New-York tribune., 1907-01-18
lDPURITY OF MILK.
" omen Hear about Its Gers, MIL
IONS and Fe7r INSPECTORS

Ferus of Our Milk Supply" was Tho s,,bIa,+
-, "p "N me Woman's Municipal League at its
u'aa ''H'''y meeting at its clubhouse No 10
-'h 9Uee" ana periious indeed was the sit1,-
noh pictured by William Writ Mills the nrncinoI
speaker Of the morning In the hest MIN, NJ MIL
mas oeen able to find, other than certified and
Pasteurlzed milk there are he saws over q Wilton
fc 80 ~ ule cubic centimetre. that is to every
''eeH drops' even in winter. From this the figures
~" UP 10 twenty-five millions for the better
grace OF milk. Some of these nerils ara mora da,,
gerous than others
. ne nave absolutely no assurance that any milk
"a ,liis city IS free from tuberculosis germs unless
- - paSteurIzed." Mr.. Mills said In no state
from which get milk is there any adaoua+A tes+
ioi TUBERCULOSIS. except New Jersey In New York
me inspector simply looks the animal over and
- lungs Ihere is little use IN this, because
the animal may have tuberculosis without the
lungs being affected A law similar to that Of New
Jersey would probably be opposed by the farmers
put IN New Jersey, where il has been administered
win great tact they have been almost completely
won over. The. government compensates them FOR
each animal killed to the amount of one-haIf Its
value and most of them would rather have a COW
destroyed on these conditions than run the risk of
injecting the rest Of The herd. 1 don't think that
the milk trust would oppose such a law. as It
doesn't, in most cases. own the dairies
Children the greatest sufferers from, i'm
pure milk. Mr.. Mills continued Much inex-
phcabie illness among adults is doubtless due to
this cause, but they better able than children
10 throw off the effects Of these countless Eerms
NO city in the world is doing as much TO relieve
poverty as New York We have made great i'm
provements in tenements and other conditions
ana yet our Juvenile death rate is higher than In
any other civilized city that I know anything
about except Washington and there are estiuated
10 be 10000 children in the schools who are suf-
fering from malnutriton. Much of this is un-
oountedly due TO our milk supply, and there will
never be any cessation in this constant poisoning
III we get inspection for something more than
the amount of cream. There are 10000 dairies
from which the milk supply comes. and only four
teen dairy inspectors. Even IL this force were
doubled II would be four five years before their
work would have any appreciable effect and mean
more effective method of dealing with the
problem would be to establish a minimum bacterial
to do Then every dealer would be turned into
an inspector and those who could not furnish raw
rasteurize il. The milk trust would probably op-
pose tnls because OF the cost Of pasteurizaton and
Should be inspected just water is, not at its
And the results of this inspection should be used
as a clew 10 the source of contamination.
IMPROVING the Condition OF the % PooT pro}ested
against pasteurization, and said that he thought
cent TO visit every dairy once every two months.
This he stated, would require an appropriation OF
100000 which his society intends 10 ask for. and
the president; Mrs. Richard Aldrich. assured him
ans Municipal League in so doing.
Mr.. Mills admitted that pure milk
prospect Of getting this % for While yet he CON-
siders pasteurization an Immediate necessity and
expressed a similar view
pr Josephine Baker. Of the Board Of Health
Darlington, she thought that the board would not
belief that the mix supply had improved Greatly
and was still improving and that Mr Mills Mad laid
tenement house mothers are more likely TO feed
% a6 Da5ies WIN t H i f Ct hing scboo @ bd Td
would think Of getting for its luncheon.