The evening times., 1901-08-02
THE PURE MILK CAMPAIGN
No LaXity in the Efforts of the
Health Department Officials.

Twenty New Warrants sworn Out
for Persons Charged with Selling
the AduItcrntcd ArticIc-CoIInter-
ais Forfeited To Avoid "A Herring
The campaign Of the Health Depart
ment against persons alleged TO De selling
and Offering for sale milk that Is below
the standard fixed by law. is just now be
ing pushed with much VisOr and the uu-
thOrities hope that il Will result in general
good. Within the past month about sixty
persons have been summoned TO the Police
Court charged with selling milk contain
ing less than 3ia per cent of butter Fat,
or with adulterati0u Of the product with
formaldt hyde. OF this number not more
than half dozen have escaped fines a
number OF those for whom warrants were
issued deposited SO each FOR their ap-
pearance ana when called for trial for
feited the collateral rather than undergo
the ordeal of public hearing.
one man who forfeited collateral on
( Wednesday was called again into court
I The forfeiture was not considered sufii-
cient, and on the suggestion of the acting
prosecuting attorney. A LeftwiCh Sin
clair, bench warrant was ISSUED for
him. This brought him into court ycster-
I
drug in the milk he sold by saying that
! formaldehyde was employed in securing
the cans used by his firm. He was per
mitted to so without ad, tionaI fine.
in connection with the use OF formal
/ dehyde in milk what seems 10 be regard
| I'd by the Police CoIrt officials as an in
terestiug question was sprung YESTERDAY
/ II was said that milk sent 20 Washington
/ from a dairy farm in Maryland had been
I found To be strongly impregnated with
l the drug; that a recent shipment from
/ TINS farm had been analyzed before il
! was taken from the cars. and the fact es-
! tabiished that it was adulterated.
Now the Health Department officials
/ are in a quandaTy as to how 10 reach thu
( one who. according 20 law is responsible
! for putting this milk on the market. If
/ Il ~ the owner of the farm and he is a
J resident OF Maryland. they would like to
| know how he can be brought TO ac-
! count. II he can be caught within the
precincts OF the District the problem
! they say. viii be easily solved; but if he
! is cautious enough 10 keep out Of the Dis
l tr.Ct they are at a loss TO know how To
punish him The middIemen To whom he
/ has been selling his product will have to
suffer. however ignorant Of the fact they
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I handling is impure.
/ The law provides that anyone selling
! milk containing less than 3ia per cent OF
( butter fat, or cream, or milk containing
Z tormaldehyde. shall he fined not less
than s. nor more than 500 for each and
every offence
II is SAID that one OF more mem
. bers Of number Of different fami-
lies I'm yhis city have recently be-
come seriously Ul and that for a
time the cause OF their decline mystiIyd
. the attending physicians. but that the
cause WAS finally Enthusiastically traced 90
milk the sweetness of which had been
preserved by tha use Of fUrfuaIJehyde II
Us. therefore, suggested 10y persons inter
eStel lu the milk question that every con-
sumner should demand Information as %
where the product he uses comes from.
Sucn prec8utiOu. if is thought. would
make the dalrymcn more careful and also
nave wholesome efrCCt Ou the retailer.
Warrants for about twenty more per
sons who are charged with selling Impure
milk have been issued.