The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28
The Committee Gets AC-
lively To Work.
TO INSPECT DIARIES
Dr.. TAFT Butler Gives an Interview
Stating the Desired and NeCessa-
ny Changes for Purer and
More HeaIthfuI Milk Sup
ply for RALEIGH

Much interest is centered around the
work of the special committee APP
pointed by the city Board of Health a
Jew days ago to inspect the dairies
supplying Raleigh with milk. and to
draft an ordinance containing rules
and regulations for the government
of these dairies. The committee has
alrea dy begun its work, and will re
port before the next meeting of the
BOARD of Aldermen. The ordinance
will then be submitted to tie Board of
Aldermen by the Board of Health.
DIR. 1ait butter, State Veterinarian,
one of the members of the commit
tee, was seen yesterday and made a
statement, giving the salient points
that will be embodied in the new ordi-
nance.
Dr. Butler said:
mo city has u satisfactory milk
supply without public control by an in
telllgent and thorough milk inspection.
Sufficient meteorological examinations
OF the milk supply of Raleigh have
ALREADY been made to show that u
number of local dairymen are not suf-
ficiently careful in preventing the con-
tamination OF their milk with the filth
COMMON to cows, stables and dairy
utensils. The number of bacteria in
milk is an index to the amount OF
filth which has been allowed to con-
taminate it during or after milking,
Care must be taken to prevent the con-
tamination Of milk during milking,
While it is in the cow, stable. and milk
room. While being delivered, and from
Improperly washed vessels.
Il am quite certain that q purer
milk supply may be obtained without
loss to the dairymen, and to the great
gain of the consumers
when the committee has completed
it's plans the dairvmcn of the city are
To be invited TO discuss these plans and
suggest such amendments and addi-
tons as will better conserve the inter-
ests of all concerned.
MIX inspection in Raleigh should
mean CD Such q supervision of the
cows and barns by a veterinarian and
physician as will exclude all COWS from
the herds supplying Raleigh with
milk; of all animals suffering from
tuberculosis (Which can only be done
by means of the tuberculosis test)
all cows with diseased udders, and all
cows otherwise diseased in such man
ner as to make their milk dangerous
or unWholesome. CD Properly Ventl-
lated, lighted and cleaned stables in a
sanitary location. CD A water supply
for the COWS and for cleansing milk
vessels that is uncOntaminated from
barn yards, manure heaps etc. For
instance, typhoid fever is frequently
conveyed to consumers of milk by the
use for washing the milk vessels of
water that has been contaminated
with typhoid germs from surface
drainage. (4) Attendants and mixers
who are themselves clean and healthy
and whose families are not suffering
from any such diseases as scarlet
fever, diphtheria, smallpox, tubercu-
losis, etc. co Mixers whose hands
and garments ara clean and who VIII
cleanse the udders CT the COWS and
take such care of the milk as will pre-
vent its pollution with filth. Many
have experienced that 'cowy taste in
milk--that means the milk has been
contaminated with cow manure. (G)
Milk that has been removed promptly
from the Stables strained properly.
cooled and bottled at the farm and
which has been handled i'm clean yes
sells. BY clean vessels | mean steril-
lied vessels. CD Milk that contains
not less than 1875 per cent of solids
and not less than 3.5 per cent butter
fat. (S) Milk that is distributed from
clean wagons III bottles filled at the
farm, and when these bottles are re-
turned from families that have scarlet
fever, diphtheria. etc. see that they
are not reflled before being thorough
ly sterilzed.
"All this can be done if proper and
Intelligent attention is given to the
matter, without much cost or incon-
venience to anyone, for, probably 80
per cent of those concentrations of
milk which render it unWholesOme or
dangerous occur after the milk has
left the udder of the COW. Healthy
cows, properly fed, usually give whole
some milk and if this milk receives
the care which intelligent dairy prac-
tice now demands. and dairy intelll-
gence makes comparatively easy, it,
will keep "a hours and insure to he
consumer a reasonably pure product
which he is certainly entitled to.
There is no more healthy city in
America than Raleigh, yet parents
frequently must send their children
away during the summer because, so
the physicians correctly state, a whole
some milk product is unattainable.
The city is entitled to pure milk when
scientific discoveries and dairy art
make it easy.
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