New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-17
SETTING PACE IN
CITY SANITATION
Mayor Praises Work of DIR.
GoldWater in Health
Department.
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN
FOR VACCINATION
Almost Entire Milk Supply Now
Pasteurized-Pure Food Rules
Vigorously Enforced.


In reviewing the three months Of prog
ress made in the Health Department I'M
der Commissioner g s Goldwater. Mayor
Mitchell expressed satisfaction yesterday
over the many new activities that had
been started without any increase in the
force Of the department. and. indeed,
without any increased expenditure.
The report Of Commissioner Goldwat.r
ia the first presented by Mitchell com
missioners. Others will como along In
few weeks One Of the significant things
being done by the department now Is the
dissemination of information about con-
taefous diseases. and ways in which the
public may aid in keeping UP the general
sanitary conditions IN the city.
I'm proposing the establishment Of
bureau OF public health" said the Mayor
Commissioner Goldwater is setting q
pace for health officers throughout the
country. The plan for the organization
Of the new bureau has already been APP
proved by the Board OF Estimate, and
only awaits the approval OF the Board OF
Aldermen.
, THE Department OF Health is now In
+ouch through its Weekly Bulletin with
every physician in the City Of New YORK
and with every institution with which u
has official relations. The rer1odeied
Weekly Bulletin has been heartily COM
mended by the people, and has been 30
generously quoted by the press that the
educational influence of the department
u, ~
previously unknown.
The city has secured and is grateiui
for the cooperation OF the officers OF the
Catholic School Board, who have volun-
teered TO help the department in the vac
cination OF $4,000 children who at
tend the parochial schools. and who,
though not amenable 10 compulsory vac
cination. will nevertheless be protected
from smallpox in the future, as the chill
dren I'm the public schools have been pro-
tected in the past"
The department has worked out plan
for the control Of whooping cough
disease which in the past has been the
cause OF considerable mortality and the
administrative control of which mas not
heretofore been attempted.
one Of the things done by Commis-
sioner Goldwater has been to put into |
effect the rules for the pasteurizatlon OF
the milk supply. Now all except ABOUT |
ner cent of the milk used in the city is
That small amount is what
is known as certified milk, and comes |
frorn farms where the most ideal condi- |
tons Of cleanliness prevail.
The department has made study OF |
secondary cases Of contagious diseases |
following the removal of the first cases
TO hospitals. comparing them with the
,,,,r,ber of secondary cases occurring In
families where the original case was
treated at home.
"The study shows conclusively, sald
the Mayor, "the Importance Of hospital
isolation. at least in the case OF tenement
house population. II amply justifes the
administration policy of providing lot
more adequate hospital facilities for the
care of contagious diseases"
DIR Goldwater has inaugurated plan
for the systematic and perlooio physical
examination of the employees OF the de-
nar+ment and wants 20 extend 1t 10 all
city departments.
Summing UP other activities the Mayor
said:
9TH. departrnent has been most active
IN the enforcement OF those sections OF
the Sanitary Code relating TO pure looo'
has adopted model rules and regulations
for the control OF the milk INDUSTRY mas
undertaken the regulation OF estaohsh-
ments producing frozen FOOD prooucts'
sucb a. ice cream; is directing vigor-
ous campaign against unsanitary meth
dds IN saloons and at soda fountains anu
hos Installed a system of records or
cr,r,inal actions brought against persons
,rbo have violated sections Of the SAM
tarv Code pertaining TO foodstuns' ~hion
will not only prove valuable for stausuc@l
nurnoses. but which will be or material
ala to the Corporation Counsers once III
81. efforts Of the latter 20 obtain aae-
o,,ata punishment for those who per-
sjstently violate the law
m coIdvater reported yesterday that
Eve cases of smallpox developed IN inc
CITY last week. The patients were ne
oroos and all from the same house Since
February there have been seventeen
cases. One Of them was a whlte "o'h""
from, the South. Two white persons
.avgbt tho disease from her. AS result
80 the vaccination crusade 7,UO persons
IN the city have been vaccinateo ana w.
an others are about to be. Most OF them
eve connected with hotels. department
s,or.s and factories. There is no longer
80, danger of a general smallpox cpl
=, nv C;oldwater said last night