The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-04
COUNCIL MEETING
Important New Milk Ordinance
Has Passed at Last.
City Milk Inspector Explains
Its Good Points.
3 HOURS OF BUSINESS
Council Transaets Many Signifi-
cant Measures.
Another Attempt to Adopt New
Fire Laws.

AAOSAOE AbOOtuPG W AuVP1 NO"
Fire Laws.
The most important ordinance pass
ed by the city council for some time
was carried through with vote of IL
to / last night. The new milk ordin-
ance which has undergone so much
criticism during its rough course
through the council committees and
conferences with the dairymen has
passed at last. It has been explained
before and will soon be published in
the legal columns OF this paper. But
the general usefulness Of the ordin-
ance was explained by DR.. d. M. Camp
bell, city milk inspector, in an inter
view last night He said:
"The new milk ordinance is re-
markably sane law, entirely free from
fads Of every kind There is no section
the milk supply OF Topeka, and no sec
tion in it that is unreasonable. At least
one-third of the dairymen of Topeka
are complying with all OF its provisions,
best milk used in the city. What this
class of dairymen have willingly done
of their own accord for the betterment
of Topeka milk. others will be required
to do.
"There is no part of the old ordin-
ance repealed excepting that part re-
curing the payment of 81 per COW for
the registration. This matter of cost
Is so changed as to require the payment
on the milk sold in the city. and will
amount in the aggreEate to so cents a
year on the average COW. The new
ordinance will raise as much money for
the city as did the old one, this DIFF
ference between SO cents and 81 per
COW, being made up by the amount
being paid by the milk dealers, this
shifting OF the burden of the cost OF
the inspection, if the tax of 1-4Oth OF
a cent per quart could be considered
burden, from the producer to the dea-
Ter. is fair to all concerned. The new
ordinance imposes a tax OF ten cents
for every 100 gallons OF milk sold and
this tax to be paid each time the milk
IS sold, it will average about two times
for all the milk sold in the city.
1.-THE new ordinance specifically pro-
vides that milk containing sediment
cannot be sold in the city. 1t was pro-
baby unlawful to sell such milk under
the old law, as it cannot be classed as
other than unwholesome milk, the par
ticularizing in this respect cannot help
but be beneficial, and also the specific
requirements that milk should be cooled
to so degrees, by an oversight in the
old ordinance 1t required only bottled
milk to be so cooled. The section OF
the ordinance prohibiting bottling OF
milk in general stores and the hand
ling of bulk milk in general stores Is
the same as-the state dairy law. The
section requiring physicians to report
cases of typhoid fever, diphtheria or
scarlet fever to the milk inspector to-
gether with the names of the dairymen
furnishing milk to the family in which
the disease occurred. is an important
provision, and is enforced in many
cities. 1t is the purpose of the milk
inspector to keep list of these dis
eases, the most frequently carried by
milk, and when three or more cases
occur on a route of any particular
dairynan within a short time, that
dairy will be given very rigid inspec-
tion to find out if possible, If the infec-
tion is carried in the milk by reason
of its coming in contact with persons
suffering with these Diseases milk
utensils being in homes where these
diseases exist or cleansed in contami-
mated water.
''The section providing for the inspec-
ton of ice cream is the same as the
state law on the subject, and cannot
help being beneficial to both the manu-
facturer and the consumer. 1t requires
ice cream to be of a certain quality
and forbids the manufacturer putting
1t In rusty cans, or cans not properly
cleansed. On the other hand, it pro
hibits the consumer from allowing th'
cans to become filled with brine and
thus causing their rapid deterioration
THE tuberculln testing of milk COW!
Us nearly the same as the old Ordin
ance, two changes have been made
however, one Inat the testing must o.
done by the state live stock sanitaT.
commissioner, the other that the dairy
man must himself take initiation IL
securing the tests. Heretofore many o
the dairymen fearing they had dis
eased cows in their herd and Wishinl
to still sell milk from them just tn
same, have opposed and in petty way
hindered the tuberculin test by claim
ing they did not have feed ready t
keep their cows up, or that their BARI
was not in condition that they coul,
fasten the COWS, or that they had to b
away from home or other ways to max
things uncomfortable for the tests
From the large number of inspection
that have already been made, it is eVi
dent that by the first of next Octobe
enough dairymen will have their COW
tested to furnish ample milk for tn
city. The new ordinance provides tina
after the first of October. 1909, no mill
from any but unturberculin tested COW