Excerpt from The Inglenook, Vol. 14: July 2, 1912 Wisconsin made a statement backed by figures that at least 30 or 40 per cent of the tuberculosis in city children has its origin in milk from infected cows. Is there not some reason, then, for a large-city, or a small one for that matter, to require the dairymen to have their cows tested for tuberculosis? There are other reasons for high infantile death rates which we cannot discuss at this time, one of them be ing improper ventilation which causes about 15 per cent of the deaths of young children in the cities. City ordinances are of little value unless they are actively enforced by a live health department as in Omaha. Concerning the work there, Health Commissioner Connell says: All the daily papers have not only 'been willing but anxious to publish these reports each month, which they have done free of charge, and they deserve the gratitude of every citizen of Omaha. The health department receives telephone calls almost every day, of inquiry regarding the scoring and why their dairyman's score this month is lower than some other dairy. Bulletins and reports on tuberculosis are numerous and you can secure them from experiment stations nearest you or the national department of agriculture. In the Agricultural Yearb'ook for 1908 there are two. Very striking illustrations which are here' shown. The cow is an old one and affected with tuberculosis. Such cows have been known to live for six years spreading the disease in the meantime. The hogs are rooting in a manure pile taken from a stable where tubercular infected cattle are kept. More than half of the hogs contracted the disease within six months. No other comments are necessary other than that it pays in more than one way to be sanitary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.