The morning call., 1893-10-19
MILK ORDINANCE.
Dairymen to Be Hereafter
Licensed.
AGAINST ADULTERATED MILK
The Board of Health Recommends a
Stringent Order for Passage
by the Supervisors.

Dr.. Regensburger presided at meeting
of the Board of Health yesterday, as Mayor
Ellert was unable to attend on account OF
pressing business in his Office.
a communication was received from
Police Surgeon Somers in which he asked
that S195 month additional be allowed
the Receiving Hospital for salaries to pay
another steward and an extra assistant
surgeon. DR.. Somers said that the extra
assistant would be more needed if the care
and custody of persons awaiting eXamina-
ton on charges of insanity would devOlve
on the physicians of the Receiving Hos
pItal.
No definite action was taken on the
Police Surgeons recommendation and re-
quest for extra help, but the board adopted
a resolution by unanimous vote indors-
ing the action taken recently by the Board
of Supervisors in requesting the Superior
Judges TO call upon the City PbYslclan 10
examine insane persons when up Tor eX-
animation before the courts.
The resolution also provided that per-
sons charged with insanity should be Kept
in the new prison of the City Hall, under
the supervision of the Police Surgeon and
his assistants, instead of at the b ONE Tor
lnebriates, as was formerly the case.
A milk ordinance, drafted under the su-
pervision of the boards attorney, George
A knight, was presented and read:
Section one declares that it shall be un-
lawful to RdulteTate milk offered for sale
in this city.
Section two refers to the keeping of
cows in crowded places. and to the feedin G
to them of food that would produce i'm
pure milk.
Section three provides for the licensing
of all dealers in milk and registration
also the placing OF names on delivery
wagons.
Section four provides that milk from
which cream has been distracted shall
have on the can containing it the words,
SKINNED milk"
Section five provides that all milk con-
tanning more than S7.5 per cent of water or
less than 1875 per cent Of milk solids shall
be deemed impure, unwholeSome and adul-
terated.
Section six provides that any one who
having a license to sell milk, shall after
notification that he has sick or diseased
cows, keep the same among cows from
which milk is SOLD will forfeit his license.
Section seven prohibits the feeding of
still slops to milch cows.
Sections eight and nine provides for the
creation of the Office Of milk Inspector and
defines the duties and prescribes the
powers.
Section ten declares :how analyses Of
milk shall be made.
Section eleven provides that the person
in charge of dairy in this city and county
shall at once notify the Health Ofhcer of
any one OF ths premises suffering from
typhoid fever, scarlet fever, or any other
contagious disease.
Section twelve fixes the penalty for vio-
latiOn Of any provision of the order at not
less than SIS nor more than $500, or i'm
prisonment N the County Jail for not less
than ten nor more than 100 days.
Section thirteen provides that any ono
thrice convicted under any of the sections Of
the ordinance shall after such third con-
viction be prohibited for period of one
year from selling milk in this city and
county.
c. w. Taber. a dairyman. was present
and advocated the proposed milk ordi-
nance, and said that the dairymen were
willing to pay a certain reasonable sum
toward the salary OF milk inspector. He
thought that the milk inspector should be
selected with great care and given good
salary, so that there would be no tempta-
tion TO blackmail dairymen. Mr.. Taber
also suggested that each dairyman should
be compelled to register at the Health
Office the trademark or brand of his milk
The board concluded to incorporate this
provision in the proposed order Another
provision proposed by the DairymeD's As
sociaton, providing that license fee of
So year should be charged all mllkmen,
and an additional sum of 81 for each
wagon run. was also incorporated in the
proposed ordinance.
The ordinance was adopted as a whole,
and 1t was resolved to use every effort to
have it passed by the Board of Super
visors. The board placed on file COM
municatiOn from the California Medical
College asking for permission for the
students of that institution to attend at
the City and County Hospital.
The application of w. Il. Tubbs for per-
mission to fit up reading-room and cha pei
at the City and County Hospital was re-
ferred to the superintendent of that insti-
tuition.