The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-04
AwoRD TO OUR BOARD OF HEALTH

Several articles have Of late been pub
lished in the BULLETIN calling the aaentior
of the city authorities to the character of thu
milk which is furnished by the dairymen O.
the city. An investigation has been earnestly
urged upon our Administrations and thu
Board of Health, but with no apparent result
The milkmen continue to vend their un
wholesome concoction and are not interfered
with. The gentlemen who have charge ol
the sanitary measures Of the city must be
cognizant Of the injurious nature of the
article sold for milk, and when their atten-
ton is repeatedly called to the subject il
should be investigated. w.. qss
Many Of the Ellis that flesh is heir to" are
induced by e use of compounded milk, and
| if this cause were removed the result would
surely warrant the trouble taken to effect a
remedy. This subject is attracting notice in
many Of the other large cities Of the Union.
New York, Cincinnati Chicago and st. Louis
have all been aroused to the importance of
abating the nuisance. In the latter city the
death-roll of infants is claimed to have been
largely increased solely from this cause. The
following extract from the st. Louis Repat6-
lican will serve to show that there are some
grounds for the request that stop be put to
the sale of impure milk:
But for the babies there seems tc be no pro-
lection against the insiduous poison introduced
into their susceptible systems in the food given
them. DIR. OBrien, of the health board DR.. PIN
and other physicians, attribute the increasing
mortality among the little ones to the swill milk
upon which they are fed,r These physicians have
devoted much time through course OF years to
the study OF the subject, and have carefully in
vestigated the causes of the heavy death-rate
among the children OF the city during the sum-
mer months. They have about reached the con-
cusion that very large percentage of the causes
Of death among the infants can be traced to the
deleterious character Of the food upon which
they subsist.
The children Of the poor, in larger proper
NOn than those OF the rich, fall victims This it
is thought is due to the precautions which the
latter employ in seeing to it that swll milk is not
introduced into their domestic establishments.
The poor have neither the knowledge nor the IN
huence to keep SO careful guard Of the well
being OF their offspring. While men are sordid
and avaricious dairymen will partake of the
character OF their fellows. They are neither
better nor worse than other classes, all of which
are rushing along regardless ofnlce distinction OF
right and wrong to get on in the world. Efforts
to suppress the practice of selling milk from
COWS fed on swl have thus far proved futile, and
if medical men are correct in their conclusions,
death has reaped annually boundful harvest,
aided ia its destructiveness by the avarics Of
daiIymen.
The Board of Health of St. Louis has been
called on to afford the necessary protection,
and our own Board may be as earnestly re-
quested to take some action in the matter |
Whilst discussing the ACCESSIBILITY of estab-
fishing quarantine to prevent the introduce
ton Of disease from abroad, it might well be
to them to look into the dangers of |
disease which arise within our limits We |
trust there may be as little delay about this
matter as possible.