Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-08-06
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
EKJTNNa1F -
Last Nights Monthly Meet
ing.
Great Volume of Business Trans
acted: New Tax Rate Estab-
lished Giving Considerable
Reduction: Streets to be
Improved: Generous
Offer of Alderman
Borden and Fa-
Their.

The Board met in regular monthly
session, with Mayor Ormend presid-
ing. and Clerk Broadhurst at his desk. |
The roll call showed all the Aldermen
present as follows: Borden, Holmes, Glib
son, Gardner, Kofnegay, Taylor, Sugg.
Wrenn and We'll, w@1ereupon the Mayor
declared the meeting ready for the
transaction OF business.
The minutes OF previous meetings
were read and approved.
Rev. F. w. FAIRIES, president of the
Board of Trustees of the Goldsboro
Hospital, appeared before the Board
and reported that the physical condi-
ton OF the streets in the vicinity OF
the Hospital IS being both unsightly
and unsanitary, and urged that some
immediate remedy be applied. He
spoke also of the noisy gathering of
dogs at night in the vicinity and asked
that something be done to abate the
nuisance. This brought up quite a
general discussion on the,dog question,
and some sweeping motions were made,
but all ended-just as all dog suppress
ing bills in the Legislature-in the tri-
umph of the dog. Verify, the crying
need in North Carolina is men-men
in public ofic with nerve enough to
tackle and suppress the dog nuisance.
A committee Of citizens from the
heights, at b eastern terminus of
Walnutls street, { asking that Walnut
street from William street to SIocumb
street he put in better physical condi-
ton, and it was ordered by the Board
tina work be commenced thereon at
once
Dr.John Spicer, cityf physician, ap-
peared before the Board, and urged the
necessity of an official milk and meat
Inspection, and after ~prefacing his
viewswith some pertinent
read the following carefully prepared
and interesting paper, which the Board
listened to with close attention:
Since we have no meat and milk in
spector in our midst, and our comma
nifty is daily subjected to many dis
eases that occur from these articles as
is shown by many physicians who are
bOodJ dl WO1h Ch LAO prev IllOh u
diseases and not a cure, l have IA
short paper on milk as an article OF
diet for your consideration, and 1t is
not only a medium tor the growth Of
germs but as a carrier of diseases.
Milk, unlike other articles of food
stuff, cannot be pastuerized or preserv-
ed without modifying its digestibility
or increasing the danger of its use land
when used in the raw state. it is the
carrier OF many diseases, as I will en-
deavor to show in this short paper.
Next to bread, milk is more ext ten
any othersfood stuff.
It forms abortion of foods of almost
every person practically every day in
the year., and in this community we
have no means at the present time to
sell from what source it comes if from
a healthy or unhealthy COW; if she is
about to havef or just had a calf.
To the infant this is very important,
ms we havel evidence to show that
about 1-4eo1Sthe children of this coun-
try al large die during the first year
and about S5kper cent. of these children
are han or bottle.ted. Nearly halt of
all the deathssof children under a year
old are due to intantile diarrhea, which
would make uslthink the cause of in
fiction comes from the intestines due
to impure food.
It might be wise to state here that
since tha epactment of tho puro Eood
Law in 1895, the mortality has fallen
from 26. 9 per cent. to 1913 per cent,
to year 1904, and I have reason to be-
lieve that the mortality is less for the
last three years but haven't statistics
on hand at present to prove it.
Since DR.. Mitchell Taylor in 1857,
who was thekfrst man to show concIu-
sively that outbreaks of typhoid fever
were due to EaiIk coming from certain
dairies, much work has been done in
this line.
In 1900 DR.. Kober presented to the
Paris, 1875 outbreaks of typhoid fever,
80 of scarlet fever, So of d~iphtheria, all
traceable to the milk supply. It has
been demonstrated that disease pro-
duc1ng germs many not only live but
multiply in milk, it being a suitable
soil for nearly all disease producing
germs.
OF the many diseases thai occur in
the COW tuberculosis stands at the
head. !
Since Koch discovered this affection
and stated that it was the same, both