The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
The State Pure Food inspectors
Swnop Down on Milk Dealers
and Two are Fined
FIND CANS IN BID CONDITION
State Officials Notify Nearly all Dealers
In Milk in The City That They
Must Secure More Sanitary
Utensils for the Business

Members of the State Pure Food
and Dairy Commission and of the
State Chemists department invaded
sKenosha on Wednesday land as re-
suit of their visit the milk men of the
city are having the greatest cleaning
up ever known in Kenosha county to
say nothing of the fact that fifty dol.
lars has been added to the school
funds in the way of fines paid by
offending milk men.
The members of the invading party
consisted Of Inspectors E. L. Alder.
hold and ]. ID. Cannon of the Dairy
and Food Commission and State
Chemist A. E. Kundert. These three
men acting with DR.. ]. B. Spau1ding,
the city health Office made a most
searching investigation of the milk
business in the city. The work took
up all of Wednesday and a portion of
today but the work was we'll done aud
it is thought that the investig
made will result ia pure milk being
sold in Kenosha in the future. Fred
White and Abraham Krak were
arrested by the orders of the state
officials ION charges of maintaining
and both of them pleaded guilty to
the charges in Justice McCarron' S
court late Wednesday afternoon aid
paid the minimum fines of twenty
five dollars and costs. Five other
milk dealers were ordered to throw
the cans they were using way and put
in an entire new line while as many
others we're ordered to dump the milk
they were selling into the sewer and
get different sorts of cans that they
would be able to keep in a clean1y
condition.
There was scarcely dealer in the
city whose cans passed muster and
the wagons all have new cans this
morning. The men who were fined
pleaded that the condition of the cans
was the fault Of the farmers from
whom they purchased milk, but this
excuse did not go with the commits
sioners and the men were advised
that it was their duty to see to it that
the cans were cleaned regardless of
the people FROM whom the milk was
purchased. While the commissioners
and DR.. Spaulding were busy inspect
ing milk utensils the State Chemist
testing the milk taken from the
different milk dealers. Most of the
samples taken showed the legal
amount of butter fats but 10 some
cases there was decided indication of
watered milk. The men from whose
wagons the sam pies Of watered milk
were takeU we've warned this morning
but the Chemist declared that he
would rather find clean cans and
watered milk than filthy caus and
milk that passed every test demanded
by the state.
In speaking of he matter after the
tests had been made Health Officer
Spaulding said: 'sFor the past two
months there have been many cases of
intestinal trouble among the children
of the city and it was increasing at
such an alarming extent that the
health department made an inves-
tigation which revealed the fact that
the troubles of the children were due
to impure milk being sold in the city.
It would be impossible to describe
the filth that was found in some of
the milk cans from which milk was
being sold to customers IN the city,
and while it may seem little hard,
must say that there was not bunch
of cans that passed good inspection.
Some, of course, were worse than 9TH
ers, and am able to give the result
of the investigation as to every milk
man if any of the people desire to
know it. We found that two arrests
were demanded and the two men were
fined. They admitted themselves
that the cans were in bad condition.
/ hope that this visit of the commits
sioners will have good effect on the
Kenosha milk dealers, bit one thing
is certain, and that is that prose Gu
tons will follow any further infrac-
ton of the pure food laws"
This morning the commissioners Sc
cured samples OF milk sold to the
creamery and investigated the condi-
ton Of the cans in which the milk was
delivered, but no arrests were made.
The commissioners went from Keno
sha to Racine, where a similar inves-
tigation is being carried on today.
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