Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-12-12
THE NEW MILK ORDINANCE
Introduced in Council and Re-
ferred to Committee.
HEAVY PENALTIES ARE IMPOSED
A Slight Reduction in the Ex-
listing Standard.
An Ordinance Also Introduced Regulating
Fire Department Matters when One or
More of the Companies are Ont Of the
City or Are Not in Service.

held lengthy session Thursday hight,
| during which two ordinances were In
troduced aud other important bust
| ness considered.
The much hsralded milk ordinance \
was introduced by Mr.. Cannon, read
twice and referred to the law com.
mittee. 1t requires the milk inspector |
| TO record in hooks kept for the purpose,
in the office of the Health Depart
ment, the names and places Of bust. |
ness or residence Of all persons engaged
in the sale of milk or cream in the
city. All diaries, including COWS, cow
stables, milk houses and milk vessels,
the owners OF which offer for sale milk
or cream within the limits of the city,
ehall he subject TO the inspection OF
I the milk inspector. ANY person who
sells. o. has in his possession Tor sale
or exchange, adulteIated milk or milk
to which water or nay foreign substance
has been added, or milk from diseased
or sick COWS, sha /, upon conviction
before the Municipal Court, be fined
from $40 to $50 for the first offence and
from S25 to alG0 for subsequent offences,
Any person Offering skimmod milk for
sale as pure milk ahall BIZ subject 10
the same penalty. No dealer or other
person shall sell, deliver, offer for sale
or expose for sale, any cream, milk
or SKINNED milk, unless the vessel, can
, or package containing the same shall
be plainly or distinctly marked desig-
mating the same 10 uEoondensed gothic
letters not less than one inch in length.
The fine for violation is $40.
The standard is fixed at not more
: than sS per curt of watery matter and
: not less than IL rer cent OF solids, not
! less than QUE fourth of which must be
= fat. The sale or exposing for sale of
4 uncleau, impure, unwholesome or
: colored milk; the keeping of COWS for
a the production of milK in a crowded
a or unhealthy condition, or their being
i fed on food that produces impure,
diseased OF unwholesome milk, or their
;, being fed upon distillery waste, garbage
i or swill, or upon any substance 10 a
a stats of putrefaction or rottennsss OF
J, upon any substance OF any unwhole
!. some nature are prohibited, under
penalties ranging from $40 TO $780,
!, Every person offering milk for sale,
"A from a wagon shall have painted or
,f both sides thereof. In conspicuous
"a place, the name in full of the owner.
N Tho penalty for violation is fine p
$40.
The milk inspectors salary is fixet
at 81, 600 per annum, as at present, ant
,he is to furnish all necessary apparatu
for inspection. He js authorized tt
ct select a competent chemist, to maxi
analyses, and for each analysis tn
chemist is to receive 80, to be paid b.
OF Council. In cases OF convictions follow
at ing analyses, the cost of each analyst
st is to be added to the cost OF prosecu
ia tion, to be paid by the person so CON
" victed.
or The inspector is given authority ;
enter any place where milk is sold o
IT. kept for sale, or stop aud enter an
les wagon from which milk is sold. An
he person interfering with the inspecto
rs; while in the performance of his dutie
le, shall be liable to fine of from 81
IN, to 525 for each offence. The old licens
ID clause is repealed.
Chairman McCafferty of the CON
Ia mittee on fire companies had read twic
ice and referred to the law and fire con
err mittees an ordinance amending th
ma Fire Department ordinance. 1t provide
am that, If by an accident to any engine
tie hose carriage or other fire apparatus I
any fire company, the said company sha
be thrown out Of SERVICE the presideI
ut thereof shall Immediately report to Ii
ton chief engineer of the depai tnent, sta
les ing the reason for the loss of service
chs the company and the probable lengi
"a of time the loss of service may COL
81 tinue. Whereupon, the chief shall r
81. quire some other company to respor
ut to all alarms to which the company Of
,rs, OF service ordinarily responds. tb
ell, arrangement to continue while II
Die, company for whion it is substitutii
am, IL out of service. A similar arrang
on, ment shall be made when any compal
or companies are out of the city. ~
les, stipulation Ia also made that sit sht
the be the duty of every fire company, b
He fore sending away for repairs any Of
en- apparatus, TO first secure other q
at paratue to take the place Of that sbo
to be sent away for repairs. Il
following penalty clause is attache
IF any fire company shall remain o
Of service more. than 80 days or ahl
al fail to comply with any OF the pl
l;v.. visions of this section for more th
> i a. 30 days, the FIRE committee of Coun
may, in its discretion, withhold q
or az deduct from tine FIRE appropriations
~ said company the sum of So per day
oose each and every day. after said peri
of 30 days, during which fire oompa
,rho shall be out of service or shall fail
W." a. comply with any of the provisions
this this section"
.;nn The following reports for the NOR
tion of November we're read and fled:
oon Milk Inspector Observation-Disclosures
~. inspections, 245; quarts inspeot
u ~ 1850; quarts condemned, 252; samp
~ ane collected, 54; analyses, %. peroents
80 Of adulterated milk in the samp
,;sna analysed, 10; percentage Of skimn
that milk, 10; diaries inspected. II; deal
ears fined, 8.
ea m;i; Building Inspector Cassidy Mum
Wa of permits, II; value of improvement
,.r+ $40, Ais.
osns Superintendent Capnon Of the orei
go tory-Number of days in which
orematory was in service, 25; wei
49, OF garbage consumed 500, go pound
Oil Inspector Ryan-17, $50 gallon!
pital City Treasurer Feaster reported
city balance of SOL, 46l. 90 and reosl
9 N. during the week as follows: From
Dun Collector Lewis. 81, 1852; Collei
d II. Sayers 81, 125; Clerk of the Mar
IS of O'Nsill, Sl9.26; City Auditor Bou
neie, man. sls; Building Inspector CASH
1tlng S75; Chief Boughman Of the City Ri
7 To- neering Department, $40. 20; B
O,OCO National Bank, interest, $685. SO d
of the four depository banks, 1922 s6
The Board of Education was alio
its monthly appropriation of s14, ga
mani. Tickets for the ball of the Journey
Jams. Plumbers, Gas and Steam Filters
con. ISOLATION we're accepted.
Accident to a Motorman.
William E. Alden of 1914 West II
street, q mo.ormauf in the emplo