Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-07-02


officers opened in the Armory Tuesday
| morning at $50 o'clock with an in
creased attendance and an unusual a.
mount OF interest apparent ON the part
of the visiting health officers
IDEAL DA1RYlNG AND MILK.
TIL" fist paper presented at the morn
! ing session was one on the important
/ subject of Ideal Dairying and Ideal
MIR" by Charles Harrington, VI. D., of
/ Boston, secretary OF tn Massachusetts
state board Of health. Mr. Ha,r!ngton
| handled his subject in an instructive
way and brought the matter Of dirty mill,
and its causes TO the attention of his
listeners in Il forcible manner one OF
| the important points that Or. Harrington
brought out was the great mortality list
| OF infants in large cities caused ny bottled
| milk. Cows milk he said was the most
alien, dirty and poisonous food that could
be given infants. More than 30 per cent.
of the infants who die in the large cities
of foreign countries are victims of diseas-
cs caused by dirty milk or milk which
| is infected The same is true to a great
extent in our own country.
! The State of Vermont has a better rec
ord in this respect than any other In
tho New England states and Is only sur
passed among other States by Michigan
ana there only by one per cent Statis-
! ties show that in Vermont only ~ infants
out Of every 1000 die. their deaths being
due to many causes but the greatest
cause is that Of milk.
deal darYing Is not to be found any
where. even in Vermont, although this
state IS far ahead of some others in this
respect In compa ring this country with
others, Mr.. Harrington showed that while
England has more sanitary law than any
other country, the conditions that obtain
there in the matter of dairying are very
bad and do not compare in any respect
with those of the United States The
Germans are unable to apply their
knowledge of sanitary law and as a re-
suit have the second largest infant
mortality list in the world.
The speaker then outlined some of the
conditions found In the average dairy
of to-day. such as cows not over clean,
kept IN unclean stables and taken care
OF in many instances by men who nre
not clean. In many cases hay Is kept
stored overhead, milk pals and cans are
left standing about the stables, there
is much dust and dirt and as a result
milk which might otherwise be clean +
infected before it even leaves the dairy
The crude way of cooling the milk
is responsible to great extent for Chol-
era infantum among infants in the sum-
m"r, and In fact nearly every death
among very young children from this
cause can be traced to the improper
use of COWS milk or to infection arising
from the use of the milk.
The question. he said. Is what is to
he done about it. In Massachusetts
only abo..t 81 per cent OF the dairies
can he called even fair. while the con-
ditions found in Vermont by inspectors
are much better The Vermont diaries
supply a large amount of milk to the
Boston markets and the con
ditions found on the farms In this State
thus supplying milk are much better
than in most other States. or S5 farms
in this State sending milk into Boston
all were found very high In standard
from a standpoint of public health and
but very few diseased COWS have heen
found In closing. Mr.. Harrington said
that ideal dairying should be that which
produces milk 1T to drink without dang
CT to health, and in this connection the
matter Of race destruction or race saliva
ton was OF much more importance than
that OF race suicide 1t is OF little benc-
TT he said to increase the race II nothing
is done along these important lines tow
ards protecting the lives of infants
from death resulting from the use of
unclean milk.
Mr. Harrngton's address was OF the
I int ~ ha CT in hD
it pointed out what should be the idea
dalryiug by bringing to their attention
the defects In the present system.
Mr.. llarrington's paper was followed by
a lengthy discussion. opened by l.. p.
SpraEue, NJ, D.. food chemist at tho
State I.abolato Of Hygiene, who gave
n talk on the work of milk inspection at
the laboratory. the conditions found in
the vicinity of Burlington and some Of
the methods employed In making tests
An important question was raised by c.
G. Smith Of Manchester, who said he
| believed the farmer was not altogether
| to blame for the dirty condition of milk
! at times, as the milk cans used to shin
milk to the larger markets often came
back dirty and he raised the question as
to whether II was not the business of the
large contractor to return the cans In n
| better condition. This brought out the
| fact that milk Is sent about the larger
| cities in the cans In which it is shipped
and the cans are often used for other
purposes than that of holding milk. Many
| Of those who took part in the discus
sion stated that they had met with these
same conditions and had had cans re-
| turned In such bad condition that II was
| impossible to clean them. In closing the
discussion Mr.. Harrington said that there
was law compelling dealers to keep
cans clean and prohibiting the small deal
ers from using them for anything but
milk.
PUBLIC NUISANCES.
The next paper on the program was on
"Nuisances. How Cared For" presented
by S. e. Darling, NJ. D., OF Hardwlck
and taking up the matter of what pro-
perly constituted public nuisance In the
true sense Of the word. This Is a subject.
the speaker stated. which has concerned
the governmental machinery Of towns
and cities only recently Tho word
nuisance" means. literally speaking
annoyance or anything that IL an incon-
venience or damage to the public well
fare, 1t may fairly be said. therefore. 10
consist of the development OF the maxim