Report of the Joint Committee on Tuberculin Test, 1911 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...page 3651.) In the city of New York, Dec. 2 and 3, 1910, a milk conference was held under the auspices of the New York milk committee. This conference was composed of scientists, producers, dealers, health officials of important cities. Doth in the United States and Canada. It was attended by Dr. W. A. Evans, commissioner of health of the city of Chicago, who delivered an address before the conference. This conference on Friday, December 2d, overwhelmingly defeated a resolution urging the government that it prohibit the sale of cows which had reacted to the tuberculin test. Upon Saturday, December 3d, this conference defeated a resolution to the effect that it be the sense of the conference that "all milk which does not conic from tuberculin tested cows, kept under conditions which satisfy the highest medical and sanitary standards, should be pasteurized." (Record, page 3657.) Dr. James Warren Vanderslice, president of the milk commission of the Chicago Medical Society, testifying before our committee, said: "What I want to say is this: It is altogether adventitious, hut I would like to say that I believe that if we could pass a dairy law requiring all skim milk to be thoroughly pasteurized--not commercial pasteurization; T am talking about real pasteurization--at the creamery, that in five years tuberculosis will be extinct in the State of Illinois if we pass a law against the bringing into the State of cattle that have not passed the tuberculin test. I mean protect the dairy herds by putting a fence around the State. I didn't refer to any milk shipped for market. 1 simply refer to the milk taken back to the farm and fed to the calves and hogs. If that is done, in my judgment, it would absolutely weed out tuberculosis in the State in five ye...