Cases of bovine tuberculosis arise in Shanghai, counsel continued, out of the unlicensed sale of milk. A licensed dairy would exercise greater caution to keep within the bounds of municipal regulations, If defendant had a licence he would have been compelled to sell only pasteurized milk and all danger io the public would be removed. Counsel conclud-ying that defendant belonged s who was short circuiting the regulations by selling milk without a licence.
Mrs, N. M. Raschakah, 101 Seymour Road, gave evidence of purchasing the milk from defendant and was followed into the witness box b. three officials of the Health Department. The last of them, Dr. J. H.
Blakelock, director of the Municipal medical laboratory, said that cow milk sometimes contained fatal tubercular baccili communicable to human beings, specially children, and read medical report stating that 2,000 deaths were attributed in England to bovine tuberculosis, two-thirds of which involved persons of 15 years No mere figure, he said, could des-cribo the extent of the deformity occasioned by bovine tuberculosis.
Defendant said he kept a small farm of goats and had sold milk to many customers who had nct complained that the milk was unfit for human consumption.
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