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Show HOW FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE WAS SPREAD There Is a big disturbance In the federal bureau of animal industry over the charges that thc foot and mouth disease was allowed to spread through a blunder made In diagnosing the disease when it was first noted near NMlcs. Mich. Dr. W. L. Graham of Niles, a veterinary, vet-erinary, produces documentary evidence evi-dence to prove that the wrong diagnosis diag-nosis was made at Washington ac corulng to a message to the Chicago Tribune from Niles. Dr. Graham de clares that to his knowledge ship-mpnte ship-mpnte of cattle were made to the Chicago stock yards and to eastern markets from the inferted district around Xlles for fully a month and a half before the epidemic officially was announced and the first quarantine quaran-tine established by the federal or state authorities. "On August 23." said Dr. Graham "I was called to thr- farm of William L. Hoadley. two miles west of Niles, to look at some cows which the owner own-er said were off their feed The animals ani-mals showed symptoms I eould not diagnose to my satisfaction. I Im mediately "notified Dr George W. Dunphy, state veterinarian "In September ten dajs later Dr Dunphy came to Niles and looked at the Hoadley cattle. Three days later la-ter Dr. Mailman, state pathologist, came and took samples of virus from the infected animals These were eent to Washington to the bureau of animal industry for examination. "On September 18 I received the following letter from Dr Dunphy: 1 h&ti a report from Washington that the sickness among cattle at Niles is not foot and mouth disease, but mvcotic stomatitis which will yild to treatment. I would advise the use of creo dip freely for swabbing the mouth. The dilution of about one to one hundred, and one to fifty for use on the feet.' "After repeated messages that the disease was spreading everywhere the bureau of animal industry suddenly thought the case was worth looking into. On October 10 Dr. Adolph Elchorn of the bureau at Washington came to Niles. He Is a recognized authority on foot and mouth disease. He did not hesitate to diagnose the case as foot and mouth disease after his first inspection. That night, October Oc-tober 10, rush orders were sent by wire to a half dozen of the leading experts of the bureau of animal ln-dustiy ln-dustiy to come to Niles at once to take care of the Infection, which by that time had spread through two counties In Michigan and two in northern Indiana." Dr Graham said that to his knowledge knowl-edge shipments of cattle and hogs had been made to the Chicago stock nrd? and eastern markets from the Niles territory during the month and a half between the date he first discovered dis-covered the disease among the Hoad ley cattie and October 17. when the government and state officials announced an-nounced a quarantine on Berrien and Cass counties in Michigan and St Joseph and Laporte counties in Indians. In-dians. Local railroad officials inform The Standard that, prior to the suggestion in The Standard as to the necessitj of purifying all stock cars used in inter-state traffic, an order was In force compelling the disinfecting of eveiy car and today not a train pulls into Utah from any outside point until un-til all stock cars have been inspected and passed. With thorough quarantining and disi feeding, there should be no dau-gerv dau-gerv of the disease entering Utah. on |
