The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-03
PUT THE COWS
OUTSIDE OF CITY
ADVISES THE HEALTH OFFICER
SANITARY BOARD TOOK No ACTION
ON THE SUGGESTION, HOWEVER

No Milk Inspection Is TO BE Made,
Though the Board Decided to
Have the Milk Ordinance Pub
Iished-It Is Difficult to Under
stand What Good the Publication
of the Ordinance VIII DO-The
Question Came Up at the Meeting
and One of the Board Members
Said 1t Would Satisfy the News
papers and the PeOpIe-Infant
Death Rate Has Decreased Here.
prohibit the keeping of cows with
in the city limits"
Such was the recommendation of DR..
w. F.. Drummer, city health officer. to
the sanitary board. which met yester-
day afternoon The board neither fav-
ored nor frowned upon the suggestion.
Indeed all the members left it severely
alone.
Such a move would not be a popular
one, and it is not thought Council will
adopt it, no matter how strong an ar
gument the health officer should adj
vance in it's favor. DR.. Drummer con-
siders the COW an unclean animal, one
that caused more filth about a place
than almost any other. In cities, he
thinks they are out of place, and pro-
ductive of filth that must necessarily
be detrimental to health.
He explained this to the board, but
no action was taken on the suggestion.
The board did not even refer the mat
ter to Council. II is a subject that was
agitated here some in 1901, and num-
Der of politicians then found it was a
good subject to let alone.
1T ought to be DONE" said DIR. Brun-
ner after the meeting, though I have
no idea that it will be-"
No Milk Inspection.
Savannah will not inaugurate a sys-
tenn of milk inspection at present.
There seems to be no very great need
for it at present, according to state
ments made the board by DR.. Brun-
ner The health officer thinks the in
spection of milk would be a good thing
but he believes there are a number
of other matters more important, and
with the limited appropriation at his
disposal he proposes to look after
these other matters first.
The death rate in Savannah this
year among infants has decreased and
the death rate from typhoid has also
fallen off DIR. Drummer stated to the
| board. There has been a slight ad-
vance in the general death rate, but
DR.. Drummer does not think milk is in
any way connected with this. Savan-
nah, he says, has not suffered at all
from impure milk Under an ordi-
nance passed in June, 1901, the health
department is given the authority to
inspect milk at any time. If anything
wrong is suspected an inspection would
| be made at once.
Remarkable Remedy.
The sanitary board is about to ap-
| ply a remarkable remedy to the milk
evils, if there be any. 1t was decid-
| ed yesterday afternoon TO have the
milk ordinance of 1901 published. Just
| how the publication of the ordinance
| is to purify the milk is not known
| 1t is admitted that the ordinance Is
not going to be enforced, that is 1t
| is not going to be enforced unless by
| chance a violation should be discov-
cred. No effort, unless suspicion is
aroused, will be made to find out if
there are violations. The ordinance
! gives the health officer or his agents,
the right to make inspections and to
! analyze the milk and it also provides
| that no milk shall be sold in the city
| having over So percentage of water
| in it, or less than u percentage of
milk solids, at least per cent. of
which shall be fat
1t was asked at the board meeting
| what good could be accomplished by
the publication of the ordinance, and
a member of the board said it would
satisfy the newspapers and the peo-
pie.