The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-25
INSPECTION
Of DIARIES
How the Various Milk Depots
Are Kept by the
Owners.

An interesting report on the dairies
of Honolulu was presented at yester-
| days meeting of the Board of Health
| by Food Commissioner Duncan. The re-
| port was referred to committee TO
| frame rules and regulations. The report
was as follows:
| The matter of sanitation and the
| proper inspection of diaries has recently
| peen made matter of investigation III
/ Honolulu. In order that the Board OF
| Health may know just what has been
I done TO improve the Honolulu supply. l
| beg. 20 present short report dealing
/ with some of the important aspects OF
| the subject.
/ There are no laws and rules and reg
ulations governing the sanitation of
| daIrles and the sanitary handling and
! distribution of milk. These usually pre-
cede any attempt to improve dairy con
] disions and we were, therefore. compel
| led to begin our work without any spe-
cife ideal in view other than TO first
/ correct some of the most insanitary
! practices and conditions. Even with
| the handicap of no rules, etc, to guide
| as, beginning was made toward the
general improvement of conditions in
/ the fall of 1906, when by personal IN
! terTIew and correspondence, some of the
! largest dalrymen assured me that they
/ believed IN clean milk and would volun-
| tarily cooperate with the Board of
! Health in improving conditions. a
number of diaries were improved and
undesirable features abandoned. The
Legislature of 1907 provided a milk
and dairy inspector and in July, 1907,
this man began work, first under the
| supervision of President Pinkham, la
ter under the building and plumbing
inspector and, finally, during the past
year, entirely under my charge. With
the appointment of a dairy inspector
the work Of improving sanitary eondi-
tions. method of milking and care of
milk has gone steadily forward; lag
i ging somewhat at times because, with
out laws or rules to fall back upon, we
| had no effective method to push the
| work. In spite of this the present con
ditions of our dairies will compare most
| favorably with that of any city of its
i size.
To systematise the work of inspection
| and to keep detailed record of each
L HdFt SNVhi VI
! semiannua1 reports of our dairy inspec
tions From these reports l beg to call
your attention to some of the improved
conditions in our fortyfour dairies:
Thirty-seven have cement floors IN
the milking sheds.
In - diaries the mixers wash their
hands before milking.
In % dairies the udders of the cows
! are eleansed.
In % diaries the floors are swept
] daily.
i In 10 dairies the floors are washed
daily.
| In II diaries the floors are washed
| occasionally.
| In SO dairies the walls, ceilings, etc,
are kept free from dust, etc.
In % diaries the stables are white
! washed semiannually.
In dairies the stables are white
! washed annually.
In diaries the stables are not white
washed.
/ In regard to pure water supply, uni
| versally considered one of the indis-
| pensable conditions for diaries, we have
to report that 80 diaries use city water,
| 3 use well water and use spring water.
| The spring and well water supply has
| heen Investigated and found to be not
| liable to contamination.
Regarding disposition of manure, at
the time the report was written. all
| dairies removed manure to a distance
of at least % feet from the barn. At
| present two or three have piles close
TO the barn.
The above details are in contradis-
tinetion to the conditions of two years
ago when it was the usual occurrence to
use any available supply of water, filthy
methods of milking insanitary milking
sheds, dirty utensils, surroundings OF
the barn in insanitary condition and ne
proper place for storing milk and milk
utensils.
; improvements in dairy conditions ev
erywhere have usually made slow prog
ress II seems that the Board OF
Health. working without rules. etc. ha:
done considerable in improving the Ho
nolulu supply.
There are at present seven or eight
dairymen who have not the method;
or facilities for producing fairly clear
milk. For the consideration of these
cases. ana, also, for the consideration OF
the milk supply of Honolulu as whole
, | respectfully request that a committee
be appointed
About two years ago DIR. Pratt anC
myself inspected all the dairies in Ho
, nolulu. / herewith present some photo
| graphs of the stables in use at that
time. 1t is hardly necessary to say
that these buildings are not now used
for the production of milk.
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