The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-22

At a JON. meeting Of the Board cf
Health and the Harbor and Sanitary
committee Of the City Council last
night, the pure milk ordinance, which
was introduced several weeks aga
and reIerred TO these bodies, waz
slightly amended to make it stricter
and will be presented to the City
Council tonight with a recommends
ton that it be passed.
Those present at the meeting were
Mayor Goodman presiding, City
Health Officer Bruce, Aldermen Roche
blave, Meyer and Ingraham and
Chairman Oliver OF the Board or
Safety.
The Ordinance.
/ The ordinance was read by Sec
tons and amended as thought neces-
Sary to obtain better results. Tha
first amendment was that all wagons
delivering milk shall bear the name
of the dairy Or proprietor in plain
letters, also the street and number.
If not in the city, the road on which
the dairy is located shall be named.
Another amendment was that no
wagon used for the purpose or deliv-
ering milk shall carry any water con-
tanned in any vessel.
Some of the members wanted to
embody in the ordinance a provision
for q special milk inspection, but
owing to the expense il was decided
not to amend this portion of the or
dinance, but to allow the City Health
Officer % assign one OF the present
inspectors as milk inspector in com
nection with his other duties.
The original ordinance contained a
clause that, should milk be found inn
pure, the inspector should revoke the
permit under which the dairyman
does business. This was thought to
be placing too much power in the
hands of an inspector, and an amend
ment was made giving the Board OF
Health the authority to revoke per-
mits for cause. Another clause,
which was stricken out entirely, was
giving an inspector authority TO ue-
stroy milk before it had been deter
mined as impure.
The Provisions.
The ordinance as recommended by
the joint conference last night pro-
vides that no milk can be sold by a
dairyman in the city unless he has
board of Health permit to do busi-
ness, and that before the issuance OF
such permit an inspection must be
made of the dairy. II provides for
an inspection by sanitary Inspectors
of both the premises and OF the milk,
and for taking samples of milk offer
ed for sale in the city, of which an
analysis must be made to ascertain
if impure. Should il be found to be
impure the arrest of the dairyman
will follow, and for the first ofYense
he shall be fined by the recorder and
for the second the permit issued to
him revoked, thus preventing him
from further doing business in the
city.
SKINNED Milk.
In order to protect customers of
restaurants and hotels, the ordinance
provides that if skinned or watered
milk is sold in any restaurant or ho-
tel, sign sufficiently large TO be-
plainly seen by all patrons shall be
displayed stating that it is Skinned
milk" No cream must be taken
from milk not sold as skinned
milk and II ii is, the proprietor of
such place shall be arrested and
fined
sThere are many other provisions
contained in the ordinance, which, if
passed ~ the council, will assumediy
insure parties buying milk OF its alb
sOlnte purity and cleanliness
The measure mas already been read
for the first time In the council, and
tonight il will be presented, and, IL
the recommendations of the commit
tee are adopted, will be amended and
read for the second time