Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-19
WONENANDTH MILK SUPPLY
Volunteer Deputies May Inspect the Local
Diaries Hereafter
MRS. wAcWURPM SUGGESTS MOVEMENT
Healthy Conditions All that Are
Asked and a Determined Move TO
secure Them viii he
Made.

Il would suggest that the women now
volunteer their services as deputy milk
inspectors for Omaha"
Mrs. Harriet s. MacMurphy, chairman
Of the household economies department of
the Omaha Woman's club. which has been
conducting the investigation OF the diaries
from which the city receives its milk sup
Ply made the above statement in an in
terview Saturday afternoon.
Such a step would by no means be an
innovation on their part. she added.
Women are doing this sort of work in
many cities over the country and with
results not only most gratifying, but edu-
cadonal to a degree that will prevent
things reverting to their former depiorable
condition. If some of our women might
be made deputies to cooperate with the
regular deputy the same effort they are
exerting in this present Investigation might
be made TO yield definite results.
We have in the club, 1 believe many
women who would give their services who
are thoroughly informed regarding the
conditions which should prevail at the
diaries and competent to use the lacto-
meter. With such women as deputies there
would be no danger of political influence
and a great deal of ground could be COW
cred sufficiently often and with thor
pubhheeS tAidl Wouiu glelu TebuilS.
why They Started.
I'VE began with the idea that members
OF the department of the woman's club
which represents the home and conse-
quently the foods that are used in the
home should make themselves thoroughly
well informed regarding the foods that are
being offered for our consumption. We
resolved TO devote our years work to this
study and began with milk because It is
the food of the infant. We have devoted
three meetings to this subject and have
already discovered that 1t will require at
/, least that many more.
Since our reports of last Thursday we
have discovered, too, that the public Is
J Just as much interested as we are, and
as willing to do its part to right the con-
ditions that prevail. We have the assur-
ance Of Health Commissioner Ralph that
he will be glad OF our cooperation to OBJ
tain a betterment of the conditions under
which our milk supply is produced. II is
our intention to investigate still further
and believe that II some OF our women
could be made deputies very much better
and more effective work could be done.
See what the women have accomplished
in Portland, Ore. Under the guidance OF
the school OF Domestic Science, they have
made Investigations where the authorities
had pronounced the conditions satisfactory
and revealed a state of affairs that these
same authorities have been compelled tC
acknowledge dangerous. Furthermore. they
have had these things righted. The same
thing has been done by the women OF New
Jersey, Chicago, Pittsburg and in a scor,
Of other cities and believe the women OF
Omaha can do much
Il propose to devote the household
economies department program at the oper
meeting OF the club to further reports Of
Investigations along this line and hop,
that 1t will be made possible for all inter
ested to attend and get the beneht Of
these reports"