Recalcitrant dairymen, who last week refused to submit their herds to the tubercular tests have consented to the examinations in a signed statement presented to Dr. W.A. McPhaul, city-county health officer.
When the dairy and ilk inspector made his rounds, collecting data of herds, six dairy owners announced their intention of refusing permission for the examination of their herds.
Dr. McPhaul and J.E. Huneycutt, commissioner of public safety, were to have gone on a visit to the protesting dairymen and given them another chance. Dr. McPhaul announced that unless the cows were tested for tuberculosis names of the owners would be published and the public warned of the milk. The contemplated trip was delayed but the dairymen decided to allow the examination and line up with the other milk producers in the program for better milk and better health conditions. Saturday morning, 12 cows, which had reacted positively to the tubercular tests, were slaughtered. These cows were partially paid for through appropriations from the federal and State government to protect owners from total loss in such disposition of their animals.
Dr. McPhaul said the cows, although apparently all right were found to be affected throughout the entire system with the deadly tubercular germ. Without the tests, milk from those cows would still be offered for sale in Charlotte, Dr. McPhaul pointed out.
From The Charlotte News, Sunday, Feb. 12, 1922
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