The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-30
CONSUMPTION OF MILK
IN GEORGIA CITIES
Reports Made to the Government Show I'm
prOvement in Methods.

cellence succeed in holding the trade
Of many customers.
The section of the report dealing in
detail with cities in Georgia is as fol-
lows:
Savannah. Population, 54,244.)
w. F. Drummer, health officer.
The daily consumption of milk is es-
timated at 5000 gallons, or 044 pint per
capita, besides an unknown quantity
of skinned milk and cream. Milk is
sold from ten stores and numerous
wagons. Glass bottles are used in the
delivery of milk by all the best dairy
establishments Those outside the city
I'LL the bottles at the producing farms.
No milk is pasteurized. Mix retails
for about 10 cents per quart through
out the year. Three diaries near the
city are conducted in a very satisfac-
tory manner their milk selling a the
regular rate. The number of herds Of
mich COWS within the city is not
known, but about fifteen dairy farms
send milk into the city. Practically
all the milk used is produced within a
radius of five miles.
The city has nc ordinance regulating
the milk supply, and no work has been
done along this line.
Recent Improvements are due to the
introduction of high-gr cattle, bet
Ter water supply at dairies, and more
care in the conduct of the dairy bust
ness Milk ordinances are very much
needed.
Atlanta. Population S0,S72.)
George NJ. Hope, chief of the sani-
tary department.
Estimated amount of milk used daily
is 1,500 gallons, or 0.13 pint per capita;
also 300 gallons of SKINNED milk, I0l
gallons of cream. and $500 gallons of
buttermilk. Milk is distributed from
ten stores and $50 wagons. Glass jars
are used to a certain extent, being fill
ed in the country or in the delivery
wagons in the city. None of the milk
is pasteurized. The retail price per
quart for milk is cents in summer and
cents in winter, producers receiving 8
cents in summer and cents in winter
The few model dairies" sell their prod
uct at cents per quart in summer and
y cents in winter. About 2129 mich
COWS IN three city herds and $50 couu-
Try nerds furnish the city with milk
only about 300 gallons of milk are re-
ceived by railway, the longest shipment
being twenty miles.
Two inspectors devote a large part
OF their time to the supervision of the
city milk supply, having examined dur
ing the past year 1850 samples chem
ically, but none bacteriologicaIly: and
inspected all Of the city diaries and
nearly all of the farms sending milk
into the city. A report issued by the
City Board of Health in 1899 shows
that about 8 per cent. of the samples
analysed failed to come up to the re-
quirements of the law, while 81 per
cent. showed more than IS per cent to-
tai solids
1t is claimed that the milk standard
should be raised.
Augusta. population, 39,441)
Thomas D. Coleman, NJ. D., secretary
Of the Board of Health.
Inc average amount of milk sold
daily is estimated as 600 gallons, or OH
pint per capita. In explanation of this
apparently low per capita, consunlp-
tion OF milk, it is stated that many
Iamllles keep one or two cows, and
that the milk from these is not in
GUIDED in the above estimate. Milk is
SOLD from one store and thirty wag-
ons' Nearly all the dairymen use
glass bottles in the delivery of milk.
ana these are filled at the farms. No
MIX is pasteurized. The retail price
OF milk is to Ga cents in summer
ana 6A to TX cents in winter. There
are no model diaries" near the CITY.
Dairy herds are not allowed in the
city: Milk is sent in from about tven-
ty dairy farms, the most distant heinz
SIX miles from the city.
The city conducts no inspection of
the milk or herds.