The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-18
TAKING STEPS ID
 SAFEGUARD MILK Claim Made It Is Subject to
 Contamination
NEW ORDINANCE DRAWN
That Typhoid Was Recently Traced to Dairy Supplying Mf1k
 to Birmingham
BY CLYDE ". ENNIS

BY CLYDE w. ENNIS
 At the meeting of the City Council to be held next Wednesday an ordi- nance, which it is hoped will be adopt ed. designed to safeguard the distribu- tion of milk, will be up for passage.
 The health department through Dr. Nelson and other physicians of the city has secured the memoranda of an ordinance which provides that all dairies in the city must be equipped with proper sewerage or must have in- stalled an incinerator for the destruc- ton of al excreta at dairies.
 The ordinance received It's impetus from the recent discovery that typhoid fever was distributed through the city by milk from dairies wh ere no sanitary sewerage Is maintained, nor where there is any method employed for the destruction of germ-b caring matter Many dairies have already installed the service which the proposed ordinance will require
 In the city health circles the ques- ton of installing proper facilities for the serving of this purpose is caus- ing intense interest. While 1t Is ad- mitted that all oairymen cannot se- cure city sanitary sewerage at their farms 1t Is believed that they can have installed miniature crematories, such us have been in service for the state at Boyles, the Steel corporation at Corey, the army barracks throughout America and other places where there are no sewerage systems.
 Burr Ferguson, who has been in- stalling the incinerator systems for the Tennessee company and others, in ap- bearing before the Medical society said that perfect results can be had from systems which can be secured here and which can be installed at a very slight cost. The Medical society went on rec ord as being favorable to any system or service which would faithfully protect milk consumers from possible i'll eff products.
 The resolution to be offered next week at the council meeting follows: An ordinance-Be 1t orda ined by the City Council of Birmingham as follows: That every dairy supplying milk to the citizens of Birmingham shall be and Is hereby required to put into operation on It's premises, 30 days after notice, some form of individual crematory, 10 be approved by the city health officer, for the disposal of human excreta, as a safeguard against the contamination of the milk, from the excreta of those connected with said dairy and members of the family of the owner of same. 1 Sec 2. Any dairy provided with con- nection with sanitary sewer is exempt from the requirements of this ordinance. Sec. 3. Any dairyman, through him self or by agent or employe. found guilty of violating the provision of this ordinance must, on conviction, be fined as provided in section sOs of the city code of Birmingham"
 The resolution of the Jefferson County Medical society regarding the installation of sanitary incinerators was the initial step in the fight to reduce the quantity of impure milk said to be freely dstrib- uted here. The resolutions which follow point out that no injustice would be done any dairyman in compelling the install lation of an incinerator, as where a person is near a sanitary sewer he is re- l quired to connect herewith at heavie, cost than would be incurred in the ln- stalation of private system.
 | The Medical society resolution follows: | "Whereas, Within the last month two cases of typhoid fever were found by the health department in the residence Of dairyman selling milk in Birmingham and the attendants of the patient were milking the cows and sending said milk out for sale, the excreta from this patient } being thrown out on the premises. 1 Whereas. Milk is the best medium foi the cultivation of the typhoid bacillus anc safeguards should properly be throwr around dairies marketing their produce in Birmingham.
 | Whereas, In the absence of sanitary sewer connections, cremation is tn, safest method of disposal of excreta | therefore, be 1t
 Resolved, That we recommend to tn, City Council of Birmingham, that eacf | dairy selling milk within the limits of tn, city, not connected with sanitary sewer | aSct oc ic4uii Co tO iHStdil oOfttC bSNiSS | to be approved by the city health depart ment whereby such excreta and garbag, may be protected from flies during ac cumulation, and then burned. It is thu sense of this meeting that the moderate cost involved in this sanitary procedure is in no sense an injustice to these dairies since the residents of any given section where sewers are available are orderee to connect with said sewers at a mucf greater cost for plumbing, toilet devices etc"
 The above resolution was introduced at a meeting of the Jefferson Count. Medical society on November [ 1910, bl Dr. Robert Nelson. On motion it wal referred to the committee on health. Or November 21, 1910, the committee recon
 mended the adoption of the resolution b.
 the society. motion to adopt was car ried unanimously.
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