The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-22
FOR PURE MILK
Board of Health Hears
Recommendations as to
Control of Supply.

The Board Of Health OF the city of
Raleigh held very important meet
ing yesterday afternoon looking to the
taking Of steps by the city towards
the protection of the milk supply
which is sold in Raleigh.
DR.. Lewis and DR.. Joseph Graham
were in attendance to speak to the
board on a matter which they stated to
be of the greatest and most vital i'm
portance to the health of the people
of the city generally. Milk, they de-
cIared, was the chief propagation of di-
seaSes and epidemics Of manifold
character and it's sale should be so re-
stricted and guarded by every town
as to insure an absolutely pure sup
ply drawn from dairies run on sani-
tary principles The need of an or
dinance of the city, which would in
sure an inspection of both the pro-
duct and the dairy where it was pro.
duced was one that was now become
insistent to every city which had a due
regard for the health and welfare Of
its inhabitants
DIR. Lewis, who spoke first to tbs
board. laid particular stress upon the
care of the diaries in which the cows
were kept, and told of the dangers OF
infection from unsanitary arrange
nents near the stables and milking
places, as well as in the fields ana
pastures, and also outlined the ex-
IRENE care that should be exercised in
the management of the tins and YES
sells into which the Eailk was placed
before distribution to the public He
pointed out the fact that milk was one
Of the most fertile mediums for the
propagation OF disease germs and
showed the insiduous way in which
one unsanitary dairy might affect the
health and lives of an entire COM
munity.
DR. Graham confined his remarks to
the board for the most part to a dis
cussion of the effects Of milk upon the
children of the cities the majority of
whom are weaned on cows milk He
indicated the fact that a larger pei
cent of infantile diseases come from
the consumption of milk which has
not been sterilized and which con-
tains the germs of disease, which
though not necessarily iinjurious to an
adult, frequently take their heavy
toll in baby lives He outlined the
proper methods of handling milk, SC
as to ninimise the dangers of infec-
ton from germs originating either al
the dairy or in the opening of cans
on the way to the city. stating that
one VI the StHlpleSl preventive EneIn-
DDS which could be used. and one that
ought TO be enforced on all dairies was
the serving of all milk on ice, the cool
product being far less susceptible to
contagion than milk Which was allow
ed to remain in a warm state
Today the Board of Health will hear
from Doctor TAFT Butler as to the care
of cows. etc, and from Mr. McMackin
after which an ordinance will in all
probability be prepared to put into
effect the recommendations of the
gentlemen who are interesting them
selves in the matter and who have
made special study Of the conditions
affecting the milk business at the diff
ferent dairies.
The members of the city Board Of
Health are Doctors Hubert Register
r. S. McGeachy, president H. r.
Tucker, Mayor Powell Jas J. Johnson.
William Boylan, Geo. T. Norwood
Jas. G. Upchurch, Walter Watson, T.
p. Sale.