The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-06-15
MILK INSPECTION
Policemen and Agents of
Board May Test Milk.
What Legislature IntenGe6-What
Board OF Health May Do,
Sut il Won't.

Some Of the nilkmen are doing for
themselves. sid the father Of > large
family. yesterday. sitter reading the
Advertiser. what in California it re
QuireS 5 s2larisd man TO do. and it
looks IS though We 2re going 70 have
81 even chance 81 pure milk after the
Dairynen's Association begins work.
Do I believe milk is adulteratede Ger
J2inly. There is no more doubt Of it
than that whisky receives the atten-
ton q the bar-keeQsr before it reaches
the consumers lips
I've been keeping house in Homo
lulu for nearly Is years. 2nd I've taken
milk from about The same num-
Der o. Gairyuen. and ! find the
greatest difference but don't
believe il su comes from the
south winds. either. Why. I expect
from this on that whenever I have
occasion 10 find fault with NY dairy
man for the quality OF blue milk he
I delivers he will tell NE its the wind.
We pay g goOd price for the fluid. and
. II should Be pure, II the newly-togmed
association q 6ziryuea can improve
. II 50 much the better Did you ever
rad the lzw which deals with people
{ who sell 26ul-e-ztei milk Nos Well.
there : one somewhere among those
I passed during the last session OF the
T legislature You will ind il some
where among the laws which require
I 5 license for conducting the business,
I and II provides s penalty OF $50 from
I persons selling afulte-ated milk or
milk from which the cream has been
E skinned The next section author
f1sS any agent OF the Board OF Health
OF any police Cficer 70 inspect and
test any milk sold OF offered for sale
and 20 confscaJe any adulJeraIed milk
which he may find Have you ever
heard OF uiIk-uan being held up in
Honolulu by policeman or 2n agent
Of the Beard OF Health and the process
OF testing the milk gone through with
Not much. and If they had been. the
streets would many q time have run
with milky mud
Pure milk Is as essential 10 health
as pure beef. The PHYSICIANS say. and
Il * probable some one in the Legs
Izture was OF the opinion that i'm
pure milk vas being sold or the Law
would Hot have been placed on the
books But il has never. been 81
forced Look what Dockery has done
on his milk CruSeGes in San Francisco
He has made vendors OF the impure
article so ont OF business or stop pat.
rouiEing the wafer taps The same r.
suit would e1sue here II the law was
carried our as the Legislature intended
II should Be- but the inrroducer made &
mistake when he expected policemen
20 become chemists and 90 armed with
: Izctoueter and clean bottle Say
ing that any agent OF the Board OF
Health should Be empowered 10 make
tess was insufficient, some one should
u especially appointed 70 do the work
and il Is not 100 late now for the
Beard OF Health 10 assign some one
70 the task II need not Be done every
day or every night but II could be
done occzsionzIIy-
I Sc By the Advertiser that The
standard OF milk fixed by the associa-
ton + per cent butter fat VERY
veil that should Be the standard fur
nisted cousumers- and If they don't
se- II they should pay ! cent Z quar-
less for each o1ehalf OF I Der cent
under that II il costs the association
that much less The same benefit
should fall 10 the consumer I age
With Manager Weirick when he say:
z milk famine may follow the slaugh-
tering OF 50 many cattle, on account
q their having tuberculosis. and z:
The demand viii Be as large as IL nov
Is the price viii probably 90 I'D. Pos
sibly- Este- ziII b brought into requi
sirio1 after wagons leave the cenua
station with milk To prevent an
such occurrence The Beard OF Health
should appoint = milk inspector. in
: s-ssd Of depending upon policemen
Eto are not expected 10 know. eTe-
Tf-h z tester whether milk has bee,
, sGuItsTated- tell you there's z Tez
field here for { milk tester l belieT,
: he would have his hands fun for /;
month O. Two. Or 81 least until tbs
dairy uea-sOne Of them Al least
! found ont that zduIterzted milk Is IN
healthy and nay be made unprofta
{ be
Tie laws referred 70 b. TIE gentle
: nan are as follows
: Section ST. ANY person who shall
seA, q offer for sale any milk Ehicl
I 1zs besn zd1ltersted by the addition
: q Eztsr OF other substance; OF from
which the cream has been skimmes
: O. separated. unless the same Is spe