Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-04
LOCAL MILK SUPPLY
Regulation to Be Adopted by the
Commissioners.
SOME SUGGESTIONS MADE
Or. Woodward Points Out the Re-
quired Amendments.
MILK COMMISSIONS REPORT
All Matters Recommended to Be Sub
mitted to Corporation Counsel for
Official Consideration.
MILK CONFESSIONS REP0R

Several OF the recommendations made
to the Commissioners some weeks ago
by the special milk commission APP
pointed-to suggest remedies to better the
local milk supply i'll the District will be
adopted by the Commissioners in few
weeks. Other recommendations which have
met with approval will not be adopted at
once on account of the fact that congress
sional legislation Will be necessary.
Upon receiving the report OF the milk
commission DR.. William G. Woodward.
health officer, was asked by Commissioner
mcfarland to go over the recommendations
and point out what the Commissioners
should and under existing laws could do,
and what SHOULD be deferred until further
legislation. DR.. Woodward Yesterday made
a report TO Commissioner Macfarland upon
the question and the latter said that he
would recommend to the board of commits
sioners their adoption at once.
Dr.. Woodwards report is in the form of
comments and recommendations. He looks
upon the tuberculn test for mich cows as
the most important action in connection with
lettering the milk supply. considering it to
be the most necessary. In his report he
recommends that the following regulation
be promulgated for the governing of diaries
and dairy farms supplying milk to the Dis
trict Of Columbia:
Every person desiring to keep cattle for
the production of milk for sale, SHALL be-
fore a permit is issued to him, cause all
such cattle to be tuberculin-tested by an
inspector in the service of the health de-
partment of the District of Columbia or of
the United States Department OF Agricul-
ture. shall permit all such cattle as re-
act to that test to be permanently marked
at once and shall remove from the dairy
farm all cattle so marked and reacting."
Care of Milk Cans.
The necessity of keeping milk cans and
the other receptacles in which milk is de-
Evered covered at all times and free from
exposure is strongly urged by him. He
has suggested regula ton which requires
the person delivering milk to have all re-
ceptacles containing milk in excess of one
quart to be securely sealed by a leaden or
sealing wax arrangement, properly I'M
printed, SO that the breaking of the seal
will be necessary for the removal of any
part of the contents
The health officer approves Of the recon-
mendation OF the milk commission which
gives authority to the health officer to adj
Vertise for diaries and dairy farms. the
proprietors of which are willing to modify
their barns, stables, etc, so as to procure
certificate from him showing that the dairy
man is producing what is considered to be
certified milk The health officer in his re-
port says everything should be done to en-
courage certified milk.
What is looked upon an important rec
question is the suggestion that the Commits
sioners request the Medical Society of the
District of Columbia to procure the estab-
lishment of a laboratory under its super
vision for the preparation and sale of modi-
fed milk.
DIR. Woodward devoted considerable space
in mis- report to duties of consumers He
recommends that systematic instruction
with reference 10 the sanitary relations of
milk as an article of diet and to other
foods be made part of the curriculum of the
public schools of the District. The Com
mssioners will communicate this recon-
mendation 10 the board Of public education
However, before any of these recommended
tons or regulations are adopted and pro-
mulgated the Commissioners will refer
them to the corporation counsel of the Dis
trct for report as to their legal form and
any other advice in relation to them that
he might be able to furnish.
Milk Commissions Recommendations
II is understood that the milk conference
WILL during the coming fall. submit to the
Commissioners draft of such legislation
as the conference deems necessary to safe
guard properly the milk supply of this
District. and certain recommendations of
the conference looking toward increase
in the inspection force of the health depart
ment and an increase ip salaries will be
submitted to the Commissioners by the
health officer in connection with the annual
estimates of the department..
TIE recommendations made by the milk
commission to the Commissioners were the
result of a very thorough and exhaustive
investigation, but number of their
concentrations will not be taken up by the
Commissioners for the time being because
congressional legislation will be necessary
before they can be promulgated. In his re-
port DR.. Woodward referred 20 these. rec
ommenda tionS which will need legSl alton,
and explained them and stated why they
needed.