The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-12-04

CONVICTIONS FOLLOWED 'ss'
MAJORITY OF ARRESTS.
Hideous Crimes Against ,Cleanli-
ness and Decency Revealed by
Gum Shoe Tour Of Inspector
Lu1on Among Diaries Supply-
ing Big City Retailers. -s = :

There is probably no movement OF
more vital interest to the wage earn
ers Of Duluth than the effort the
city's health department is now, mak-
ing to establish a clean and whole.
some milk supply for the city.
Health Commissioner Patton and
his dairy inspector, r. W. Luxon.
have left no stone unturned to weed
ou: from the dairymen supplying the
city with milk and cream, those who
were too negligent or too regardless
of human health to take the neces-:
sary precautions to see that the pro-
ducts of their dairies reached their
city customers in fit shape for con-
sumption. -" =, : =
Few among the city dwellers who
have milk delivered at their doors
each morning, appreciate the i'm
mense amount of physician labor and
watchfulness necessary to install
system of milk inspection and bring
it to the high state of perfection. (:
which DR.. Patton and Inspector
Luxon have attained. .,,<
Found Field Ripe for Action.
For years nothing had been done
along this line and the crimes com
mitted under cover of. the milk bust.
ness in this city were legion. s
So when the present health depart
ment proposed to set about righting
the wrongs OF the thousands who.
We're daily being supplied impure and
adu!terated milk, there was much op1
position encountered :. .s:5
But nothing daunted, the work was
. und ken and one of the first
principles established was that In en-
forcing the ordinance no persons
should be respected; the big dealers
were to be made to toe the mark as
closely as the man with only one or
two cows. Fl
This plan was even more closely
followed when it was discovered after
several months work that the larger
dealers were in the. main the chief
offenders and were more negligent
of the milk they brought to the city
than were the two-cow dairies in the
city suburbs .T ~
On the outset the campaign for
clean, pure milk was inaugurated
with rigid inspection of every dairy
supplying Duluth, with milk, no mat
ter how far distant. is. - s--.> Z. u
Made Gum Shoe Inspection. i
Inspector Luxon made a personal
visit to every dairy man whose milk
reached the city, and carried no brass
band with him to herald his coming.
The consequence was that many
dairymen were found delinquent in
the matter of cleanliness and In the
observance of the ordinary rules Of
decency in their dairies and cow
barns. y,
All of these were first warned and
| on repetition of the offense were for
hidden. from selling to dealers for
| city trade. f -
A system of merit marks was in-
stalled by Inspector Luxcn, by which
dairymen were made to see the adj
vantages of cleanliness and health
| precautions. AS each dairy was in
spected, the proprietor was given a
| card showing his dairy to be entitled
to SO many marks in the merit.
column. T. - Is. =
These marks were awarded for sew.
eral details connected with the milk
ing of the cows and the handling OF
the milk after it was taken from the
barn. 1 ss. ~. 3.:t> ::t>
~ A dairyman who Whitewashed his.
stables, who compelled HIS employees
to wear white duck suits during the
| milking hour, who washed his cows