30 THE COW IN HEALTH AND DISEASE 



cause of more of the ailments of children, than 

 it is, is due to the fact that there are too many 

 doctors who do not make enough effort to 

 find the cause of many of these conditions, 

 being very willing to call them summer com- 

 plaint, indigestion, etc. 



It is a recognized fact by a large number 

 of the best authorities on medicine at the pres- 

 ent time that bovine tuberculosis may be, and 

 in fact is, transmitted to human beings through 

 the milk of animals infected with this disease; 

 this affects children under two years of age 

 principally, although older children and occa- 

 sionally adults contract the disease in this 

 way. Dr. Park, an eminent physician of New 

 York City, is authority for the statement that 

 the bovine type of tuberculosis is the cause 

 of the death of two to three hundred of the 

 infants in that city each year; a mighty hard 

 blow to the mothers of New York to bear for 

 a condition that could be remedied. 



Great care should be taken in the produc- 

 tion of milk, so that the attendants who care 

 for the cattle do not infect the milk with va- 

 rious diseases with which they may be asso- 

 ciated, or be the virus carriers for them. Many 

 times people have been infected with typhoid 

 fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, etc., simply 

 through the milk that they have consumed. 



The water in which the utensils are cleaned 

 should be pure and free from any diseases that 



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