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rie Mcilenry MMuM PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY »Y } F. a. SCHREINER. OfBce tn Buk Balldlai. Tatophoat, Ho. IT* during 1900, from tuberculosis all causes, and include the number under one year and under five years of age: Total Under 1 to S 1 Year Years TIRMS OP •UMORIPTtONl One year tlJt tlx month*. 75 eta. Three months. Mote Thur«day, January a6, 1911. the mmmwvmmm AND RECQMENDATMNS BY COURT- TEE Of THE COMOTTEE APPOINTED BY LAST LEGISLATURE TO Of. VESTIG ATE THE TUBERCULIN TEST UPOH DAIRY CATTLE. The abstract of findings and recom­ mendations by committee of the com­ mittee appointed by the two houses of the last legislature to investigate the reliability, efficiency and necessity of adopting the tuberculin test upon dairy cattle in the state of Illinois, also the pasteurization of milk, will be of i<v terest to our dairymen. This commit­ tee made a report to the legislature on Wednesday of last week, Jan. 18. Bills will be introduced in the legis­ lature this week to carry out the rec­ ommendations of this committee and it is needless to say that the whole sub­ ject from the dairymen's standpoint will be violently opposed by some of the leading Chicago newspapers, and therefore it will be to the interest of the dairymen of northern Illinois that the widest publicity possible be given to the actual report: From all of the evidence in this case, your committee must report that all cases of tuberculosis in cattle are not necessarily the existence of the disease of tuberculosis, if the evidence of the medical world is to be relied upon, as we gather generally from all the evi- doncc presented before us. That in the human race over eighty per cent of all human beings at some time during their life are infected and have tubercle bacillus in their system, and yet the larger portion of the human race throw it off and die from other diseases. And likwise, as it is testified to by many witnesses and the inference drawn by others, that in the cattle kind nearly all animals at some time during their life take into their system tubercle bacilli and the foci of infection formed, at which times they will react to the tuberculin test, yet over ninety per cent of all cattle-so in­ fected throw off the infection, overcome the danger, and live out their allotted time and die of other diseases. Dur­ ing which time of infection among cattle they are not throwing off tubercle bacilli, either through the milk or the excreta, and are not dangerous to themselves or to others. Your committee is compelled, by all of this evidence, to find that there are two phases of tuberculosis among ani­ mals: First: The conditions under which the animal may be inoculated, infected and have within its system tubercle bacilli, a lodgement of the cause of the disease, and among which animals it is overcome, the tubercle bacilli becoming caseated and encysted and the lesions, so-called cured. Sec­ ond: The stage where the infection becomes seated and the animal is not able to overcome it, and it develops in­ to what may be known as the disease of tuberculosis. Your committee find that the tuber­ culin test in the hands of a skillful veterinarian, having practical knowl­ edge of cattle and having a practical acquaintance with and understanding uf the particular herd and, animal diseased, is a fairly good diagnostic agent to determine the existence of tubercle bacilli and infection in cattle; and that the tuberculin test is a fairly good diagnostic agent to determine the existence of tuberculosis, the disease, in cattle, during its earlier stages, but that it is not a good diag­ nostic agent to determine the existence of the disease, tuberculosis, in ita latter stages or generalized tuberculosis. Your committee further find that the tuberculin test, as a diagnostic agent, is easily negatived and its re­ sults frustrated by the u , of anti­ pyretics and by the use of febrifuge, and that by many practical means and measures the perfect and proper result of the injection of tuberculin as a diag­ nostic agent may be overcome. Your committee further find that the use of tuberculin, as a diagnostic agent to discover tuberculosis in animals, is rendered practically useless after an animal has been injected with the tuberculin at two or three different times. In the city of New York two hundred and seventy children died of tubercu- osis of all causes in one year. Deduct the one hundred and sixty-six that died from pulmonary tuberculosis and it eaves one hundred and four dying from other causes than pulmonary tubercu­ losis. Applying to the number the rule laid down by Ravenel, Park, Adami and tha radical rule established by the high percentages found in Great Britain and Germany, then it is dem­ onstrated that altogether in the city of New York, twenty-six children un­ der the age of five years have died, during one year, of bovine infection out of the total number of tuberculous deaths, 10,157. Take the figures from the vital sta­ tistics of the city of Chicago for the year 1906, being the last year for which full tabulated figures are furnished your committee, and the total number of deaths in the city of Chicago during 1906, were 29,048. Total number from tuberculosis, all causes, 3,837. We furnish the following table of deaths, Articular... 16 Cutaneous 4 General.... 81 Glandular . 