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TWELFTH BIENjNTIAL REPORT. 33 lu the face of these facts, what is our position? We know that tuberculosis exists in our dairy herds; we know that when tuberculosis exists in a herd, owing to the passage of the bacilli through the udder, and through the intestines and manure, which almost always contaminates the milk more or less, milk from such a herd is almost certain to contain tubercle germs. We know that infants, the largest consumers of milk, have intestinal tuberculosis more frequently than adults, and that the bacillus causing this disease is frequently of the bovine type. In short, we know that our neglect to exclude tuberculous cows from our herds is causing the death of many human beings, and yet we are doing nothing, literally nothing, to prove ourselves worthy the title of guardians of the public health. The tuberculin test is the only means of detecting tuberculosis before the products of the cow are likely to be infective, but we are not forcing the dairymen of the State to do what is to their own linancial interest to do—test their cattle and exclude the tuberculous animals. Tuberculosis is not over common in this State, except in the dairy herds, and is not as prevalent there as in many States, but it will steadily increase unless controlled. Moreover, if we admit its existence even, and the possihlliiy of its communication to the consumer of milk, we have no right to stand idly by and permit any human being to take that chance, no matter how small the chance may be. In my opinion, diseases of the udder and those conditions of milk included under the general term ^'filthy" are the most fruitful source of injurious effects upon the consumers of milk. All forms of garget, mammitis or other diseases resulting in pus and other intlammatory products entering the milk are unquestionably the source of much of the diarrlKoal tronl)les of infants resulting from the consumption of impure milk. Filth, manure from the cows and stables, which is the most abundant and conmion contaminating material of unclean milk, has not, in my opinion, been given its full share of responsibility for the high death rate from diarrhoeal diseases, so fatal to young children. Especially is this so in North Carolina. In short, tuberculosis, diseased udders and filth are the three main soui'ces of danger to the consumers of milk in this State. How are these conditions to be corrected? In the first place, clean milk is worth more than dirty milk, and it costs more to produce it. Are our people willing to pay for clean milk? I believe we are now paying a price—eight to ten cents a (piart—which entitles us to a fairly good quality of milk. If this is not enough to enable the producers to i)ut clean milk on the market, then you, the guardians of the public health, must educate the pulilic up to the point where it will pay for good milk. In the second place, few of our dairymen know sufficient of dairy science and practice to enable them, unassisted, to put clean milk on the market. The general supply of milk can be improved, but for
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
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Volume Number | 12 |
Page Number | 33 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | TWELFTH BIENjNTIAL REPORT. 33 lu the face of these facts, what is our position? We know that tuberculosis exists in our dairy herds; we know that when tuberculosis exists in a herd, owing to the passage of the bacilli through the udder, and through the intestines and manure, which almost always contaminates the milk more or less, milk from such a herd is almost certain to contain tubercle germs. We know that infants, the largest consumers of milk, have intestinal tuberculosis more frequently than adults, and that the bacillus causing this disease is frequently of the bovine type. In short, we know that our neglect to exclude tuberculous cows from our herds is causing the death of many human beings, and yet we are doing nothing, literally nothing, to prove ourselves worthy the title of guardians of the public health. The tuberculin test is the only means of detecting tuberculosis before the products of the cow are likely to be infective, but we are not forcing the dairymen of the State to do what is to their own linancial interest to do—test their cattle and exclude the tuberculous animals. Tuberculosis is not over common in this State, except in the dairy herds, and is not as prevalent there as in many States, but it will steadily increase unless controlled. Moreover, if we admit its existence even, and the possihlliiy of its communication to the consumer of milk, we have no right to stand idly by and permit any human being to take that chance, no matter how small the chance may be. In my opinion, diseases of the udder and those conditions of milk included under the general term ^'filthy" are the most fruitful source of injurious effects upon the consumers of milk. All forms of garget, mammitis or other diseases resulting in pus and other intlammatory products entering the milk are unquestionably the source of much of the diarrlKoal tronl)les of infants resulting from the consumption of impure milk. Filth, manure from the cows and stables, which is the most abundant and conmion contaminating material of unclean milk, has not, in my opinion, been given its full share of responsibility for the high death rate from diarrhoeal diseases, so fatal to young children. Especially is this so in North Carolina. In short, tuberculosis, diseased udders and filth are the three main soui'ces of danger to the consumers of milk in this State. How are these conditions to be corrected? In the first place, clean milk is worth more than dirty milk, and it costs more to produce it. Are our people willing to pay for clean milk? I believe we are now paying a price—eight to ten cents a (piart—which entitles us to a fairly good quality of milk. If this is not enough to enable the producers to i)ut clean milk on the market, then you, the guardians of the public health, must educate the pulilic up to the point where it will pay for good milk. In the second place, few of our dairymen know sufficient of dairy science and practice to enable them, unassisted, to put clean milk on the market. The general supply of milk can be improved, but for |
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