New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-07-16

Tlon printing the secoLd days proceedings OF
tie Committee on the Swj Milk business. on the
ID Of June, We foresaw that the affair was to be
mere farce: that tie report would be made as
favorable as possibe to the swill men. But when
the hiehes. medical talent in the city came forward
TO deLounce the business as little short of licensed
iIfantic6e: when the Health Officers showed that
Ire rotten of the COWS weresurreptiheusly
sold for human food even in the best markets;
when citizens Of high standing added their personal
knowledge Of the filthy nature Of the business aud
the offensive character Of the stables; when not
voice was raised in favor of the nuisance except
from persons immediately interested therln, we
could NOT believe that even the kindred sympathy
of an equally degrading and poisonous business, or
TIE widest SEPARATIONS for the sheiffalty, or the
confidential personal eI plsnatoOs Of the diste's-
or all these motives and persuasons combined,
could have induced any three msmbers OF the Com
mtsee to make report so utterly opposed to the
evidence Ga that which they finally produced We did
rot think It possible that men could be found even
in the Common Council, 60 lost to shame as to put
forth such a document. Yet it was done, and
luODtN Inc INC eo"u'"eso W.
Sheriff or Controller, and Reed the butcher, put
their names to the infamous majority report. Mr.
Haaweu, the President of the Councimen made
manly ard sensible minority report. Dir. Council
iran Cross, who was one of the Committee and
warts to 20 to Congress, took no part in the matter
TIE audacous assumptions of Tuomey's report
indicated that tie thing had been made right,
and when the Board of Health met on Wednesday
the withdrawing was speedily completed BY the
following vote:
A-aM s.sysn TsstsI r ToSIsy Reed ca s9ss
n shs Gess. G.ipa, X'eS.s.s SoanSl6
odSsS"sa @.sS fs si B:ds
t:.nsee.,Ad Merry Clancy HofmjTe, Mamo bradley
Naa The. Costello. Cross and Dunn-lS.
TIE full Board Of Health consitts of AZ mem.
bers and Swill Milk gets the Endorsement Of l6,
or three eishths Of them. The entire result Of the
painful effort of the whitewssding Committee is
that the COW stables shall be better ventilated and
tie animals have room enough to lie down. that be-
log DONE tie business may 60 on under the patronage
Of the City Inspector.
A glance at the evidence 900 pages upon which
this scardsous report processes to be based, re-
yeals that ss soon as il became probable that an
investigation would be made into the business,
nearly half the COWS kept at these establishments
were driven into the country or sold for beef, aud
tie stables subjected to course Of cleansing and
general Improvement every exertion being made
TO present az good an appearance as possible on
the arrival Of the Committee. The number Of
COWS was thus reduced to about 500, while the
supernter dent of the feed department testified that
there had been from 900 to l 100 in the Sixth
teenth street stables at one time within ayear lie
said that some of the COWS went into the country,
some to the butcher, and Others had died before
they could be got rid Of. After some lodging,
tie same witness testified that the COWS were
MIXED while they were sick; that they were pur-
posely innoculated with virus from dead cows, in
order TO protect them, it is said, from disease.
After the Committee bad gathered up all the favor
able testimony to be got from the immediate
employees aud interested parties in the swil Sta
bles, they very reluctantly admitted the other ride
to hearing. DR.. John W. Francis gave very
emphatic condemnation Of the whole business Of
swill feeding either for the purpose of milk or
meat. He believed, and it was the opinion OF med
;csl men almost without exception, that swill milk
VAS deleterious to all who used it, and especially
destructive TO infant Life. The leaned Tuomey
,quirued under this plain testimony, and endeav-
ored to weaken its effect by confning DR.. Francis
to facts Of bis own personal experience, instead OF
his general knowledge As phJsician.
Tie swill men were also represented BY counsel,
who subjected Dr.. Francis and other adverse wit
resses TO the an OF ace Of eross examinations full
Of inper.irence and spleen. The City Inspector,
Who Las formally complained OF these stables as q
Nuisance pIeju6icid to the public health, testified
that cows which died in these stables were fire.
qusuty sold under the cover OF darkness to butch
ers, who disposed Of them for food. lie had
caused some of the diseased carcasses to be seized
While being prepared for the stomAchs Of our cit
zeus. Mr.. Motion stated that one hundred and
fifteen dead COWS had been taken out OF the city By
the osal contractor within the lreient year, be
.te large quantities OF diseased bsef which had
been found cut 10 for sale. Tee Health Warden
of tie Seventeenth WsrdAlso gave al accorn. OF
dissection q some Of these carcssses, which 10
altogether too disgustingto repeat The superln-
ttrdel. of sanitary insps ,tisn proved that the
owners of the stables had been making great efforts
to put them in good condition since the excitement
commenced. Other witnesses teshhec 10 the most
extreme flthiress in regard to milking; go that the
running matter from ulcers aud the e1ecFement
tylm tie cows frequently fell into the milk pals,
a-d no attention was psld thereto.
In an appendix 10 tie Report, We fnd ahidsvit'
even more convincing than the oral testimony
tie formal complain. Of the City Inspector as'iu's