TUBERCULOSIS GERMS IN MILK
Tuberculosis Germs in Milk THAT TUBERCULOSIS OF CATTLE is transmissible to human beings is the conclusion reached by Dr. Mazyck P. Ravenel, after years of investigation. Dr. Ravenel jg the...
...The use of meat is not so dangerous...
...Those who persist in wishing to sell the meat, and especially the milk of tuberculous animals to be consumed by unsuspecting children, are trifling with human life...
...They have denounced the perfidy of their own party...
...If only one person in every ten thousand contracts the disease from cattle, it is sufficient cause to demand that every precaution be taken by the public...
...Experimental evidence," says Dr...
...He responds tardily with an offer of patronage...
...Taft thus affronts has monopolized that organization's conscience as the Aldrich-Cannon combination has monopolized its tyranny and greed...
...Does he regard Republicans as men of principle...
...It has sought justice...
...Spoils did not cause it to rebel...
...Spoils will not lure it to surrender...
...Even where steaks or roasts are eaten rare the danger is slight, because the surface of such a piece of meat is cooked sufficiently to destroy the life of the germ, even if it should have become soiled in the way described above...
...Just what portion of the one hundred and fifty thousand people who die in the United States each year from tuberculosis contract the disease directly or indirectly from cattle no one is in a position to know accurately, nor does it seem to be a matter of great importance...
...Ravenel jg the distinguished bacteriologist at the University of Wisconsin...
...It is the duty of health officers to protect communities against the sale of such products, and it is not only the duty, but also a plain matter of self-protection on the part of the consumer to see that he gets meat and milk only from healthy animals...
...The fact that these deaths, so far, have occurred in children makes it all the more pitiable and important...
...They have defied plutocracy and privilege...
...However, in America, a comparatively small quantity of meat is eaten raw...
...No other President has thus revealed his own political cynicism by the estimate that he placed upon his fellows...
...A Fatal Letter Editorial in the New York World IS PRESIDENT TAFT a man of principle...
...The evidence given above proves conclusively that bovine tuberculosis can be transmitted from cattle to man, and actually causes a considerable number of deaths in the human race...
...If he ever suspected that the revolt in his party had reasonable moral and intellectual justification there is nothing in the Norton letter to show it...
...Speaking for millions of people, the insurgents have insisted upon the recognition of certain ideas or rights...
...The chief danger seems to come from carelessness on the part of the butcher, who may use a knife for cutting through tuberculous organs or tissues and then employ the same knife for cutting off a steak or a roast, thus contaminating the surface...
...He has excused it, and now with spoils in hand he suggests forgetfulness and re-union...
...Ravenel, "shows that milk is the medium by which the disease is most often transmitted...
...He reluctantly entices them with office...
...In a lecent article in Farm and Fireside, he tells about the discoveries made by scientists as to the nature of tuberculosis germs of cattle and of man...
...It has not sought plunder...
...The element of the Republican party which Mr...
...The history of the Republic may be searched in vain for a parallel to these utterances...
...Tuberculosis is a disease which affects internal organs, rather than the muscular tissue, which is the part of the animal most eaten...
Vol. 2 • October 1910 • No. 41