16 Laryngeal.. SO Meningeal, 168 (Hhw forms.... SI v -- Total deaths 3887 Total .3887 102 149 number of deaths under five years, 251. Deduct those dying from pulmonary tuberculosis, 90, and those dyiny from meningeal, 95, of which all of the records in the scientific world admit are not from the bovine cause, u « total of 185 from 251 leaving 66 cases of children under five years of age that died from tuberculo­ sis, except pulmonary andmeningeal, during 1906. Applying to this number the rule of percentages laid down by Ravens!, Park-, Adami, and the radical figures as based upon the results of the British Royal commission and we find that in the city of Chicago, during 1906, sixteen and one-half children un­ der five yeaca of age died of tubercu­ losis, and we may say, probably caused by the bovine infection through the milk, out of the total number of deaths in that city from tuberculosis, 3,837, and deaths of all kinds, 29,048. Should the lower percentages of ab­ dominal and intestinal tuberculosis that prevail in the United States over Great Britain and the continent again divide this death rate in the city of Chicago, once or twice (which is likely) it would seem that the public has been greatly and unnecessarily alarmed by bovine infection through the milk. (Bovaird) "If, however, we take the frequency of the two types of tubercu­ losis in the total number of sick chil­ dren treated, we see that, on the aver­ age, abdominal tuberculosis is fifteen times as frequent in Great Britain as in this country, the figures being 3.25 per cent of the total number treated in Great Britain and 0.22 per cent in the United States. These figures surely demonstrate beyond doubt that ab­ dominal tuberculosis is many times more frequent among children in Great Britain than among those in the United States." In the city of Chicago the percent­ ages of deaths of children, under five years of, age, to all mortality has gone down from 52.61 in 1857 to 30.27 in 1909, and of children under five years of age, the death rate .per thousand of total population in the city of Chicago has gone from 14.50 in 1857 to 4.21 in 1909. The records show that in the city of Chicago in 1906, 913 children, under five years of age, died of various gen­ eral diseases, other than those herein­ after stated; 2384 children, under five years of age, died of gastro enteritis, dysentery and diarrhea, the larger number of whom were under one year of age; 1557 children, under five years of age, died of pneumonia; 802 children died of cerebro meningitis and its kindred diseases; various other num­ bers by various scattered diseases, and sixteen and one-half children from tuberculosis of the bovine infection. Tables of vital statistics in thirty- four citiefe of over five thousand popu­ lation in the state of Illinois have a bearing upon this question, compared with the vital statistics of the same time in the city of Chicago (record page 3731) including the year 1907. Deaths Tuberculosis Infantile all forms Enteritis 4,030 2.4US Total Chicago 32,113 34 cities, Hi., over 5000 pop­ ulation 11,049 These tables show 1,208 470 that in thirty- four cities in the state of Illinois hav­ ing over a population of five thousand each, not including Chicago, in 1907, the total number of deaths was 34\ per­ cent of the total number of deaths in the city of Chicago. The total num­ ber of deaths from tuberculosis in ail forms in the thirty-four cities outside of Chicago was only 30 per cent of the total number of deaths from tubercu­ losis of all forms in the city of Chicago, In other words, tuberculosis of all forms was 15 per cent higher in the city of Chicago than in the cities out­ side, taking the total number of deaths as a basis in the thirty-four cities out­ side of Chicago, while the total death rate was 34J per cent of the total num­ ber of deaths in the city of Chicago. Deaths from infantile enteritis in the thirty-four cities outside of Chicago was only 19 per cent of the number of deaths from the same cause in the city of Chicago during the same time. In other words, infantile enteritis in the city of Chicago was 83 per cent higher compared with the total death rate to d e a t h s f r o m t h e s a m e c a u s e i q t h e thirty-four cities outside of Chicago during 1907. To be more explicit we have a total death rate in the city of Chicago and in thirty-four cities out­ side. It is shown by these figures that, based upon the total death rule, tuberculosis prevails in the city of Chi* cago 15 per cent higher than it pre­ vails in other parts of the state. These tables show that- infantile enteritis prevails in the city of Chicago 83 per cent higher than It prevails in other parts of the state. The population of the city of Chica­ go consumes leas than four-fifths of a pint of milk per capita per day. It would require no proof or argument probably to establish that milk was consumed much more extensively in the smaller cities than in the city of Chicago. If milk infection was a mov­ ing cause of tuberculosis in any appre­ ciable degree, the records would doubt- les^ndicate a higher death rate from tuberculosis outside of Chicago than it indicates in the city. The records do not so show. The records do show a very high death rate in the city of Chicago and almost double that in the country from infantile enteritis not connected in any way with tubercu­ losis. And if milk is the cause of this (CONTINUED ON LAST PAGE.) intention!4 It is to your interest as well as ours that you buy your household necessities at the lowest possible prices. NOW is the time you especially need Buckwheat Flour, Syr­ up, canned Fruits and Vegetables, and also dried Fruit. 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