The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-11
IDR. CREWE HONORED
BY VETERINARIANS
| FOR LONG SERVICE
More Than so Animal Special
lists Gather in City For
Annual Meeting

| More than SO veterinarians from
throughout the state assembled at
the World War Memorial building
here Monday afternoon for the 3Oth
annual meeting of the North Dakota
Veterinary association.
The organization this year is hon.
oring DR.. w. F. Crewe, executive Of
ficer of the state livestock sanitary
board. in recognition of the Is years
Of his service to the livestock board.
The program opened at 80 o'clock
and will continue through Tuesday,
with several speeches scheduled.
The veterinarians and friends of
DR.. Crewe will attend a banquet at
6.15 o'clock this evening in the Ter
race Gardens at the Patterson hotel
The speaking program will be in
formal.
Monday afternoon speakers were
DR.. Crewe, whose subject was "A
Brief History of Livestock Sanitary
Control Work in North Dakota" and
DR.. L. Van Els, professor of animal
pathology at the University of Ne
braska, Lincoln. who gave Remarks
on Certain Mineral Deficiencies"
Three Lectures Tuesday
Three lectures Tuesday morning
will be as follows: Comparative
Medicine - Veterinary Service VS..
Public Health Service" DR.. R. w.
Allen, North Dakota state health de-
partment; Swine Disease Control"
DR.. j. B. Hollenbeck, U. S. Bureau of
Animal Husbandry, Columbus, O.;
and "The Fulfillment of Our Bovine
tuberculosis Program" Drs. Crewe
and H. H. Cohenour.
The meeting will close Tuesday aft
ernoon with business session and
election of officers. Present officers
are DR.. E. v. Lagerberg, Tioga. pres
1dent; DR.. w. D. Odou. Hettinger,
vice president; and DR.. Lee M. Rode
rick, North Dakota Agricultural COL
lege, secretary treasurer.
Among out-of-state men who had
arrived Monday forenoon to honor
DR.. Crewe at the meeting were DR..
G. H. Hays, U. S. Bureau of Animal
Industry, Pierre, S. D.; DR.. r. E. Rob-
inson, South Dakota state veterinar-
ian, Pierre, and DR.. w. j. Butler,
Montana state veterinarian, Helena.
| HardShipS and risks which faced
the pioneer veterinarian were de-
scribed Monday afternoon by DR..
CreWe.
First Law in 1887
| The first law pertaining to the
control of contagious and infectious
diseases of livestock under veterinary
supervision was passed by the terri
torial assembly of 1887, said DR..
Crewe. Prior to this the work was
handled by the board of health under
the supervision of a medical doctor.
Provision was made for the appoint
ment of not more than five deputies.
| The first veterinary surgeon for
the territory was DR.. c. John Alloway
of Grand Forks, who took office
March %, 1887.
Not only did DR.. Alloway contend
with the long winters, sudden blind
ing storms, and lack of accommoda-
tons to perform his duties, but his
life was threatened by those who
were unwilling to submit their dis
eaSed horses to destruction.
DR.. Crewe's paper quoted from Dr.
Alloways report: 1.-THE long Dakota
winter, with it's often low tempera-
ture, sudden binding storms, oblit-
Grating landmarks and roads in the
snow and lack of hotel accommoda-
tons in many places, render the
! faithful performance OF sanitary
duties not unattended with risk,
hardship and discomfort.
ION more than one occasion, when
owners of diseased horses were un-
willing to submit to their destruc-
ton, the official of this department
has been threatened, which some
times necesSitated the work being
done not only under adverse circum-
stances but where even life itself was
! in danger"
The livestock of Dakota was In
more healthy condition than that of
any state or territory in the Union,
according to DR.. Alloway's report.
Langdon Was Veterinarian
| DR.. w. G. Langdon was appointed
as the first state veterinarian in
North Dakota in 1890. and was fol-
lowed by DR.. I. Turoot of Minot in
1892.
In 1907 the law was changed to
provide for livestock sanitary board,
and DR.. Crewe was appointed execu-
tive officer of the livestock sanitary
board.
Briefly reviewing each of the chief
veterinarians reports, DR.. Crewe
showed what diseases were prevalent
at the various periods and what was
done to improve conditions.
The first reference to cattle Scab-
bies, DR.. Crewe said, occurred in 1903,
stockmen stating that the loss in
some herds reached so per cent. With
no funds available that could be used
! for the purpose of graduating this
disease, a proclamation was issued
placing a quarantine where cattle
| scabbies was known to exist. Little
benefit was derived from dipping as
no systematic procedure was adopted.
In conjunction with the U. S. bu-
reau of animal industry system was
established, an appropriation being
made for dipping tanks and dipping
material in the unorganized counties.
It was six years before the Quaran-
tine was raised.
Proclamation in 1906
In 1906 owing to the number of
tuberculous animals found, pro-
clamation was issued by the governor
requiring all dairying and breeding
cattle be subjected to the tuberculin
test before being admitted, DR.. Crewe'
! stated.
: It was then that the district vet
erinarian system was discontinued
with DR.. L. Van Els, then chief vet
erinarian, stating that under the
system communicable diseases were
on the increase, especially CHAMBERS.