The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-06-13
new JERSEY TO
HAVE PURE MILK
Regulations Soon to Be En-
forced Strictly All Over
the State
CIRCULAR DISTRIBUTED
PROVISIONS OF THE NEW LAW
AND SYSTEM OF SUPERVISION
RECOMMENDED.
Especial to rrhe Jersey city News.")

Special to 'sThe Jersey City News.")
TRENTON, June IL, 1906.-The
week circular on "clean milk" explain
ing the proper method of producing, stor-
ing and selling milk. The circular con-
tains the new creamery law about which
there is so much general inquiry, because
of its affecting many buildings in Lang ee
cities.
Chief Inspector of Food and Drugs
George w. Mcguire last week said:
most successful in handling the milk
question and the decrease in the death
rate of young children from diseases born
in milk attest the efficiency of the work.
The board this year goes further in the
new creamery law, which was passed by
the last Legislature and approved by
Governor Stokes April 20, 1906.
'sThere are 126 creameries in New JeB-
sey; that is, places where milk is rS-
ceived in quantities. stored and finally
shipped to market wholesale. Under the
new act many buildings in large cities,
such as Newark. Jersey City, Paterson,
Trenton, Camden and where milk is sold
at wholesale, become creameries for the
purposes of the act. That section of the
act reads as follows: The word cream
ery'' as used in this act shall be con-
strued to mean any establishment where
milk is received or stored for sale OF dis
tributed by wholesale, or for the manu-
facture of the same into butter, cheese,
condensed milk or other foods for human
beings
''Ths means that under the act about
90 more places than the 1875 creameries
must be licensed and come under the di-
rect workings of the law which goes in
''Under the act human habitations
must be divorced from milk rooms, to
the end that milk may be as free from
contamina ton as possible. / have seen
instances where children We're i'll with
scarlet fever or diphtheria and the rooms
in which they were so i'll with such con-
tagious diseases would be cons1eS d with
creameries in which were stored thou
sands of gallons for distribution to the
large cities. The rooms connecting
would allow the persons conducting the
creameries to come where the milk was
direct from the sick room, reeking with
germs of disease.
'.It was to stop these things that the
new law was passed and more stringent
regulations put on the business of milk
production and distribution The board
recognizing that milk was one of the
greatest developers of germs, will make
the new law one of the important parts
of the inspectors work this summer.
THE act says, relative to the handling
| of milk: No person or persons, firm OF
corporation, buying or receiving milk OF
cream for the purpose of selling tbs
same as such, or for manufacturing the
same into cheese butter, condensed milk
or other food for human beings, shall
place, store or keep the same in any vat
tank, can, bottle, vessel, utensi or other
building or structure in which milk OF
cream is intended for sale, shall be pro-
vided with an abundant supply of pure
and wholesome water and adequate fa-
cilities for the cleansing of all recepta-
cles and utensils employed in handling
milk or cream The interior surfaces of
the walls and ceilings of all such build
ings and structures shall be smooth and
U0 hCpJ llCt lIOul uuSt ne AOOAS Va
all rooms in such buildings in which
milk is received or kept or handled shall
be impervious to water, and the surfaces
shall be graded so that waste fluids will
flow into water-tight drain and be fin
ally disposed of in manner which will
not create nuisance No portion of
any creamery building shall be used as
dwelling nor a laundry or kitchen.
in the clean milk circular to be sent
out by the state board of health this
week there is a great mass of informa-
tion for everybody. because of the uni
versal consumption of milk. The state
board will say
.sThe decrease in recent years OF
deaths from the diarrhoeal diseases pf
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