New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-28
PLANS PURE MILK WAR
HEALTH BOARD TO act
Inspection To Be Thorough-No
Ban on Pasteuri2ation.

The Health Department Of this city is not ready
% state its position regarding the milk supply and
70 not going 10 be hurried into an expression until
everything is ready for the carrying out of its
plans The inspectors still busy and there Is
Intention to call them OF. Health Commissioner
Darlington declined to say anything definite yes
feTdsy. He admitted that he and his assistants
vers busy preparing for the seasons work II
would not be long before the dealers would know
tust where the department stood but this stand
would be based upon as exact knowledge as could
be secured. and this part Of the work has not been
completed.
Il is generally conceded that the department viii
coms out strong for inspection This does no,
mean that pasteurization will be opposed. Thorough
inspection, il is claimed. will work toward ,tirrs
pure, clean. raw milk Where dairy owners can
not afford 70 make the improvements that the de-
partrnsnt Will demand, pasteurization way Re en-
forced But i is said 70 be the intention Of the
Health Department TO prevent the word pasteuriza-
ton meaning practically impure milk made fit 10 use
This would put the ban on pasteurized milk so far
as The general consumer Is concerned. In CONVEX
satlon Win members Of the New York milk com
mttee and others. DR.. Darlington has repeatedly
said that he Is not opposed 10 dissemination He
s quoted IS saying that he in favor Of pasteur
iEaion o. the whole supply for children especially
IN summer and especially for those in the tene-
ment house districts.
When the time comes for ac+ion - g. -.,-,-. -
tain that The department will ask for means N odd
about eighty inspectors TO its present force That
VII cost about $4,000 Z year, IN addition 10 what
the work costs at present. This Will enable the
department 10 keep il fairly close touch with the
forty thousand diaries that supply the CITY
The Health Department is fighting clear OF the
question Of taking over the milk depots in the
city that are now supplying the East Side with
psstelrlzed milk Il does NOT wish to 90 into the
MIX business, as man in close touch with the
department said yesterday He said further mai
~ Nouio re rather o1d spectacle 10 have the de-
barIIient control large part of the trade IN
oPPoslgon 70 business directly under it's control.
AZ. Inward :. Brush, the Mayor OF Mount Yer
n9i. hes oeen reused TO take q hand in the fight
Joy pure milk He said yesterday:
t4aEe oeen stGoElng the milk question for thirty
psSteuT1Zeo milk must be Classified win - nDef
looos, ana comes under the same heading as EN-
me EaSteurlZalon Of milk is 10 acknowledge our
llaoliltF 70 De clean and raise healthy COWS pro-
ouelng clean, wholesome milk
~ len Inc people come 10 know that ,rlzed
germs which al the time destroys the vital
ity OF the milk, lowering very materially the nII-
IlLlFe Ns-ue OF this fluid, and when they come TO
-Ii1etstsI2o Ilis proposition q tTuism. they will
-stolaI4y ask y hy DO not the health authorities
cuthf-4 re laLkTlau to produce clean wholesome
IAliA. i can DC done But not for the two or
lIs cents quart that the dairynan gets from the
M-0!5sale dealer The lniddlemau and the com
man tne poorly paid dairyman, or the INCOMPETENT
-ueIos OF health, no fail TO inspect the diaries
al.o enforce proper sanitary conditions.
believe the chief o ne Health TJera-f r1eut oY
NeW York City Is ii favor Of a rigid dairy Inspec-
uon because 1 know that he believes that pure
lncontsnnated milk can Be produced. but Il IS a
cog, extensive and wears me task TO inspect and
rep under sanitary all Of the sources Of
tne mix supply Of New York City. and would en-
SsiI an enormous expenditure Of the public funds
-NeNeTJneleFs. II should be done."