MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 165 



was obtained through the guinea pig test, 52 re-acted out of 100, and 26 of them 

 were so badly affected by tuberculosis that they had to be tanked for phosphate. 



"One of the excellent outcomes of this work has been the voluntary requests 

 for the testing of herds by men whom the milk inspector has visited. The applica- 

 tions for tests have not all been voluntary, but have been due largely to the 

 presentation of facts to the owners by the milk inspector. In one of the herds 

 recently picked up by Mr. Marshall, the whole herd of 21 cows re-acted. 



"The above are some of the facts that I will present to the people of the City 

 of Lawrence, Mass., on Monday evening next." 



The herd referred to having 21 cows which re-acted to the test I 

 referred to this morning. That herd we had a certificate from a veter- 

 inarian stating that the cattle were all in good condition. In the early 

 part of the same year, after we had tested a number of cattle from the 

 producers and reported the fact to the producers as well as to the dis- 

 tributers, we came to the Big Elm Dairy Co., and we tested a sample of 

 milk from them in the usual way by injecting the sample into guinea 

 pigs, using two pigs, the animals both re-acting. I served upon them 

 a notice requiring them to have their producers submit their cattle to the 

 State tubercular test under the auspices of the State who were then mak- 

 ing tubercular tests. They objected to my decision and appealed to the 

 Commissioner of Public Safety. I said at that time in my letter, quoted 

 under date of July 8th, 1910, to the Big Elm Dairy Co. : 



"Gentlemen : 



Those of your producers who do not comply with my direction in the matter of 

 a State tubercular test will have their milk excluded from Rochester after 

 January , 1910." 



"They made an appeal : 



(Reading from letter on page 470 of letter book, dated June 28, 1910, from 

 Health Officer Goler to the Commissioner of Public Safety.) 

 "Sir: 



"At 9:30 this morning I received a telephonic notice from Mr. Hughes that 

 the hearing in the matter of the Big Elm Dairy Company had been postponed 

 from the date set by you, Wednesday, to Friday, and perhaps next week. 



"Shortly after the Big Elm Dairy Company was found selling milk from 

 tuberculous cattle I exhibited to you and to His Honor the Mayor, the animal 

 which was infected from its milk. 



"My object in writing this letter is that you may know that I believe the Big 

 Elm Dairy Company is striving to gain time, and that in doing so it may still 

 further infect the children of Rochester with tuberculosis, and that it is further 

 seeking to gain time so that its producers with tuberculous cattle may swap cattle 

 or get rid of them, and thus help to bring any State test that may be made into 

 ill repute. 



"I object to the delay in the hearing in this matter because it will work 

 further harm in raising the question among men whose cattle are found tuberculous 

 by the tests we are making; as to whether they should not resort to the same 



