The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-30
A MILK CRUSADE STARTED.
Physicians Have Taken the Matter in
Hand and Good Results
are Promised.

crusade for better milk was launched at a |
meeting of the Baltimore Pediatric Club, says
Ine Sun, held at the hall of the Medical and
Chlrurgcal Faculty, and attended by large
NUMBER OF physicians and others interested in |
Inc care of children. 1t was demonstrated |
that large part of the milk sold in the city |
y unsafe for use among children, and the |
opinion was expressed that great deal of the |
mortality among infants is due to its use.
as result of the interest in the subject by |
members of the club it was announced that |
mix commission is to be appointed to labor |
Tor pure milk on lines similar to those described
by Dr. Henry L. Colt, of Newark, n. j., the |
principal speaker of the evening, which, he de- |
clared, had been productive of a tremendous |
amount of good in and about Newark. A
committee of five will shortly be appointed by |
Or. u W. Mitchell, the chairman of the club, |
to make as exhaustive an inquiry in the gen.
eral subject as possible, and to see what can be |
done to remedy existing conditions.
Or. Mitchell presided and introduced the |
speakers. The first was Mr.. Victor Bassett,
who began an investigation of the milk sup
ply at the Wilson Sanitarium in the summer
OF l9Ol, and carried it on more fully last sum-
mer. Mr.. Bassett asserted that by using COM
mon carein the production of the milk, throw
ing away the first results of the milking, the
use OF scalded receptacles and watchfulness in |
preventing the subsequent adulteration of the |
milk, the quantity of bacteria in the fluid |
could be kept down to few thousand per |
cubic centimeter. He showed a number of |
charts containing the results of his investiga-
tion In SO samples from the better class of |
dairy FARMS the average was 10000 bacteria; |
for 40 samples from the ordinary diaries it was
349, 900; for go samples at railroad stations, it |
was 100000, and for number OF samples
taken from small stores it was 5, 1852, 900.
Mr.. Edwin II. Schorer, who assisted in the |
investigation was the next speaker. He spoke |
ofthe use of preservatives, saying that formal
dehyde is the most common. Fifteen per cent. |
of the milk as it comes into the city and 81 per
cent.as it is sold, he declared, contains formal
dehyop. He stated, however, that a good |
many People do not believe preservatives to be |
harmful, but he asserted that the milk should |
be so produced, aerated and refrigerated that |
no preservstives would be necessary. He said |
that milk IS it is received at the railroad sta |
tions contains from one and a-half to two per |
cent. more lat than when it is sold to the con-
sumner. Adulteration is so common, he de-
clared, that large portion of the milk sold is
unfit for use With infants.
Health Commissioner Jones showed map |
demonstrating the number of deaths of in |
fants from intestinal troubles in Baltimore in |
the year 1902. The whole number was 741, of |
whom $40 were under 1 year of age. This, he |
said, does not include the number returned to
the Health Department as having died of ma
rasmus and inanition, and he was quite sure |
that of the 695 so reported many must have |
died from intestinal complaints.
DIR. Jones advanced the opinion that as the |
milk is brought to the city it cannot but be |
polluted, and he thought the only remedy
would be to have the dairy farms absolutely |
under the control of the Health Department |
or some other constituted body.
Dr. Colt dwelt at length upon the impor- |
lance of an improvement in the milk supply |
and went on to describe the plan put into exc. |
cution in Essex county, New Jersey, by which |
a commission was appointed to act in cooper |
alton with a certain dairy. The commission |
prescribed the rules to be followed and APP |
pointed expert psychologists and inspectors
and veterinarian, to be paid by the dairy |
men, After seeing that every precaution is
taken to have the milk healthy, including the
absolute health of the cows, the commission
certiies the milk to be pure, and the milk
from the plant commands high price and has |
large market. The price at which it is sold is
12cents quart. The objection was raised that
it would be much too high for the poor of Bal
timore, and DR.. Colt suggested that system of
inspection might be instituted that would not
be so expensive but that would be helpful to-
ward the cause of pure milk.
