The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-10
SAMPLES OF MILK
UNFIT FOR FOOD
Death Of Two Babes Indirectly Due, 1t
Is Said, to This Impure Food.


Salt Lake, August 1o-Impure milk
from Howard G. Hatch dairy at Woods
Cross is believed by City Food Inspec-
tor Walter j. Frazier and his assoc-
ates to have been at least indirectly
responsible for the death OF two In
fants within an hour last Saturday and
TO be the cause of the present Illness
OF two or three other babies in the
city
The dead babies are.
Arthur. the 4-months-old son OF W
F. Houghton, 221 North Fifth West
street
Lorena, 10.monthS-old daughter of
E. w Cools, 521 West Third North
street
The i'll babies are: Another In
fant in the Cools home and an In.
fant in the home of s. A, Tiger. 227
North Fifth West street, 1t Is believed
that both Of these will recover.
In each case the children that died
became i'll suddenly and went into con-
vulsions. dying before medical aid
could be procured. The cause of
death in each case Is given in the re.
port TO the city board of health as
acute gastrointestinal infection, or
summer complaint
Unfit for Food.
The Houghton infant had been fed
with milk from Howard e. Hatch's
dairy for two months and when the
matter was reported to City Food In
spector Frazier he Immediately col
lected a sample OF the milk and sub
mitted 1t to State Chemist Herman
Harms for an analysis. This was late
Saturday afternoon and Mr.. Harms tin-
ished the test Monday noon. Here
Is what he says in his report back
to Mr.. Frazier about Howard &
Hatch's milk:
The two samples of milk marked
Howards dairy, handed me. possess
disgusting, sickening odors and also
show considerable sediment, rendering
the milk. in my opinion, totally unfit
for human food"
AS soon as Mt Frazier received the
result OF the analyses he started for
the dairy at Woods Cross, but In North
Salt Lake met one of Howard &c
Hatch's delivery wagons coming into
the city with twenty,four quarts of
milk for delivery here. This milk,
with forty-three quarts more consigned
to Howard Bros dairy, which is this
side OF Howard & Hatch's plant, was
conf1scated and poured into the streets.
Before destroying the milk, however,
Mr. Frazier selected two samples. one
of Howard & Hatch and the other
from Howard Bros, and submitted
them TO Chemist Harms for analyses
Shortly after noon Mr. Harms was
through with the tests and submitted
the results TO Mr.. Frazier. showing
that the milk from both dairies was
totally unfit for human consumption.
Here Is MI Harms report:
The two samples of milk marked
Howard Bros, and Howard & Hatch
handed rue this a m. show very large
amount of detritrs, rendering the milk
in my opinion, totally unfit for human
food
Mr.. Frazier Immediately got busy.
The two dairies were ordered TO clean
up. under penalty OF being put out OF
business. so far as Salt Lake City is
concerned They were ordered to get
rid of brass milk pals and use mar
row-top milk pals. use two layers of
cheese cloth, with an intervening lay
CT of cotton batting, In straining the
milk, turn their COWS out of the un.
clean and poorly ventilated stables and
milk them in the open, and to make
water connections with their milk
houses as rapidly as possible. If they
do not do these things by the time
the inspector makes his next trip they
will be barred from selling milk In
Salt Lake City, Mr.. Frazier declares.
The bottles were found to contain
sediment from the milk at the bottom.
besides which the milk Itself was all
the way from Is to 20 degrees higher
in temperature than ii should have
been. The maximum temperature un"
der the new milk ordinance Is SO de-
grees Fahrenheit. while the tempera-
ture of the samples of milk taken
ranged from 20 TO rs degrees, the In
spector says. This temperature con-
stitutes In itself a distinct menace to
health. Mr., Frazier says.
Some of the milk dealers are at
tempting TO lay the blame for the
high temperature of their milk onto
the shortage in ice Some of the Ice
dealers are reported to have declared
that after August 20 they will discrlm-
mate against dairies and refuse to sell
fee to them for the reason that there
will not be enough to go around, but
Mr. Frazier says he will see about
this The health of the city is more
important than anything else and the
temperature of the milk must be kept
down to within the neIghborhood of SIS
degrees and the city authorities may
take a hand in the matter II the ice
men refuse to sell ice to the dairies.
MI Frazier further has the shrewd
suspicion that the milk men can obtain
Ice for their milk II they really want
to- Much OF the talk that the ice men
Will refuse to sell to them looks liko
a hot jolly to Mr. Frazier.