The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-09-30
CITY MILK SUPPLY
Paper by Nathan Strauss of New
York Wakes Up the Mayors
Convention.
Practically No Milk Furnished
in Cities Fit to Be Fed to
Children.
Mayor Quincy Of Boston on the
Extension of Municipal Pub
lie Service.

The morning session of the National
\ Association of Mayors and Councilmen
j. hat aroused great interest among the
delegates was the reading of paper
contributed by Nathan Strauss of New
York, on "The Influence of a Pure
Milk Supply on the Death Rate of
Children"
Most Of the municipal officials here
were conversant only to limited ex.
tent with the work being done by Mr..
Strauss in New York. Naturally they
were eager to learn all its details, and
listened to the recital of them with
close attention. The paper was read by
DR.. Ford of New York, and its opening
statement that 'there is practically no
milk delivered for general consumption
in cities that is fit to be fed in it's nat
ural state to young children" was
sufficiently startling to challenge at.
tention if not contradiction. The paper
closed with the following appeal. II
think have fairly demonstrated the
proposition that many thousands of in.
FAINT lives gre annually sacrificed by the
neglect to supply for the nutriment of
children milk which has been subjected
to the process of Pasteurization.
We Punish Some Kinds of Murder.
Ihold that neglect to be criminal, and
leave it to you to fix the responsibility
for it, We punish murder with the
penalty OF death and yet allow murder
to be committed by the wholesale in
every populous community of this land
with no thought of its punishment, and
little thought of it's prevention. The
most exasperating Of all forms of oppo-
sition to public well doing is that which
comes from those who pervert the trust
of public Office to the satisfaction of a
personal gruege, or the pursuit of a
temporary partisan advantage. have
had enough experience Of this in New
York to force me to the conclusion that
the man who sets himself to the task of
doing good must be schoQled into in
difference against the shafts of obloquy
and Misrepresentation. appeal to
you gentlemen who are charged with
the responsibilities attending the gov.
ernment of cities, great or small, to
study the conditions under which this
work is done and carefully note the re-
suits which attend the doing of it.
Beside u Stream of Death.
IL appeal to you as if you We're stand.
ing beside great river III whose current
were constantly swept past hundreds of
drowning infants. This stream is a
very real thing, if people would but
recognize its existence, and all it's yearly
tribute of death is paid because of the
public neglect of some of the simplest
precautions for the saving of children g
lives. You, gentlemen, have the means
under your control by which these
drowning babies can be saved. ask
you, will you not apply them? Men
are found capable of acts Of heroisn in
presence of danger less threatening and
less surely fatal. All that plead for
is the extension of the activity of local
boards of health into q sphere which is
legitimately theirs, but which they
have SO far lacked the conviction and
the courage to occupy. shall not have
spoken in vain if have succeeded in
impressing you with the fact that the
dictates OF humanity and Of public duty
combine in demanding that this back.
wardness should exist no longer"
1t was II o'clock when the confer.
ence was called to order. The first
speaker was Mayor Silas D. Drake Of
Lincoln, N. j., 1.-THE Boom" town that
has three women delegates from its
council here. He introduced to the
convention Mayor J. A. johnson oi
Fargo, who argued for uniformity Of
state laws pertaining to municipal or
ganizations. and urged upon the con
terence the forming Of permanent
committee on legislation, one from each
state to formulate plan whereby The