New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-18
MILK IN CITIES.

Mr. John Mullaly has done our City aud Sub
urbs a signal service in condensing into
twenty-fve.cent pamphlet, published by FoE
lers & Wells the statistics of the Milk Trade
Of our City We say he has done the public
real service but how much or how litJie
practical good will result from it, We cannot
estimate. 1t is dreadful thought that
several thousands of our population, mainly of
the lower class, are every year cut down in in
fancy, mainly if not wholly through the deadly
poison imbibed by them under the swindling
appelation of Milk. But the essential facts
are already familiar to our intelligent and con-
siderate citizens and how shall they be i'm
pressed upon the other class from whom the
victims of poison Milk are mainly drawn 7
We have exposed, and entreated, and remon-
strated yet too many heads of families AMI
keepers of boarding.houses will buy the cheap
stuff hawked through our streets as Pure
Country Milk, or Orange County Mix
without ascertaning whence it comes, or even
cheaply testing it by setting pan of it for
cream and trying to churn that cream into
butter. Convincing Lectures have beer given
and reported; Editorials aud Communica-
tions by the acre have been published but
the great body Of the consumers Of Swill
Milk rarely attend Lectures and seldom read
Cor heed) newspapers. And so the work of
destruction goes on, by the help of distieries
and fbar fb.k no. IL IN
was more Swill Mix consumed in 1852 than in
any preceding year and doubtless still more
will be in 1853. What can We do : Our MI
nicpal authorities and Police are the protec-
tors, the cOnfederates, often the bribed accom-.
plices, of the Swill Milk manufacturers and
distributors, and dare not or at least ,cW not,
arrest their desolating vocation. So it will go
on, solOngss Dstling shall be legal, and the still
sloPs will kill almost as many every year as the
distilled liquors themselves. Alive can dois to
save the intelligent and thoughtful from the
woes which the ignorant and improyident will
persist in encountering. AS many children
will die of swill milk this year as last but
your children, reader will not be Of the num-
Der; for you dare not involve yourself morally
in the guilt of their untimely taking Off We
write, then, for you; to keep you ever in re-
membrance that swill milk is poison, and that
you cannot innocently use milk in the city with
out first dsesrtaining that it is pure.
True, very much of the milk which comes
from the country is not what il should be- Two.
thirds of II is diluted with water before il reach.
es the consumers, and good part of il more
culpably adulterated with chalk, magnesia,
&c, in order TO make il bear more water
without betrayng its indebtedness to the Gro
ton. All this, however, is innocence itself com
pared with the feculent draining of the I'D
ders of our City cows, wedged together in low,
sitting novels generally attached 70 distlleries,
and there fed with still Stops and ike abomi-
nations until hey stagger, fall and die of the
confinement and poisonous food, and are
drsgged out and skinned TO make way for their
successors, who in few months achieve the
like welcome release from their miseries
And the filthy, revolving, poisonous fluid drawn
from these death-stricken creatures is con.
sumed by our citizens, most extensively and
destruetiyely by young children, az the rate of
enc Hundred and eighty thousand quarts per
day or about twO-thirds Of all the Milk used
here, though pure country milk is actually
received in large quantities, and those who
take adequate care can obtain this, perhaps
slightly adulterated) at all times
We shall not pursue the narrowing subject,
but advise those who take an interest in it TO
procure Mr.. Mullally's pamphlet. Its infor-
nation is full, its statements lucid, and we be-
ieye its statistics are reliable. Let the wise
lay them 10 heart.
~ Tie Richmond Hammer undertook m