The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-24


and indeed there is a milky way in
the ferry's wake. A few lessons oi
this kind are severe enough to prompt
right and fair dealing on the part ol
the dairy man. Fairness. in this
case, even though it is obtained by
force, is quite as acceptable as that
prompted by a true mind.
Over on the East Side there are
many milk raids. Some people will
not learn even by experience, and are
continually trying their best to de-
fraud their customers. A milk raid
on certain district is planned in this
way: An inspector buys pint of
milk from several different dealers
and takes it to the chemists at the
Board of Health Office for analysis.
When it is found to be adulterated. a
check is placed against tie store
keepers name. This is continued
until several poorly conducted shops
have been located, and then one
morning the raid is made.
The big milk wagon from whole
sale depot drives up to the door the
shopkeeper comes out to receive the
can, he pays the driver and then.
quick as lightning, a milk inspector
and an officer who have been con-
cealed in some doorway appear, rip
off the top of the can and empty the
milk into the gutter. Surely stran-
ger might think himself in veritable
land of milk and honey" An ex-
cited shopkeeper, a serious milk in
spector and a grinning officer stand
on the pavement and talk the matter
over. The license of this shopkeeper
has been revoked, and he must show
reason for the milk's adulteration
before he can again obtain right to
sell. The inspector then follows the
wagon up and when it stops at the
shops on his list he proceeds to repeat
his action.
If an anamic boy or sick man or
woman is found selling milk the Ii
cense is revoked. This is absolutely
necessary to guard against infection
Of the liquid. 1t is not uncommon to
find cans setting, uncovered, in one
of the living rooms back of an East
Side shop, and the members of the
family dipping into them with cups,
from which they have just drunk.
Even layman can comprehend that
this treatment of milk on sale to pur-
chasers is not only disgusting but abb
solutely dangerous.
One man had the assurance to tell
an inspector that the reason his milk
was one third water was because
''pipe in the refrigerator leaked" In
this case the license was revoked for
term Of four months and a fine i'm
posed.
The chemical laboratory of the
Health Department is equipped to
analyze all suspected milk. Anyone
suspecting his milk dealer of using
preservatives or otherwise adulter-
ating his milk need only present the
matter to the Health Department. A
sample is obtained and analyzed, and
if found impure the dealer is arrested.
In analyzing milk the city chemist
uses all necessary modern appliances.
In addition to the thermometer for
ascertaining temperature and the lac
tometer for the fats there is "the cen
trifuge," or separator, swift revolv-
ing machine on which has been
placed milk mixed with sulphuric
acid in Babcock bottles, SO adjusted
that the erapid whirling speedily brings
the fat to the top. An Adams ex
traction machine, with the aid of
ether, extracts the fat. Fat and flask
are weighed, and the percentage of
fat is determined, the balances used
being sensitive to the 1900, 900 part
of an ounce. The lead dishes used
in weighing are dried in an air bath,
so that not even a fractional bit of
moisture may render this result mac
curate.
The inspector of butcher shops and
meats has route to cover that is not
to be termed exactly agreeable. Over
on Barren Island, at one time, they
were slaughtering old and worn out
work horses. These horses were
bought for almost nothing, killed,
dressed and the meat sent to the shops
in the lower part of the city.
In France, people may eat and rel
ish horse flesh, but Americans have
not yet cultivated taste. or over
come a repulsion it causes them to
feel. However, horse flesh was being
sold, and it was some time before the
authorities discovered the fact. When
they did, many small dealers were
brought up in court to answer for
their conduct.
The inspector who discovered the
trade in horse flesh was making the
rounds down town. In looking over
a scrap box full of old bones, he found
one with which he was not familiar /;
asking the shopkeeper what kind of
a beef that belonged to, the reply
was "That1 Why, that's Jersey
steers bone"
Now, the inspector was certain
that, even if it was Jersey steers
bone, it could not possibly be that
shape, so he lugged the bone up to
the Board of Health office, it was ex-
amined by professor and found
to belong to some dead and gone
"Robbin.'
An investigation was Immediately
begun, resulting in the discovery that
unscrupulous people were slaughter
ing horses. These people were SEN
fenced to a long term in the work
house.
For tricks that are dark, and ways
that are vain, the heather Chinee
may have much credit, but it is hardly
to be believed that he would contrive
to blow his goose full of air and sell
it for nice fat bird. This is what
happens away down town, where
many families live in one room. This