Show STATEMENT BY DR BEATTY Did Not Say Half Cattle Slaughtered Here Are Diseased To The Salt Lake Herald In justice to all concerned I desire to correct a statement attributed to me rue in inI The Sunday Herald to the tho effect that half I tha cattle slaughtered In this state were affected with either tuberculosis or lumpy jaw I 1 made no such ridiculous and ex cx exaggerated t assertion nor did I discuss the tho th question with the reporter who sought the interview except to briefly comment on the new meat Inspection law prepared by hv the state board of health and to express exprESS the hope that it would serve sere in some measure masure to restrict the sale of meat from front diseased and otherwise unfit animals and ami promote the sanitary regulation of or ter bouse hous a much needed improvement It is a n fact that tuberculosis is and ana lumpy Jumpy jaw Ja are arc among the diseases affecting cat tle the slaughtered for the market m In Utah but In no such proportion as na that which I was S alleged to have asserted U T TC E BEATTY DETTY |