New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-08
DIR. DARLINGTON ACTTTE.
Cooperation scitb Health authorities
of Other Cities Helps Him

v1-t.bt thu last few weeks Health Cor1rni sz1cnsR
Darlington and his helpers have made special tours
through what IS known the milk she'd. IN
Guiding New-York. eastern Pennsylvania ana
northern New-Jersey Dr.. Darlington, the health
departments OF other cities and the State Com
missioner OF Agriculture through cooperation.
have increased greatly the power OF all to enforce
sanitary rules among the dairy and creamery man
oesrents Thanks TO this cooperation. 4 OIL
passed the legislature about q week ago. recurring
every foreman OF a creamery TO nave license
from the State.
a class OF milk dealers IS still without the pals
oS sanitary law It is that OF the farmers As
vet the only way the health authorities can reach
the farmers IS to order the creamery toremen 70
refuse the milk Of farmers who are known to keep
their COWS under unsanitary conditions
Investigations OF the Health Department. have
shown that with reasonable care milk reaches the
CITY in excellent condition The bacteria which rnaks
milk fatal to babies require moisture. warmth and
food With these conditions. they increase so rap
idlv that from one germ 20 may be produced IN
three hours. 10000 in six hours. 100000 IN nine
hours and 10000 900 in eighteen hours Their
presence takes the nutriment from the milk and
gives the fluid in It's place substances that are more
or less poisonous. The bacteria in milk increase
most rapidly at IS degrees, and reproducing
the freezing point or 50 degrees
The Health Department has sent the milk
producers a number OF directions that should b.
followed. The first orders cleanliness. the second
the quick cooling OF milk. and the third its rapid
shipment 10 the consumer. More important than
the dirt and dust of the stables and the sewage
that may he found in the wells from which water
for cleaning the milk utensils Is taken. Is coosid-
cred the condition o: the cows The circular SAYS,
Outbreaks of contagious disease frequently veS-.
from the infection OF milk. Old milk. While SIN
sweet which has nOt been quickly shipped 2f1Nr
collection. often contains enormous numbers %
germs. Is unwholesOme and capable OF CAUSING
serious sickness espet ALLY IN the summer Nor
than dfty-sx hundred children under two wears Ole
died New-York CITY IN 1904 from diarrhoeai
diseases These deaths were largely due % such
milk old milk viii far as possible Re excluded
from this city In the future.
Al the typical country creamery. central re-
ceivne station the farmers milk Is poured into
uncovered trap and passes into an uncovered tank
Few places pasteurize raise the milk TO 40 de-
grees 70 kill the germs From the tank II goes to
the uncovered bottling machine. Some crearnsrtes
do not pack the bottles In tee but suspend the milk
In large IN pools OF dirty water cooled by cakes
OF ice.
The Health Department Is making strong and,
10 IS reported. successful effort 70 have old ard
dirty creamery buildings replaced by new ones; 20
have the walls well plastered and the hoors made OF
concrete have the surroundings OF the buildings
Clearly and the water supply pure, 10 have thu
rooms large light. Well ventilated and tree frorn
crowding: TO have the tanks covered. the milk
pasteurized all utensils thoroughly cleaned and The
buildings and all connected with them rna1aeAins&
generally in modern sanitary manner.