The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-16
DEATH IN THE MILK CAN.
Where Some Of the Pure Country
Milk Comes From.
OUR UPTOWN ORANGE COUNTY
An Inspection by Reporter OF Twenty
Hitherto Unreported Sheds Filled
With Ga,bage-Fed Cows.

rrafnc in tho death dealing swill milk. as to which
there occasional exctoments, 10 always vcy but
at times less noisy than al other times
LIVE PrRE MILK
Purc milk s not only luxury but as all recognize,
great necessity at Que particular period OF human
He II contains every ono OF the proximale principles
absolutely required in the animal economy. Upon
pure milk dict even adult will live and prosper In
definitely Nothing clse in tho shape OF food Is used
so much as milk II Is the daily food OF large pro-
portion OF tho community ana II is often called into
rcquston to keep the spark OF lo aglow in the poor
bcdrdecn invalid Who perhaps receives nothing else
Cor weary days. probably weeks.
POISON IN TINE FORM or HILx
To sustain life thus indefinitely milk must be pure.
When II 10 adulerated by water, chalk sleeps brains
&C., procured from that kept in filthy and
consequently unhealthy pens, or fed upon poor, In.
nutritious or food such beer grams, garbage
and, fact all tho various ingredients that 60 to
mako up the refuse swill Of . kitchen, II becomes
highly perncious and detrimental to tho hoatn even
lfc Of tho individual who is unfortunate as to
be compelled to II, such as the weaving infant
Impure milk has been known TO cause In the young
child all the various forms OF cnteric disease Whom
an enteric disense becomes developed digestion is
next to impossible and the Oh lid Invariably dies Of in
aniton
How oflen in this city does tho mother undertake to
weau her babe during the summer months, and IL dies
after short sickness from that dreaded slayer OF the
infant cholera iniantuml Tho child has boon iocdng
upon cows milk but q few days when II is
neutrality-suspicious. after q convulslon--seizcd with
terrible vomiting and purging, wastes fright.
fully and dies in fcw DAYS Tho
physician. who has been called In, shakes his wise
head and says, summer complaint" signs the death
certificate and goes his way. II he had but thought
OF milk and had gone 10 the small store IN the tone
mcnt house block and traced tho source OF thor sup
ply. he would have then discovered the poison beds
that bred tho germs OF tho disease that killed tho
little ono in "swl" feoding establishment in tho
upper districts Long Island.
WHAT FACULTY SAY.
All tho eminent Psychologists say 'that the milk Of
animal always partakes OF the character OF It's food"
Then II COWS nro fed upon "swi!" whcthcr It be in
the form Of beer grams or city garbage their milk
DO good and pure? II dozen or more cows are kept
confined In ill.ventilatcd damp, and filthy place
which would put the black nole Of Calcutta to shame
Tor years. they be healthy? And, last Of ALL
scky give milk that would be proper and nutri-
tious food for child or invalid?
The Board OF Health Of tho city OF London England,
answered these questions. lew years ago, when II
made investigation to endeavor to ascertain tho
OF outbreak OF typhoid fever which then
aging in London After mature and careful dclbera-
hon the Board expressed the opinion that milk ob-
famed from cows which Kept on bad ana decayed
lood and filthy and stagnant water, and sold TO tho
poor, had great deal 10 do with causing tho epdem 10
OF fevcr
THROUGH PRESS.
Some ago the OF this city took tho above
questions In hand aud drove the 'swili milk vendors
TO the wall After tho press raised the alarm the
health officials caused miikmon TO DO watched.
Wherever s'swill milkn was found II was sezed aud
poured in The gutter, liquor tho old day OF the
Maine liquor law, and in some places milk flowed like
water alter August thunder storm. Fcrryboats
were watched and no milk allowed TO entor the
city II from legitimate diaries outside the
'swiii milk districts The police, also, called
into reqnisition and given something to do--viz, TO
watch the "swill carricrs in their daily rounds
Tho people have hoped that this city would mover
again be troubled with "swill milk" Their hopes, as
We know now were vain.
RESPECTABLE PEOPLE ASSIST THE PoIsosMoXGER.
Tho industrious .'swill man" collects his 'swilI''
diligently and Just diligently does he dispose Of tho
milk obtained from ted upon the sw he collects
from private houses and hotels thus making respect
able people, unkncwingly, parties to his nefarous
trade. Tho apathetic Health Board that, by the way,
sposes of two three hundred thousand OF the
peoples money yearly, but nobody, saving them
Selves kno IS how, stand calmly by, when they ought
to know that "swili milk" Is imported into our city
would be lucrative In the summer II the inspectors
Of tho Health Department instructed to look
Tor ssswll milk'' II IL o ioregone CONCLUSION that
Professor Chandler would not DO called upon TO
many analyses In cases OF sudden death and sus-
pcctcd poison he could deliver his opinion after
o careful and remunerative analysis, "Dicd from
natural Causes"
BERGH YOU'D.
Mr. Bcrgh did Q worry commendable act when, the
thoyd av ho ha 0f hr awi mi
vender who had eighteen so-callcd mich shut up
in an old dilapidatcd sweat box OF shed. which hc
the vendor, digniHed by the namc Of stable. Tho
in horrible condition, suffering from that
frghtful disease among cattle known ''hoof rot +"
But would call Mr. Berghs attention TO tho follow
Ing facts and request tho Health Board to observe
they awake from their lcthargy:--
FIRST PLACE VISITED
A load Of beer swill, In tho shape Of grains, was
recently going up Broadway and the writer FOL.
lowed in It's wake to sixty-seventh street. between
Eighth and Ninth avenues, whore II turned into
row lane and was sight OF amid small shanties
and novels 10 that ncighbornood All efforts TO
tho OF tho filthy premises behind which the
wagon disappeared, opposed by old woman
with dirty rcd shawl twisted over her shoulders and
crossed her breast and tied behind her waist the
sny other garment observable was filthy short
SKIRT which covered her lower cxtrcmitics.
She could not be made TO comprehend any.
thing, but would persist In numbering an
unknown lingo which might originally havo
been German suggestive pile Of COW manure was
In Tho yard and tcw cows could be dsccrncd among
the tumblc-do novels IN tho a wagon with
some ordinary swl barrels fastened H. also stood in
tho yard The man's name Bacr, and II was quito
evident that the grains we're not meant Tor the bpcds
Any ono having the pCwcr Of law could look into the
matter moro carefully.
GIVING
On Eightysccond street just cast OF the Boulevard,
q number of kept. Their coats arc very
rough, and great blochcs can be distinctly seen
their hldcs--which however, may only be the hair
rubbed on. They are very thin aud hnvo an exceed
ingy scky appearance. There was running sorc
upon tho back OF one They conned Ia an old She'd
built OF boards, that have the appearance OF having
scan halcr service. Tho hoycl IL nninluy filthy and