164 MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 



Q. In regard to the matter of tubercular inspections ; I understood 

 you to say that you were stopped by the milk dealers ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Tell us how they stopped it ? 



A. I would rather tell you from the record and submit the letters 

 to you. 



Q. You have the letters, a complete record of that blocking? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. That is available so you can bring it in on short notice ? 



A. I don't know how short. I can bring it in to you to-morrow. 



Q. We had before us the matter of the big dealers compelling you 

 to discontinue the tubercular test. I understood you to testify that you 

 could show how they did it by your records. Are you ready to proceed 

 with that ? Give us the history of it. 



A. I could not do that because I don't know it. In giving you what 

 I have, I am dealing with one company; there were two companies, but 

 one company was just as bad as the other. 



Q. Well, you discontinued the tubercular test because you were 

 compelled to? 



A. Yes. 



Q. You know what compelled you to? 



A. I am ready to tell you. 



Q. That is what we want to know. 



A. There is no question about the power of the Health Officer. 

 That has been passed upon by more than one corporation counsel. In 

 the latter part of the year 19(39, down to the fore part of 1910, we began 

 to test out all the herds; tried to test all the herds supplying Rochester 

 with milk by what was known as the physiological test, using guinea pigs. 

 We had then 1909 we had up to the time we discontinued our tests, 

 tested the supply of 41 retailers and offered by 28 producers. Seven 

 hundred and fifty-seven cattle were tested, and 671 actually were tested 

 through the efforts of the Chief Milk Inspector. Two hundred because 

 the owners .asked for the test. And out of the total number tested, 210 

 cattle were killed. Thus, out of approximately 8,000 cattle supplying 

 Rochester with milk, more than 20 per cent, of them were tested as the 

 result of this work, and as a result of the test, approximately 12 per cent, 

 re-acted and were killed. At that time Mr. Owen was Commissioner of 

 Public Safety and under date of April 9, 1910, I made a report to him. 

 I said in that letter : 



"We have prosecuted our preliminary work against tuberculosis in milch cattle 

 for a little more than a year. Of the 8,000 cows from 700 farms we have had 

 tested more than 1,000 cows, and had 124 killed. In one herd where the evidence 



