St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-21
EUSTiS AND KELLY.
These Two Officials Lock
Horns Over a Medical At
tendance Bill.
Unfavorable Report From the
Health Commissioner on
the Diaries.
At Last the East River Bank
Boulevard Has Been For
mally Ordered.
GrocerS' Association Annual
Meeting--A Prominent In
Surance Man Missing.

The health board held meeting yes
terdaY afternoon. The mayor was pres
ent. and managed to stir up quite
breeze before he left the room. Health
Commissioner Kelly presented bill for
SD for attending patients at the quaran-
tine hospital This work does not legiti-
mately belong to the health department,
So when DR.. Kelly attends cases there
he is of the opinion the city should pay
him for it. aside from his salary as
health commissioner. The mayor, how
ever. has never agreed with HIM on this
point, and yesterday he stated that he
thought it shame that city official
should insist upon extra pay for work
when he was receiving regular salary
from the city. Hot words passed be-
tween the two gentlemen, which afford
ed entertainment for the audience.
Mayor EuStiS finally left the meeting in
anything but Il pleasant frame OF mind,
and the board passed the commission
er's bill.
DR.. Kelly's report on the dairies of
the city was an interesting affair. IL
demonstrated that the milk being con-
Sumed by the citizens Of the city Is any
thing but pure and wholesome. de
divided the diaries into four classes
llG UlSL QiFlSlOH VI Nidoo iiSAhASN
the dairieS which partially complied
with the necessary sanitary conditions
for the production of milk suitable for
human consumption. The second class
included the daIrcS where the food and
water supply were not good; the third
where the cattle. water, food and gen.
eral conditions We're UI~lnItary; the
fourth where the COWS " r. poor and
filthy, the water bad, tie 100 poor, the
barn foul and the mlik-cOUilng room
dirty.
I'VE must admit" continued the doc
tor in his report, THAT the milk supply
of our city is far from what the sanitary
regulations require, and L feel JUStihed
in reporting and recommending radl-
cal change in dealing with this to0d
supply from that now in force. L am
well aware that any reference to this
matter by our department will be re-
garded by the state officials as meddle-
some in the extreme, and likely TO be
replied to caustically, yet the public
health is, in my opinion, above all
petty jealousieS, and it is our duty to
sound the alarm bell, and take such
measures at once necessary to improve
the quality of this food supply. As you
| have already examined the inspectors
! reports of $50 dairieS with 1854 cows, L
think | am warranted in saying that
| there is not one dairy among them that
is first-clasS III every respect. L have it
from good authority that only forty-One
samples of milk have been examined i'll
fifteen months, and not single analysis
in eight months; not one prosecution in
year, and no general inspection since
April l and May, of 1892.
Il want our milk supply simply pure
and clean, taken from we'll fed, wa
tered, cleaned, happy, healthy cows.
Therefore | would recommend that this
! department demand an amendment to
the state laws, placing the control of our
milk supply in the hands of the depart
ment of health, where it properly be
longs. Ii the people of Minneapolis
knew the filthy and dirty condition OF
cows, barns; mIlk-cOOling rooms and
water supplies of nine-tenths of the
diaries. they would be surprised. | hope
We will be in a position, before many
weeks have passed, to put in force such
measures as will insure reasonably
pure milk supply"