New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
FOUND BY INSPECTORS.


Perhaps the best way to illustrate some OF the
conditions to be found In the country is to
take some rather graphic extracts from the
official reports of the inspectors Of the Health
Department.
''The first premises inspected" reported one
inspector were those of - Here found a
long one story building. the front Of which Is
occupied as the living apartments OF the family
and the rear portion used as a stable Tor six
teen COWS. These are crowded into two stables.
% by q by 10 feet and by 10 by 10 feet.
giving only $50 feet Of air space to a COW.
THE COWS are fed on brewers grains, bran,
meal stale bread d>hay; no swill is fed them.
The walls inside the stable dirty. apparently
never having been Whitewashed. The ceiling is
low dirty and extremely liable to drop dirt into
the milk while milking is being done. The well
from which the water is drawn for watering the
COWS and for washing the cans and other uten-
sils is situated close to the stable, ana between
II and a large pile of manure which is thrown out
upon the ground at one side. There is a
tub set in the ground near the pump containing
what was evidently unclean and stasnant WAFER
in which the cans Of milk are set when cooling Is
done The utensils are washed in the yard near
the house. The cans are constantly kept In the
stable"
Unless the ventilation was extremely good this
could hardly be considered a healthful place for
keepiug COWS, for q COW requires several uines
as much oxygen a human being. The latler
requires $4,000 cubic feet OF air each hour. Ihe
manure was only 10 feet from the stanle ana
the pump was so near to 1t that one could not
use IT without standing on the edge OF the un-
savory material.
Another case:
The stable is exceedingly dirty, being un-
whitewashed and the manure being thrown out
the httiId
ing has an incline allowing the liquid portion OK
the manure to drain out at the end OF the
stable, where it stands in a stagnant pool The
well is in swampy ground, is about four feet
deep, is uncovered. and had evidently not peen
cleaned for a long time. The water is pumped
into a tank and runs into the stable by means or
a pipe. The cattle are fed upon brewers grains
and middlings these being mixed with water ana
Fed as a sort of swill, no water being given
the COWS except what they receive in this way
There IS no milk room. and the cans are not
pronerlv cleaned The milk is strained into
cans which stand in the stable at the time OF
the milking and the are washed in the
stable in the midst OF filthy surroundings. After
the nights milking. the milk is set in a vat III
the wellhouse, where It stands until morning.
7 would recommend that this milk be excluded
from the city"
The well referred to was only seventy-fve feet
from the stable which was drained toward IT,
II furnished all the water used in the dairy.
Both of the above dairy farms were in New
Jersey. within easy driving distance Of Man
haitian The following was in the same neigh
borhood:
"At the premises OF ---. on the ---
Plank Road is produced the milk sold by the
owner al st. this city. Here I found
q stable 175x5Ox9 feet. Seventy-fiy cows, which
are fed upon hay. grain and brewers grains.
occupy same. No swil is fed. The manure
IS thrown out upon the ground, and is within
twenty feet Of the well from which all the water
used is drawn. The well is about ten feet deep