178 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



that the tuberculin test should be used judiciously to eradicate tuberculosis. 

 (Chief Bureau of Animal Industry.) 



No ; because the eradication of bovine tuberculosis is a necessary sanitary 

 measure. (Surgeon General U. S. Army.) 



It would. (Surgeon General U. S. Navy.) 



If properly performed pasteurization would remove the danger to consumers 

 of milk, but would not prevent the spread of tuberculosis among herds. (Sur- 

 geon General Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.) 



It would, so far as human disease is concerned. (Dr. William H. Park, 

 New York, N. Y.) 



No; tuberculosis is the most insidious germ carried by milk. (Dr. Henry L. 

 Coit, Newark, N. J.) 



It would be a poor substitute. (Dr. R. G. Freeman, New York, N. Y.) 



No ; pasteurization should be always only a temporary measure. It can 

 never take the place of clean, healthy milk entirely. (Dr. M. P. Ravenel, Madi- 

 son, Wis.) 



Yes. (Dr. C. E. A. Winslow, New York, N. Y.) 



I think it is desirable to continue the tuberculin test. (Health officer Balti- 

 more, Md.) 



I do not think so. In order to prevent any danger from infection from bovine 

 tuberculosis the tuberculin test should be applied to all dairy herds, even if 

 pasteurization is compulsory. (Health officer Birmingham, Ala.) 



No. (Health officer Bismarck, N. Dak.) 



To a great degree. (Health officer Cleveland, Ohio.) 



Pasteurization properly performed is a substitute. (Health officer Colum- 

 bus, Ohio.) 



Not altogether. (Health officer Detroit, Mich.) 



No; diseased cattle should still be removed from the herds, and they can be 

 detected only by the test. (This for economic reasons.) (State board of 

 health, Florida.) 



No. (Health officer Jacksonville, Fla.) 



Question in which authorities differ. (Health officer Kansas City, Mo.) 



Tuberculin test much superior for cows. Of course, tuberculous persons 

 handling milk might distribute germs in milk from a pure herd. (Health officer 

 Lynchburg, Va.) 



It would kill the germs of tuberculosis, but would not remove the toxins. 

 Milk from a diseased cow should not be used. (Health officer Montclair, 

 N. J.) 



If properly done so far as the milk is concerned ; but you would have diseased 

 meat on the market. (Health officer Portland, Oreg.) 



No. (Health officer Providence, R. I.) 



Admitting (which I do not) that general pasteurization is desirable and 

 always efficiently done, it would. (Health officer Richmond, Va.) 



No. (Health officer Rochester, N. Y.) 



This is a big question; but would not be sufficient in my judgment. (Health 

 officer Seattle, Wash.) 



No. (Health officer Syracuse, N. Y.) 



Yes; as far only as infection by milk is concerned; but enforcement of 

 tuberculin test would greatly reduce losses in hogs as well as danger to man. 

 (Health officer Topeka, Kans.) 



With the necessity, yes ; but it would still be highly desirable. We believe in 

 clean healthy milk pasteurized. (Straus Laboratory, Washington, D. C.) 



Pasteurization would open the way for a dirty milk supply. (Sharon Dairy, 

 District of Columbia.) 



A reply to this question, we think, would depend entirely upon the final con- 

 clusions of scientific authorities as to the efficiency of the tuberculin test. It is 

 our understanding at the present time there is a very wide difference of opinion 

 on this point. So long as there is any question as to the efficiency of the tuber- 

 culin test, in our judgment all milk should be pasteurized. (Creamery Package 

 Manufacturing Co., Chicago, 111.) 



In my own judgment the tuberculin test should be applied gradually to the 

 various herds. Pasteurization will have to be used anyway, because scarlet 

 fever, typhoid fever, etc., are much more important from a milk standpoint 

 than tuberculosis. Every farmer should pasteurize all the milk that he feeds 

 to his stock so that he does not infect the young animals with tuberculosis. 

 Under the present conditions it is absolutely impossible to have all the herds 



