The evening times., 1896-12-15
FOR BETTER MILK SUPPLY.
Amendmcnts to the Law Submitted
to Congress for Action.

The Commissioners forwarded yester-
day to both Houses OF Congress a copy
each of u bill prepared by Health Officer
Woodward for the further regulation OF
the sale of milk iH the district, which,
among other things -asked for, provides
that all permits required under the law
shall be reissUcd annually; tAat all Cows
supplying milk foribsS in fhe strict shall
wear tag. and AsSthht akte shan be
better provision for tile detection OF
colOrinS matter.
Another amendment is contained in
section g, which Is Intended y prevent u
practice adopted by dishonest dealers in
milk, OF carrying a pure article. in one
receptacle and in another ID supply Of
water to be added to the milk as it is
served.
Section OF the new bill provides for
a legal STANDARD for cream. tnd section 5
supplies deficiency in NE law as re-
laung to the sale OF condensed milk.
The provisions OF section cover de
cisions of the Court. among them that which
holds that the keeper Of dairy lunch
room who sells milk with other articles
of food does not sell milk within the mean
ing of the law while section authorizes
the adoption of such regulations as may
be deemed TO be necessary to put the
proposed law into effect.
In commenting upon these various pro-
N1SlDus. DT. NtbuN drI. WutSt report WctS
inCloSed with the measure, says:
1t is not necessary to offer any argu-
ment to demonstrate the necessity Of regu-
lating by law the traffic i'll milk, the only
food article of animal origin which is
habitually consumed in its raw state by
almost the entire population, and which,
more than any other, makes up the diet
of invalids and infants. ...,
The examination of the milk as offered
for sale ~ fIlunr mn VI N
pared with the supervision of the condi-
tions u which it is produced but neither
alone ees with even a reaSona bic degree
of & " good milk supply.
Examination of milk as offered for
s. II show whether it has been al
dncc it was taken from the cow by
he extraction OF cream, the addition of
water, or by the use of artificial coIoriug
matter or preservatives; but it will not,
under any ordinary conditions, show
whether the cow from which it came was
suffering from disease, or whether those
employed about the dairy were SO af-
fected; whether it had been properly cooled
after milking, or was kept free from Dirt
whether the dairy utensils We're kept clean,
or the water used in connection with them
is free from pollution. ,-z
Errors in this latter respect are more
dangerous to the Consumer than the stealing
of cream by sHmming, or of milk by water
ing, and the consumer is not neariyso SO able
to protect himself against them"
Under the present law, Or. woodward
says, 1T is impossible to keep track of
those having permits. Some go out Of
the business and a large amount of dead
material accumulates, and the annual
issue of permits is, therefore, recommended.
For similar reason. ne asks that the
cows wear tags. Condemned COWS, he
says, often find their way to other daires,
and, owing to the infrequency of inspcc-
tons, through the limited force of the Of
flee, such cows may be innocently used
by the man into whose possession they
come last. The requirement that the cows
shall be tagged he regards as very i'm
portant.
The bill has the approval of the Com
missioners.