The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-07-13

present time the customer could take
his choice of having milk delivered
in bottles or from cans and he did not
favor compelling people to adopt the
all-bottle method Continuing he said:
These are the reasons l am adverse
to the resolution First. the mere
bottling of milk does not make it free
from germs, and second in the clean
ing of the bottles at dairy without the
necessary machinery to sterilze them,
we know that milk has per-
centage of grease or rat; and if bot
tie is allowed to stand for a time it
will cling to the bottle and hot water
alone will not cut the grease, and
put the bottle in a clean condition to
be refilled. Fourth, the bottling of
milk means an extra load. The bot
ties equals that of the milk, also a
later delivery of the morning, and
extra labor, time and expense, which
it involves, for which all of the people
could expect to pay
DIRT AND DUST ON BREAD.
I'VE have other articles in the food
line that are carried about the city,
and sold to the consumer and handled
with less precaution and nothing said
of it, | call your attention to the de-
livery of bread in open wagons stack
up like cord wood, exposed to all dust,
dirt, and noxious odors, and meat
delivered under the same conditions,
only worse, fingered and handled by
who knows-perhaps by some one
from the sick chamber. Re-
alizing all this, without fear of con-
tradiction, conscientiously cannot see
where to draw the line. l would be
in favor to putting stop to this ex-
changing of milk upon the streets or
alleys of our city and refilling of bot
ties with milk under like conditions.
i-wish to be recorded as being adverse
to the proposition set forth in the
proposed ordinance"
Mr.. Zinninger digressed from his set
speech long enough to say that the
fact had come under his observation
| that in one instance bread from a
bakery stacked up on the sidewalk
like cordwood and dust allowed to ac-
cumulate on it it so thick that the de-
livery horse, mistaking the dust for
brown sugar licked it off with his
tongue. He did not believe milk could
possibly be delivered in a more filthy
condition, whether in cans or bottles.
MILK MEN HEARD FROM.
An opportunity was then presented
to the milk dealers to be heard and
j. L. Noaker, a well-known dealer in
milk, spoke for the dairymen. He
opposed the resolution on the ground
that the majority of people of Can
ton did not desire a change in the
milk regulations and especially dwelt
on the idea that disease could be
spread by dirty bottles much more
easily than from cans. He called the
boards attention to the necessity OF
an increase of price from six to seven
cents a quart should all dealers be
compelled to buy bottles and also
stated that it would be impossible to
keep milk cool during the time it
was being taken from the dairy to the
consumer. He did not believe people
in the better residence portion OF the
city would care to get milk in bot
tie that the day before may have been
in the hands of hunkies and others OF
the foreign labor element who were
not particular as to their sanitary sur
roundings.
j. j. Hang, dairyman who has for
years had many customers among the
first families said his trade did not
want milk to come to them in bottles
and that he could get every one OF
them to sign a petition protesting
against the passage of a resolution
under consideration.
CLARK ADVOCATES A CHANGE.
Attorney ]. j. Clark, who introduced
the resolution as a member of the
board at the request, as he stated, OF
a large proportion of the physicians OF
Canton, as well as many other people
in various lines of business, advocat-
ed in a lengthy address the adoption
OF the resolution. lie opened his re-
marks by asserting that fully one
third Of the deaths in this country
were of children under three years of
age, and that of this number 29 out
of the 33 were caused by impure milk.
He said that il was in the interest of
humanity that the present regulations
regarding the delivery Of milk to our
families should be amended in accord
with the resolution under considera-
'tion. He had given the matter much
thought and attention and had inter-
viewed many of the prominent resi-
dents of the city and he believed IL
was the duty Of the board of health
to heed their wishes. He ridiculed the
idea that the dealers could raise the
price of milk under agreement OF the