The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-09-23
PURE MILK QUESTION.

There hardly any question earnestly discussed by eastern
exchanges than that of milk supply for the cities fight is
being very provisions of which
the Honolulu milk ordinance most bitterly opposed These are
the imposition of the uberculn last for dairy cattle
Philadelphia is present in the toes of strenuous battle for
pure milk One dealer IN that city lately ISSUED challenge TO e
other leaders, offering dey half the expenses for holding public
test of milk in the Academy Music Counter charges were flung
back the challenger Mr. supee and his charges were to be taken
up in the Milk Exchange.
namely that Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Agriculture
0qG years So @ se 5 a e De emar wo go "S
good today because in the interval of four Philadelphia has
not !" pG @ as Po de Continuing Mr. Suppee said a" quoted
For example Philadelphia compare today in the Pecau
Milwaukee Rochester of many other cities which have
dealt o most mGGe@T or with ad S milk problem d .dond and
forced the ercun test on all dairy cattle producing their milk
respect that actual indicated that per all the
cows which furnish milk to Philadelphia have tuberculosis
at has further been demonstrated by Doctor Ne and the Bureau
Of Municipal Research that 50 per cent of the milk supply of Pha
is infected with dirt and nOXous bacteria 1t also true that
the methods for producing transporting and delivering the milk sup
ply of Philadelphia obsolete unantar and unsuited furnish
ing pure supply.
Then the challenge public The carrying
the interview contains the following which
temperature question difficulty elsewhere
the milk ordinance pending:
Ihe statement made by the Bureau Municipal
at least so cent of the milk sold in Philadelphia rege
aed temperature of 80 degrees disputed yesterday
the militant members OF the exchange who replied that cooling below
temperature of So degrees is positive hardship upon the shipper
babies thatd every week killed by impure milk general
indignation among the dealers to whom the name of the Re
search Bureau is becoming as red flag to bull"
Dr. Charles E. Fife president of the Pedisrc Society of Pha
depa is quoted charging the high mortality during the
summer to impure milk supply, adding:
Most of the ordinary market milk sold in this city
of impuy that it typhoid tuberculosis
stomach disorders in infants. Even the pasteurd often
than ordinary milk, the
are unhappiy too many often pasteuze milk
traces of decomposition without affecting bacteria
THE most important regulations
the handling of milk the of herd
ducng it, Veterinary inspections inspections should be
rigidy made and the product should be subjected meteorological
test when it reaches the shipper"
An editorial in the Public Ledger advocates policy of gradual
reform precisely those backing the milk ordinance are
trying TO follow here when il
ut is obviously useless to impose all that are
impossible Of achievement for the result would open
regard of the sanitary regulations would be worse
than before But with the gradual improvement of these primary
dtOn and the publication of the milk
taminaon the other features of the problem easy of so