Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-01-25
MILK FOR NEW YORK.
Germs Found Swarming In the
City's Purest Supply.
NO PAINS TO KEEP COWS CLEAN,


Were Rarely Found-Certihcatio
Claimed as One Solution Of Purit
Problem.
The Rockefeller Institute For Med
} ical Research has issued a report o
the Investigation into the milk suppl
OF New York city carried OH by the in
stltute with the cooperation Of Pro
lessor William Hallock Park, says til,
New York Tribune. The bacteriolog
ical work was done at the labora,or,
OF the health department. The report
says:
"The milk delivered to New Yorl;
amounts to over 100000 quarts q
day. This comes from five different
states and forty-four counties. Much
of it is brought POO miles apd some of
1t over 800 miles. and its production
over such wide area of territory has
made anything like general supervi-
sion impossible
1.-The work of the institute was be-
gun last June and has been continued
up to the present time. The scope of
the work planned included obserya
tons on
. "First. - The sanitary condition of
the farms and creameries supplying
the city with milk.
Second. - Railway transportation
and city delivery.
"Ihird.-The condition of the milk
on delivery as to the number and vari-
cites of bacteria present.
"Eourth.-Ihe effect of milk of yarj-
Gus degrees of purity upon the health
OF infants and young children in insti-
tutions and tenements during the hot
weather.
"flftl.-A more definite study of the
changes occurring in milk which tuuse
disease.
sixth. - To what degree both the
dealer ana the farmer could he de- /
pended upon for voluntary co.ojnra-
ton in improving the milk supply"
II goes on to tell IF the inspection
maze AT the farms and creamcries by
'lr. burnett and DR.. Sarah Berller.
Most of the milk for the city is ..ol-
"cted at crenmeries. which each 70
eve the milk of from twenty to fifty
arms. Many of the farms were ey-
mined. According to the report, the
ow barns were in fair condti n, and
he cows We're generally found in GOOD
ealth, but almost no pains were taken
Keep them clean. There WAS M
retehse at personal cleanliness made
y the men. Two examples of bad
ondltions are then cited. The in.
pector suggested improvements at the
arlOus farms. ,
AT the creameries themselves very
feat improvements were suggested.
was found very rarely that cream
y was supplied with a sterilizer for Z
ottles or cans. and those In charge
ere OFTEN ignorant Of the SIMPLEST
alters relating to milk contamination
III how it was to be avoided"
The report then deals with the sub
ct or bacteria In milk and the result A
1t diseases 1t says:
THE chicf dangers in milk are due
the. bacteria which it contains. Milk :,
the OILY article of food in which
ar'y al bacteria grow rapidly. and
it they multiply at favorable tenn.
ratur"-i. e.. about blood heat-in 4
almost Incredible manner.
The number Of bacteria is the best
'ans or determining whether the =.
Tx IS clean and fresh and whether it VI
been properly handled, and it tells ;
tn certainty the story of mistakes
i neglect. II
Milk from carefully groomed COWS
clean stables when taken under the
t precautions now possible. cooled Or
nediately to below 40 degrees II. n
Kept at that temperature during
importation by proper icing and sent Or
express trains to the city, although ,
ldled with every precaution against
tamlnation, contains when it reach
he consumer from 10000 to 100. 900 Ho
terla in each teaspoonful. This for
best milk. Dr.,
NOW. what of the worst milk? Dur Ii
last summer the milk sold in the
'erles OF the tenement districts con-
ed. as shown by the examination T
le by the bacteriologist, from 4 600. AS
TO "o'OoO.OO0 in each teaspoonful A
just such milk as this was fed last
lner TO many infants in New York. a-no
'uring the latter part of June three p
Fps of infants living in different
ions Of the city and fed entirely
cows milk were selected for OBJ. I'll
alton In each section a portion of v
infants were left upon the grocery ma,
""'o'i ,ney were already using, ano
'OI tue remalnOer special milk f40(