Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-07
Nauseating Details Are
Given in Report Of
Inspectors
Names Of Farms Are Made Public
Where Filthy State of Barns and
CorraIs Is Declared to Be
Inexcusable
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o DIRTY DIARIES MUST
o CLEAN UP OR SHUT UP {


@. Last night Mayor Harper de- @
@ clared that he would probably call @
@ "A special meeting of the board of @
@ health today to take immediate @
O steps towards enforcing sanitary @
@ regulations In the dairies visited @
@ Sunday where lax conditions were @
@ fOud to exist. @
O. "They will be told to clean up @
@ and keep clean or no more of their @
g milk will go on the market" said @
@ the mayor. @
1--WE will never drink another glass
of milk till conditions in the dairies are
remedied," said Drs. Seymour, Dickin-
son and Moore almost in one breath
yesterday at the meeting of the board
of health after they had presented
their report concerning a visit to a
number of dairies Sunday.
1t was a revelation to them and as a
result of this official inspection dirty
dairymen may expect but little quarter
at the health boards hands during the
Harper administration.
The members went at random, with
DR.. Powers and Inspector Hood as
guides, going to dairies just beyond the
city limits. What they saw made them
shudder.
Drs. Seymour and Moore will go be-
fore the finance committee of the coun-
ell Saturday morning and make plea
that funds be found for at least one
more milk inspector.
Filth Found Nearly Everywhere q
The report as read was as follows:
"We a committee of the board of
health, consisting of Drs. Powers Dick
son and Seymour Mr.. Hood and my
self, beg leave to submit the following
report of few dairies inspected by our
body on March 8.
"These dairies are all outside the city
limits, but supply certain so-called
dairies which deliver milk to the city
trade We visited in all ten dairies,
inspecting as far as possible stanch-
ions, milk houses, coolers, corralS ana
the herd.
"A. Mcclure & SOMA. Mcclure &
Son, ranch about two miles from the
city limits, was the first dairy visited.
We found the stanchions in a deplor-
able condition; manure and filth around
about the COWS which were standing
ready to be milked. The COWS were
dirty, udders and teats of the majority
of cows bespattered with manure. One
COW which was milked the same as
the healthy cows had a lump on her
upper jaw, the nature of which could
not be determined. The corrals were
filthy, showing lack of care.
"Platts-Platt's dairy was next vis-
tied. We found the farm in fairly good
condition, the milk cooling room being
we'll arranged, but the receptacle made
to receive the milk was not we'll pro-
tected. This should be properly
screened to prevent carrying flies, ETC.,
from the outside air into the milk as 1t
passes through the cooler. We found
manure dumped too close to the
stanchions, offering a possible means
of injecting the milk before it leaves
the barn.
Filthy Conditions Found
'Lynwood dairy-The Lynwood dairy,
owned by Mr.. Sessions and considered
as one of the farms of the Belle Ver-
non dairy, was next visited. We found
the farm in a miserable condition. The
excuse given was that they had lately
moved into their new quarters and
they could not find help to do the work.
The stanchions were dirty and the
drains were in a filthy condition. A
temporary drain leading from the
stanchionS to pool of water where the
cattle were allowed to drink was poorly
constructed. 1t did not have the proper
fall necessary, allowing filth to accu-
mulate around the car barns. Horses
were kept within ten or fifteen feet
from the stanchions. We also noticed
cow manure in the horses stable,
probably meaning that some of the
cows were MIXED there. A vile SMELL
ing water closet was within twenty
five or thirty feet of the stanchions.
Many flies must necessarily carry the
filth to the milk that we consume. The
milk house was fairly we'll protected,
but the cooler was small, inadequate
to cool the amount of milk that must
pass over 1t. The entrance to the
cooler was not protected. The lack of
care to the farm is attributed to the
lack of labor.
Gentlemen, are you surprised at
this, when three employees sleep in a
room of about 15X20 feet, dirty and
poorly kept, with no means to wash
save at the faucets in the yard, with
a bath tub adjoining the milk house?
II asked one of the employees If the
men who cleaned the barns MIXED the
COWS. He replied Yes admitting that
the cows were MIXED first and the
stanchions cleaned out afterward.
These men with the same clothing.
probably Worn for days, clean barns,
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