The San Francisco call., 1904-06-24
HEALTH BOARD
AFTER DIARIES
Sanitation of Sheds and
Barns Becomes Greatest
of Questions to the People
SEEK TO MODIFY LAW
Milkmen Say Provisions Are
SO Severe That They Work
Hardships on the Trade

The Board of Health met last night
to hear the recommendations made By
the Dairymen's Association in refer
ence to the proposed ordinance regu-
lating milking sheds and barns. Con-
struction, ventilation and sanitation
were thoroughly considered.
There were present: President DR..
]. w. Ward, Drs. w. r. Harvey. p. J.
Poheim. ]. v. Hughes and j. COp1n
StinsOn, members of the Board OF
Health; d. F. Ragan. Health officer,
and Louis Levy, Deputy Health Ot-
ficer, Attorneys E. ID. Knight and COL
Onel George Pippy. who represented
the Dairymen's Association; some nifty
members of that organization and Dr.
Rupert Blue of the United States Hos
pital Service.
The dairymen and their attorneys
put up a strong fight TO have the or
dinance greatly modified. They have
partly succeeded.
In regard 10 article 1, instead OF the
barn being Of sufficient size to average
600 cubic feet of air space to each cow
as required a compromise was effected
and $50 feet or its equivalent was final-
ly decided upon. In article the point
about the size of windows brought up
a big discussion. The ordinance called
for windows AKA in size at intervals or
every six feet. Dairyman John ID.
DAILY of San Mateo said that windows
Of this size would cause half or the
cows in the building TO jump through
them. as he knew from actual expert
ence.
After a long wrangle it was decided
that windows should be 215x4 and a.
distances Of ten feet or it's equivalent
WANT GOOD FLOORS.
D hes 90
imperviOus as TO admit of no leakage
to the ground beneath, a gutter drain
to carry off discharges and a sewer TO
connect Herewith 10 carry the dis
charges 200 feet away from the barn.
Article 4 provides that feed boxes are
to be so constructed that they can be
hosed out. The question Of cleansing
the floors and walls of the stable. as
provided in article s, was hard nut to
crack. The board wanted the floors
flushed every day after each milking
by water under high pressure.
Mr.. DAILY said this was entirely i'm
practicable. The place would never
dry and the slippery floors would cause
the cows to fall down right and left.
Dr. Blue said flushing was a good
thing and he thought the floors should
be flushed daily. He. however.
had never run a COW barn and spoke
from the standpoint Of a bacterial ex-
pert
Henry Brewer suggested that lime
instead of water be introduced.
1t was decided that the floors shall
be sprinkled and cleaned once a day in
place of the slushing-
The location of the milk house was a
bone of contention. In the, course Of the
discussion Mr.. DAILY said he wanted to
understand if the board wanted to
drive all the milkmen out Of business.
DIR. Ward in replying said that the
conditions we're such that il was i'm
perative to have changes and that for
the health and welfare Ofsthe people
they would have TO take place. Milk
should hereafter come up to a baC-
| THEOLOGICAL standard and that was all
there was TO it.
POINTS AT ISSUE.
TT is a marvel to me-" said Mr..
DAILY, that If conditions are as you
say that any one is living in Califor-
MIA at present"
DR.. Ward retorted: There are not
as many living as have a right to live.
and if we had pure milk they would
be living. 1t is in order to protect
those who cannot protect themselves
that We are taking these measures"
The provisions are as follows:
The miIkhouse according 70 article l. shall
be in a separate building
Article II-screens must be put over all
I
Article II-The milk must be taken to the
miikhouse in a covered pail
Article IV-Vats and ether receptacles used
to cool milk shall be OF wood or OF cement.
Article says the milkhouse shall be washed
out daily.
Article vI-Helpers who handle milk shall
be personally clean
F. +. Plant, owner Of the Plant Farm
Dairy situated near Vallejo. states
that if the proposed ordinance was
passed he would be driven out of busi-
ness. The provisions Of the ordinance
would cause the production of milk to
almost double in price, hence the con-
sumer in San Francisco, who is now
paying 1-3 cents a quart. will prob
ably be compelled to pay about 10 cents
Great stress was laid in the
meeting on the subpject OF the
Hotaling Model Dairy, which was
said to be nearest up to the standard
of the proposed ordinance. Mr.. Daily
stated that he understood the Hotaling
dairy was losing $4,000 a year.
The committee did not adjourn until
.. 80 o'clock this morning and the work
II did is subject to revision