking. She used
a piece of cheese cloth over the ton
Of the can as a strainer. After the
first milk had been poured into the
%strainer cloth, the flies gathered on
the wet surface. When the mixer
came with the next lot Of milk. she
did not stop to drive the flies away
but stopped the milk into the ~strainer
catching many of the flies that were
there. When / first looked At the
strainer cloth it was black with flies
unable to get away because their
wings and legs we're stuck to their
bodies, and each time the process was
repeated more flies were added to the
accumulation.
No law and ne system Of inspection
was nv1x kA1x.s~M& ~.& &A-A