The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-31
MILK FOR NEW YORK.
Germs Found Swarming In the
City's Purest Supply.
no PAINS TO KEEP COWS oLEAE.

Were Rarely Found-Certiacation
Claimed as one solution of Purity
Problem.
The Rockefeller Institute For Med.
ical Research Aas issued q report Of
the investigation into the milk supply
OF New York city carried on by the in
stitute with the cooperation Of Pro-
fessor William HalIock Park. says the
New York Tribune. The bacteriolog
ical work was done at the laboratory
Of the health department. The report
says:
The milk delivered 10 New York
amounts 20 over 100000 quarts
day. This comes from five different
states and forty-four counties. Much
Of it is brought 200 miles and some Of
it over 500 miles. and its production
over such q wide area OF territory has
made anything like n general superyi-
sion impossible.
Tho work OF the institute was be-
gun last June and has been continued
the work planned included obserya.
t.onS O---
First. The sanitary condition OF
the farms and creameries supplying
the city with milk.
Second. - Railway transportation
and city delivery.
"TEird-Thc condition Of the milk
on delivery as go The number aud yari.
eties OF bacteria pr sent
"Iourth.-Tho effect of milk OF vlri-
ous degrees Of purity upon the health
Of infants and young children ln insti-
tuuOus and tOucmen,s during the hot
weather
Fifth more definite study of the
changes occurring iu milk which cause
disease.
sixth. - To what degree both tle
dealer and The farmer could Doe de-
pended upon for voluntary co-opera-
tion I'm improving the milk supply
II goes on 20 tell Of the inspection
made at the farms and creamerirs los
Mr.. Burnett and Or. Sarah Relcher.
Most OF the milk for the city is col
lected at croamevics. which each re-
ceive the milk Of from twenty 70 fifty
farms. Many Of the farms were ey
amined According TO the report u
COW barns were in fair condition. an
the cows Were generally found in good
health, but almost no pains were taken
TO keep them clean. There was no
Qrotense nj personal cleanliness made
by the men. Two examples OF bad
conditions are then cited The I'm.
spector suggested improvements at the
various farms.
AT the creamerics themselves very
great Improvements were suggested.
1t was found very rarely that a cream
CRY was supplied with a sterlllzer for
bottles or cans. and those i'm charge
were often ignorant OF the simplest
matters relating 10 milk contamination
and how it was 70 be avoided"
The report then deals with the sub
ject OF bacteria in milk and the result
ant diseases. Ii says:
THE chief dangers in milk are due
TO the bacteria which II contains. Milk
is the only article of food in which
nearly all bacteria grow rapidly and
in it they multiply at n favorable tenn
perature-l. e, about blood heat-in
an almost incredible manner
The number OF bacteria is the best
means Of determining whether the
milk is clean and fresh and whether il
has been properly handled, and 1t tells
with certainty the story Of mistakes
and neglect.
milk from carefully Eroomed cows
in clean stables when taken under the
best precautions now possible cooled
Immediately TO below 40 degrees L.
and kept az that temperature during
| transportatioH by proper icing and sent
by express trains TO the city, although
handled with every precaution against
contamination, contains when it reach
as the consumer from 10000 to 100 600
/ bacteria I'm each teaspoonful. This for
the best milk.
"Now. what Of the worst milk? Dur.
ing last summer the milk sold IN the
groceries Of tie tenement districts con-
tained, as shown by the examination
made by the bacterlologist. from 1 4OOO,-
600 10 600 100000 I'm each teaspoonful.
summer TO many infants in New York.
During the latter part of June three
groups of infants living in different
sections Of the city and fed entirely
upon cows milk We're selected for oh.
seryatlon. In each section portion OF
the infants were left upon the grocery
milk which they were already using,
while for the remainder special milk
was furnished. Comparatively little
serious illness occurred among the in
fants fed on the special sterlllzed milk.
The children who received the grocery
milk did much worse in similar sur
roundings."
The report advocates two require.
ments for the purity OF milk-a steriliz-
ing apparatus az every creamery where
bottling is done and great care in
keeping milk at the proper tempera.