The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1908-04-13

or ten Years from 1901 10 IS9i-WdS
i,O10. From 1897 to 1906 in the same
month Of July. after the inspection
came into force. for Alb.
United States Compared with the Old
WorId-slime, Etc. in Milk
1t has been estimated that the citi-
zens of New York eat daily ten tons
OF barnyard filth and refuse in their
milk (and this with inspectors). This
amount must be exaggerated, since
Berlin is said TO furnish it's inhabi-
tants but 300 pounds of COW dung in
its daily milk supply, and, allowing
a wide margin for our native progress
siveness, we could hardly be credited
with beating the Germans so tremen-
dously in this international filth con-
test
Certified Milk
Boston -. -. ...... 800, 000-c.c.
L. S. Standard minimum 30,00O--c.c.
Albany -. -. S0,0O0-c.c
Rochester and N. Y. City 30,000-c4c
Philad'a and Milwaukee,. 100000.
"There is comparatively little COM
plant about the quality of the milk
served in New York. for the depart
11ent of health is very strict in its in
spectiOn and the police magistrates
impose heavy fines upon milkmen
who violate the law. According to
the official statistics $4,000 inspec-
tons were made last year. $500 sam
pies of milk were analysed in the lab
Cratories, nearly $4,000 gallons of i'm
pure milk were dumped into the sew
ers, 700 arrests were made and $16,-
600 in fines collected. The sanitary
code is very strict. 1t requires that
all milk shall be pasteuriZed and that
the 10000 or 10000 dairy farms which
supply the river Of milk that is con-
stantly flowing into this place must
be conducted in neat and whole
some manner. Indeed, it is said that
the enforcement OF the law which
prohibits the adulteration of milk by
water is in a great measure respon-
sible for the increase OF price"
! In New York
In New York thirteen and one half
million gallons per month-2k times
as much as London.
Next to air and water, milk is the
chief dissemination of disease.
In order for the individual to live,
he must have air and water. In or
der for the community to endure
under our modern American cOndi-
lions, lit must have milk, since infancy
i'll the altering phases Of existence
must depend on bovine support.
The Importance of a good breath
ing supply has long found emphasis
I'M the records of our death ratio from
and the intelligent war
which for years has been waged
against foul air is beginning to have
it's effect in a slow lessening of the
tuberculosis figures.
Water protection--a lesson which
folly has learned by the costly expe
renee of typhoid fever-promises
eventually to become a universal
science But guardianship of the
third most important thing in public
health-milk-is yet in it's infancy.
Hence, the value of the definite object
lesson, such as the municipal expert
ment in Rochester, N. Y.
For those two months of every year
when heat and bad food bring the
infant mortality to it's highest point.
the city of Rochester sells milk to
all corners.
Because it's customers are people
who formerly fed their families on
bad milk, the death rate for children
under five years Of age, for the hot
months, has been more than cut in
half
Rochester's milk movement began
ten years ago, when the health Off
Ger, DR.. George w. Golen, studying
the city's mortality statistics, was
struck with the prevalence of fatal
GiseaSes-mainly inteStinal-amOng
children under five years of age, in
the months of July and August This
thing is wrong" he said. Lets see
what is the matter"
He knew the water supply was
pure, and the sanitary condition Of
the city was fairly good, and that he
must look elsewhere for the cause Of
infant mortality. He hit upon milk.
Investigation of dairies, followed by
analyses of milk samples, convinced
him that he was on the right track.
Power to better conditions in the
dairies was his. Increased capacity in
inspection improved matters, and
made great many people extremely
indignant, but was only a palliative,
and not a cure
The remedy seemed far to seek.
After eliminating all unsanitary
conditions from the existing dairies.
and establishing others of like sur
rOundings, his next inquiry was the
condition of the cows.
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