How should this crusade for pure milk be
carried on ?" said DR.. Colt. mot, think, by
seeking any more legislation; not by police
control, and not by alarming the people, but
by the patient and industrious educational in
fuence of the scientific medical men and by
personal appeals to the dairymen, both with
regard to their feelings of humanity and to
their commercial interests"
A"Veteran" of Lutherville Seminary
Lutherville Seminary, now called Maryland
College, will celebrate its 50th anniversary at
the commencement in June, and Miss Sarah
G. Trump, of Manchester, will, at the request
of the faculty and students, deliver the address
to the alumne on the occasion. Forty-ive
years ago the institution graduated its first
class of students, of whom Miss Trump was
one, and of whom she is the only survivor
A contemporary in alluding to the event says
of this excellent lady:
she taught private school, sending many of
h0t fOho loor
Later she was elected principal of the public
schools of Manchester, where her talent was
recognized and valued. Various offers were
made her to teach in schools of learning but
she preferred remaining at her paternal home.
"She has contributed articles and serial
stories to many religious and secular papers
and journals. She has organized various lite
rary societies and contributed largely to educa-
tional organizations in her community. In
religious and temperance work as well as all
moral reforms she was in the forefront, repre-
senting those causes in conventions and con-
ferences, at some of which she was the presid- |
ing officer. Her talent and decided religious
influence has made her prominent factor in
the community, moulding and fashioning
many hearts and homes for good. Though |
an invalid for many years. she is hard stu
dent great reader, living among the books
and writings of the literary characters and
authors of the past and present.
1.-The theme of her address before the alum
Veteran She is indeed a veteran in service
as we'll as years, yet animated, bright and
Jealous for the advance of everything noble,
pure, true and good. - Westminster Sentinel.
Big Damages for Thirteenth District
Land.-The arguments before the jury of
condemnation summoned by the sheriff of
Baltimore county as to the value of % acres of
land wanted by the Western Maryland Tide
water Railroad Company, were concluded at
Inn kor Rail- on
jury was then locked up and so remained until
l o'clock on Wednesday morning when YER
dict for S79,S00 was agreed upon.
The property involved in the proceedings is
owned by the South Baltimore Land Company
and extends from Westport to Mount Winans
in the 18th district 1t is wanted for right
of-way for the Western Maryland Railroad
Company's tidewater extension and for the es-
tablishment of freight yards.
Witnesses for the Railroad Company placed
values on the tract from $4,000 to $50 600, and
witnesses for the South Baltimore Company
said they considered it worth from 1000 to
| S105,0 600.
The iI1ry was composed of William II. Todd
foreman; D. M. Matthews Caleb S. Hobbs,
| Adolphus Cooke, Alexander Martin, Reuben
| H. Winehot, John FultZ, Emory V. Cross,
| Thomas G. Hunter, Frank Kenney, Augustus
| c.. Medinger and Elisha w. Parks.
| The Railroad Company was represented by
| its regular counsel, Messrs. McComas, Gather
| & Greenbaum, and Messrs. Boarman & Lind
say and Mr.. Frank 1. Duncan. Mr.. Bernard
| Carter Hon. j. F. q. Talbot, Mr.. w. R. Town
send Mr.. Julian J. Alexander and Mr.. John
| S. Biddison were counsel for the South Balt
more Land Company.
| Answer Filed in the Pole Case.-On Mon
| day last the Messrs. Carter, attorneys for the
| Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company,
| filed an answer to the bill of complaint of the
Maryland Telephone and Telegraph Company
against the County Commissioners and the
| Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company,
for an injunction to restrain the defendants
from in any manner interfering with the wires
and cross arms of the plaintiff company on
certain poles on Ingleside avenue, Gainesville.
All the material allegations in the plaintiffs
bill are denied and it is alleged that the poles
| in question are the property of the defendant
corporation, and that the only rights the
County Commissioners have is the reserved
right to string the wires of its fire alarm sys-
| tenn on the poles in dispute, and that the
| County Commissioners were and are without
the power to grant the plaintiff company the
right to place cross-arms and to string and
maintain its wires thereon. Mr.. 7. Scott
| 0ffutt is attorney for the Maryland Company.