Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-15
Doctor Members Prepare First
Glass Document as Safeguard
For Public Health
ADOPTED WITHOUT DtssENs'oN
Provides for Licensing and Registrar
ton Of All Persons Selling Milk or
Milk Products Within the City - IS
Exhaustive and Covers the Ground
Well.

Altho it took the city council from
o'clock Monday night until l2;1e
this morning to dispose of the accum-
ulated business Of the regular month";
" and quarterly sessions, the meeting
was not without results. One impor-
tant bit Of legislation was transacted
In the adoption OF milk ordinance
regulating and controlling all persons
selling milk and its products within
the corporate limits, and providing
for an inspection of all cows. The
ordinance was adopted without a dis
senting vote, with all members pres
ent.
While there was more or less use
less argument over trivial matters
that took up time without accom-
plishing anything, the milk ordinance
alone was worth the effort. To be
true, one member In the press gallery
wearied by the discussions on specifi-
cations, ct al, went to sleep and snored
so vociferously that the dignity Of the
chair was overcome. The result was
the shying Of memorandum pad
which took the dreaming Bohemian
squarely between the eyes, and caused
rude awakening.
Doctor Members Prepare II.
The doctor members Of the coun-
ell, Devine and Jay. prepared the new
ordinance, which Jay introduced. II
deals with the situation comprehen-
lsiyely, and is patterned after the New
York City ordinance governing the
sale Of milk. 1t provides for the IL
censing and registration Of diaries. the
control and testing by tuberculin tests
for tuberculosis, and outlines rules
governing all persons selling milk and
milk products within the corporate
limits of the city.
Text Of the Ordinances.
The text Of the ordinance, in brief,
il as followsg
Every person selling milk, whether to
one customer or a hundred, must fur
nish the mayor with the number of
cows in his herd, and his place of res
idence; also names Of others from
whom he purchases milk TO supply his
customers, If any. A competent veter-
mary. in good standing with the state
board of health, will be employed to
take charge of the inspection, which is
to begin at once upon the adoption OF
the ordinance. and continue thereafter
once each year, not later than April 1.
When an additional COW is added to
the herd it must be inspected and
tested at once, unless said animal has
been tested within the year when in
custody of its previous owner. A GER
tificate Of health will be issued to the
owner when the test is made.
Cost Of the Tests.
The license fee is made to cover only
the cost to the city, .$2.15 for single
head, or up to fifteen. Persons owning
single COW, or two or three, may join
with neighbors in making up the re-
CURED fifteen, and for the wholesale
testing price of $16.S7A will be made.
For over fifteen cows the price has
been fixed at $1.127a per head.
Disease Means Quarantine.
& IL any disease is found in herds, or
single cows. no milk or milk product
will be allowed to be sold within the
city until the said animal is disposed
of. When all danger is past permit
will be granted by the mayor to re-
sumo business. Contagious diseases In
the families of dairymen or persons
selling milk will also result in are
fusal to permit the sale Of milk, from
the premises until the patient has re-
covered. Sanitary conditions Of the
premises where milk is gathered Is
also given consideration in the ordin-
ance.
Milk Must Test Well.
Milk testing less than per cent but
ter fat will not be permitted to be
placed on sale, and all cream must test
IS per cent butter fat. No milk above
a temperature Of so degrees can be Of
fered for sale. Adulteration Of milk
will result in its being condemned and
destroyed. The mayor will make re-
port to the board Of health Of all IL
censes granted.
Fines Will Be Imposed.
A fine of not less than IS will be
imposed for any violation of the ordin-
ance. The maximum fine is placed at
800. Imprisonment in the county Jail
not to exceed thirty days, will be i'm
posed upon failure to pay the fines.
Upon the first reading Of the ordin-
ance the rules were suspended and the
ordinance passed to its final adoption.