The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-03
DAIRY PRODUCTS
To Be EXCLUDED
Board of Health Takes Action
Against FairVieW and In
dianOla Dairymen.
EPIDEMIC OF TYPHOID
Inspector Frazier Reports Shocking
Unsanitary Conditions in the
Two Towns.

Owing to the existence of an cpl
demic of typhoid fever and the gen
eral unsanitary condition of the diaries
and farms al Fairview snd indiahoia,
Sanpete county, the board of health, AT
a special meeting held Sunday morning,
directed Walter j. Frazer, food ana
AIRY commissioner, to exclude IRON
Salt Lake all dairy products or the TWO
towns
The action OF the board OF health IS
the result of a trip of Inspection re-
Gently na6e 10 FairvieW and lndlanola
by Mr.. Frazier, who reported on ms
return that conditions there were much
worse tnan any he had ever before
seen them.
According 10 Mr. Frazier. the dairy
men of these towns give no attenti oh
whatever toward keeping their places
in a sanitary condition. He also says
that cream, which Is soured De1ore
leaving the farm, is regularly sent -
this CRY, TO be later manufacture INTO
butter
Typhoid Epidemic.
Not in the entire time that l have
been m the food and dairy division or
the city government, have L expert
enced such conditions as were found
in Fairview ana Indianola. said Mr..
Frazier. The fact that Fairyiew was
suffering from an epidemic OF typhoid
fever was brought 10 my attention last
week, and as there is considerable but
ter ana cream coming into this city
IL
inspection trip through the territory.
On arriving in Fairview l found that
there We're twenty-five typhoid teVer
cases in the town number OF the
were selling milk 10 the FairvieW
creamery. and two OF the families were
sending their cream 10 one or the
larger creamery companies OF this
city.
Mr.. Frazier said that no attempt
Wha teVer was ever made at sanitation.
Filthy Slaughter House.
Mr.. Frazier also found that a slaugh-
ter house was in operation in Fairview
in the center Of the town. This slaugh-
ter house, according to the food com
missioner. had been in operation for
fifteen years al its present location.
The killing room is an old lean-to OF
a barn. and without a floor. the blood
being allowed TO sink into the ground.
The place generally was IN most
filthy condition, he said.
AT IndianOla, Mr.. Frazier says he
found conditions 10 be even worse than
in Fairview. He said that barns were
reeking with filth He found that a
collection OF cream was made in In
dianola for a Salt Lake creamery once
a week during the summer time. The
cream, while awaiting collection, was
stored in filthy dug-outs, and much or
il sOured and became affected with
disease germs before leaving its place
of production.
Inspectors at Work.
Mr. Frazier says that Fairview and
IndianOla are badly in need OF a gen.
eral cleaning up. He declares that
people operating the country diaries
have no proper place for housing their
cows, and that in many places open
cans or milk were found beside barrels
of garbage and filth. The mixers were
never cautioned TO wash their hands.
and milking utensils were washed with
water from wells not more than fifteen
feet in depth, and many OF which were
located where the drainage would
empty into them.
The city board of health will have
a number OF inspectors at the depots
today, and until such time when con-
ditiOns are found TO be in better shape,
all cream and butter from these two
towns Will be excluded from this city.
Later in the week Mr.. Frazier will
make another trip TO some OF the
southern Utah towns, and viii recon-
mend that milk be excluded from the
city from places where the dairies are
condition. According TO a report Of
the United States department OF agri-
culture, typhoid bacillus will live in
butter and cream from two to three
weeks. The city health officers are
OF the opinion that the typhoid fever in
Salt Lake this fall is largely due to
the conditions complained of.
The cream from Fairview and In
dianola Is not only being sent to
also 10 an ogden firm. 1t was found
that cream which had been rejected
by the FairVieW creamery, was being
accepted by the creamerieS OF both Salt