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184 APPENDIX. If cows capable of spreading tuberculosis, or those which have tuberculosis, are kept with sound cattle, a form of cruelty to animals is practiced, for none should knowingly expose cattle to a contagious or infectious disease. The fact that the keeping of tuberculous cattle in a herd spreads disease is granted by all, some going so far as to say that the disease can not be eradicated; but it must be remembered that these same persons stoutly proclaim against the separation of tuberculous cattle. In so far as the spread of the disease is considered, every purpose is satisfied by separation of the infected cattle from the sound; for by so doing the disease is confined to those that already have it. But cattle are kept for tlie production of beef, milk, butter and cheese, and these are sold to the public. Moreover, the cattle have to be attended to by people who have every right to protection from a disease they may contract. That tuberculosis in cattle may be and has been transmitted to man is undoubtedly true, and every new observation but adds to the evidence, all going in the same direction. That there are and have been many cases of stable and milk infection in man that have never been recorded is also true. But that bovine tuberculosis is responsible for any considerable proportion of human tuberculosis is improbable. In 1895, Dr. S. Westray Battle reported at the Salisbury Health Conference that 4,000 North Carolinians died annually of consumption. If the history of these cases were to be had, 1 doubt not that by far the larger share could be traced back to the disease in other human beings with whom they had been in close association, or to common living rooms. This fact, if it be true, would teach that bovine tubei'culosis does not play an all important role in the annual death rate from consumption in man, and that there is no occasion for great excite ment as regards danger from tuberculous cattle. Still, the fact that people may contract the disease from stables and milk from a small proportion of the diseased cattle, and that some have, demands a recognition of the disease by the public. Every means that may be taken to suppress or prevent tuberculosis is a move in the right direction. While remembering that proper precautions insisted on and carried out among people will reduce the death rate of the decade following the next by 25 per cent, 50 per cent, or even 75 per cent, we may ask or, perhaps, compel the dairyman to sell milk from sound cows. But unless the public are ready to compensate in part for the desti'uction of values in cattle they should not compel him to destroy them. Only a small proportion of the milk from tuberculous cattle may be proved contaminated with disease germs, and when it is not contaminated, it is wholesome milk, and vendible as such. Destruction of the uses of
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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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Date | 1897-1898 |
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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. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1897-1898 |
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Volume Number | 7 |
Page Number | 184 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 184 APPENDIX. If cows capable of spreading tuberculosis, or those which have tuberculosis, are kept with sound cattle, a form of cruelty to animals is practiced, for none should knowingly expose cattle to a contagious or infectious disease. The fact that the keeping of tuberculous cattle in a herd spreads disease is granted by all, some going so far as to say that the disease can not be eradicated; but it must be remembered that these same persons stoutly proclaim against the separation of tuberculous cattle. In so far as the spread of the disease is considered, every purpose is satisfied by separation of the infected cattle from the sound; for by so doing the disease is confined to those that already have it. But cattle are kept for tlie production of beef, milk, butter and cheese, and these are sold to the public. Moreover, the cattle have to be attended to by people who have every right to protection from a disease they may contract. That tuberculosis in cattle may be and has been transmitted to man is undoubtedly true, and every new observation but adds to the evidence, all going in the same direction. That there are and have been many cases of stable and milk infection in man that have never been recorded is also true. But that bovine tuberculosis is responsible for any considerable proportion of human tuberculosis is improbable. In 1895, Dr. S. Westray Battle reported at the Salisbury Health Conference that 4,000 North Carolinians died annually of consumption. If the history of these cases were to be had, 1 doubt not that by far the larger share could be traced back to the disease in other human beings with whom they had been in close association, or to common living rooms. This fact, if it be true, would teach that bovine tubei'culosis does not play an all important role in the annual death rate from consumption in man, and that there is no occasion for great excite ment as regards danger from tuberculous cattle. Still, the fact that people may contract the disease from stables and milk from a small proportion of the diseased cattle, and that some have, demands a recognition of the disease by the public. Every means that may be taken to suppress or prevent tuberculosis is a move in the right direction. While remembering that proper precautions insisted on and carried out among people will reduce the death rate of the decade following the next by 25 per cent, 50 per cent, or even 75 per cent, we may ask or, perhaps, compel the dairyman to sell milk from sound cows. But unless the public are ready to compensate in part for the desti'uction of values in cattle they should not compel him to destroy them. Only a small proportion of the milk from tuberculous cattle may be proved contaminated with disease germs, and when it is not contaminated, it is wholesome milk, and vendible as such. Destruction of the uses of |
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Article Title | Bovine Tuberculosis |
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