ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IX 



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Cities 



Popu- 

 lation 



Inspectors 



Boone 



Burlington ... 

 Cedar Rapids 



Clinton 



Council Bluffs 



Davenport 



Dea Moines ... 



Dubuque 



Fort Dodge ... 



Keokuk 



Iowa City 



Mason City ... 

 Marshalltown 



Muscatine 



Otturawa 



Sioux City ... 

 Waterloo 



10,347! 

 25,741 ' 

 32,811 

 25,577: 

 29,292 

 43,028 

 86,368 

 38,494 

 15,543 

 14,00S: 

 10,091 

 11.230 

 14,000 

 16,178 

 22,012 

 47.848 

 26.693 



M. E. Flynn 



Phil Pray 



A. A. Sutton 



Peter Smith 



II. J. High 



J. Howard Sasseen 



Dr. F. J. Kennedy 



D. C. Benjamin 



Arthur J. Anderson 



J. A. Turner 



Dr. C. J. Hackett 



E. C. Pape 



TUBERCULOSIS IN THE DAIRY COW. 



Bovine tuberculosis and its relation as a causative factor in hu- 

 man tuberculosis, is a subject that has engaged the earnest atten- 

 tion of the people, particularly of the cities, as it relates to the 

 city milk supply, and ordinances intended to exclude the milk of 

 tubercular cows were passed by many of the municipal authorities. 

 These ordinances being submitted to the supreme court were ad- 

 judged unconstitutional. It would seem that it is to say the least, 

 unwise for cities to undertake to make laws on this subject until 

 after the state has first made a move in this direction, as it is a 

 question of too large magnitude to be handled by any city, county, 

 or possibly even the state, until after the federal government has 

 taken definite action. 



I also believe that there is a tendency to exaggerate the danger 

 to human life from this cause. The statement is often made that 

 cows ''rotten with tuberculosis from lungs to liver" are giving 

 milk, when any practical dairyman knows that a cow in this con- 

 dition gives no milk. If the slaughter of the cow not passing the 

 tuberc^line test is to be insisted upon as a public health measure, 

 then the public should bear at least a share of the financial loss in- 

 curred thereby, as now practiced in some of our sister states, and 

 if the dairy cow, why not all other cattle, as tuberculosis is an in- 

 fectious disease and your cow would be in constant danger of con- 

 tracting the disease from her brother, the steer. 



All that the dairyman asks is a square deal. Why should he be 

 required to submit his herd to the tuberculine test and suffer the 



