Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-28
SALT LAKE INDICTED.

That much of the milk used in Salt
Lake City and environs is teeming with
bacteria can not be&disputed. That
the diaries there are filthy and poorly
kept can be easier demonstrated. This
fact Is even admitted by SOME of tht;
producers by the fact that they are
making use of preservatives. That
personalities are used can not be de-
MED, since to my horror. I found that
some of the milk handed out by some
of these dealers was 50 charged with
germicidal substances that bacteria
would not grow at all in 1t. When
milk does not sour when allowed to
stand in a warm place for three days,
it is time the milk man was kept In
the confines of the county Jail where
he might view his innocent victims
through the iron bars.
If woman puts strychnine in her
husbands food to shield herself from
further abuse, she is usually asked to
retire to the penitentiary or made walk
to the electric chair: yet these high
class criminal milk vendors are all
lowed to put poison into milk and thus
deprive many an innocent babe of life
and conSign others to misery and go
scott free. Which is the worst the wo-
man who kills the worthless husband or
the man who poisons an innocent child?
j do not wish by any means to belittle
call attention to the enormity OF the
crime of the latter.
What then shall be done2 The sol,i-
ton is not a difficult one. All cows
should be carefully Inspected by COM
petent men fairly often, the men Whn
handle the milk should be examined,
and the dairies cleaned up. 1nspec-
ton should never be entrusted to city
or state food inspectors who in 90 cases
out of 100 are fortunate sons of some
POLITICAL party and do not owe their
position to any merits of their own.
Close up the filthy diaries and If you
can not get clean milk. get together,
Organize companies and run sanitary
dairies on the cooperative plan. Pun
ish severely the man who puts milk.
from tuberculosis cows on the market
or allows youngsters to milk with -
hours dirt on their hands. Insist on
pure food 1t may raise the price OF
milk. but it will lengthen the lease on
life. am satisfied that people are
willing to pay more for milk, as II
comes fresh and uncontaminate from
the mammary gland than for the milk
that loses its taste for that of manure.
BEST FooD FOR BABES.
In conclusion, let me say to mothers
that breast milk is the natural food for
babes, The calf has peculiar stomach
to digest cows milk, hut the baby is
not provided with such a. complicated
apparatus. Nature did not think that
women would become so depraved as
10 turn the child over to the COW for
nourlshment until she was compelled
10 do SO. Breast milk is absolutely
sterile. Think Of the desperate effort
of some people to obtain fresh milk for
the baby When the mother herself could
furnish 1t With the freshest, the health
lest che best milk: milk uncontaminat-
ed With the dirty hands of mixers. the
filth of stables or unclean cans. Milk
free in most cases from the disease
producing bacteria. Milk suited to
the needs of The child. a child fed on
mothers milk is rendered more or
less immune to the attacks of measles,
scarlet fever, diphtheria, etc. When
it contracts these diseases they arc
usually of u nilder form than has the
child whose unhuman mother for the
sake of q demoralizcd society turns her
child over to the COW
Let me add that 1t is time that the
state board of health should be CON
tiolled by sanitarians and the Office
turned into a meteorological laboratory
where competent bacterioiogists and