Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-14
DOCTOR SAYS
DAIRIES KILL
MANY BABIES
Declares Mortality Is
AVOidable
Board of Health Flags Owners Of Un-
sanitary Milk Establishments,
Then Grants Them Ten
Days Grace

Ten dairymen we're grilled by the
board Of health yesterdt for maintain
ing dairies that fell below the standard
of cleanliness and sanitary perfection
which the rules require.
The board gave the offenders a severe
talk and wound up by allowing them
ten more days to put their establish
ments in perfect condition or suffer eX-
clusion of their proCuct from Los An
Eeles.
Dairyman Mcclure was first called on
and the charges read as printed in tull
I'm The Herald. He stated that he was
willing to do anything the board
directed
DR.. Dickson of the board then ad-
dressed the dairymen, saying:
1--WE represent the children here. Inc
children are dying because Of bad milk.
In the east where pasteurized milk sta
tions exist mortalit has been reduced
20 per cent. 1t is probably due to the
dalries that much of this mortality has
been caused. The neglect of dairymen
has destroyed lives.
1--WE are here representing the city,
trying to protect the people. AS long as
1 am on the health board the dairies
must be run right if it drives every
dairy in Los Angeles county out of
business. The rules Of the board must
be lived up to-"
Mayor Harper interjected that the
boards rules would be revised at once,
one in particular being that all udders
must be washed before the milking pro-
cess begins.
Owner Makes Defense
George Platt, representing his own
dairy, which was the only one not CEN
sured, and also representing the Lyn-
wood dairy. which was severely con-
demned, complained that the board had
not first notified the dairymen of viola
tions of the rules
1--WE take exception to the flamboyant
statements in the newspapers. We
don't think it is proper on the part of
the doctors," he said.
''It is the only way we can reach the
public" said DR.. Dickson. Heretofore
dairymen have gotten into slipshod
habits. We propose to make their names
public as protection f. honest and
clean dairymen."
Platt explained that conditions at
Lynwood were due to the fact that
Laguna ranch had just been rented, and
the removal had hardly been completed
when the board came. He said he did
not know that horses had to be stabbed
away from COWS under the rules
Both Drs. Powers and Seymour ex-
planned that government scientists had
found 400 fly larvae in quarter pound
of horse manure and only four larvae
in COW manure. Hence the rule COM
pelling the removal of horse manure
especially.
DIR. Moore here broke in with:
''I don't see the use of chewing the
rag further. 1 move thai the licenses
of these men be revoked until the rules
of the board are lived up to-"
Messrs. Newell and Dickson agreed
that because of the fact that this was a
new board, that the fact of absolute
cleanliness had been duly impressed on
them, it would be we'll to give them ten
days grace and let all dairymen know
the new rule.
"The trouble is these dairymen do not
believe in a hereafter" said DR.. Moore.
DR.. Dickson paid tribute to the
County Farm, whose dairy kept by one
man was in perfect shape even on rainy
days. Thirty-five cows are kept here