The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-05
C0NFUSES TESTER OF HERDS
One Section Demands Veterinarian,
While Other Permits TuberCu|in
Test By Some Competent Person

Until late last night council wrestled
with the milk inspection ordinance
and finally adjourned after a motion
| to advance the measure to engroSs-
ment was defeated by a vote of to
5. This leaves the ordinance still on
third reading and subject to amend
ments.
| Three amendments were offered
last night and all were defeated, One
amendment, Steinbrink's, to permit
dairymen to sell any quantity of milk
in bulk instead of in bottles, required
the vote of Mayor Robbins to kill it.
The offering of this amendment pro-
voked the livliest fight of the session.
two physicians, Doctors Bramkamp
and Marvel. taking a hand in the dis
| cussion. Councilmen Burdsall, Stein
brink, Weishaupt, White, wilkins and
| Williams voted for the measure, while
the other six councilmen, Carter,
O'Neal, Russell, Howells, Waidele
and Waterman voted against it.
Mayor Robbins then broke the tie by
voting no"
| Contains "Joker."
City Attorney Bond last evening
opened the milk discussion by present
| ing a revised ordinance, alterations be-
offered at two joint meetings held by
councilmen and dairymen. Barring
one serious Joker" which council
overlooked, the pure milk supply for
Richmond will be satisfied with its
provisions, providing the Joker" re-
| ferred to is corrected.
Under the terms of one section of
the revised ordinance any competent
person." not necessarily a veterinar-
| ian, capable of performing the duties
provided in the measure, including the
administering of the tuberculin test,
can qualify as city dairy inspector,
the salary of which office is increased
from $1,000 a year, provided in the
! original draft of the measure, to
$1,35O The dairy inspector, however,
cannot engage in private practice,
which was permitted in the original
drafe providing he was veterinarian.
What IL Means.
A "joker" is made of this section,
No. 20, however, in the event the dairy
inspector is not a veterinarian, which
the present inspector, Charles Flock,
is not, by the terms of section No. 21,
which provides that the tuberculin
test shall be administered only by
competent and licensed" veterinar-
ian.
In other words, should man who
is not a veterinarian, not be appointed
dairy inspector he could not admin
lister it under another provision.
These contradictory sections escap-
ed the notice of the councilmen and
were passed over with no discussion.
except the statements of one or two
councilmen who declared that pro-
hibiting the inspector from engaging
in private practice was as it should
be.
Councilman Weishaupt was greatly
perturbed because the ordinance pro-
vides that milk sold in quantities of
less than gallon" a change from
the original ordinance, which read in
quantities of a quart or less,' must
be bottled. He said that in his opin-
ion dairymen should be permitted to
sell milk in bulk, that is dipped" out
of a large wagon can, if they so de-
sired. He said many consumers per-
ferred to have their milk served in
that way.
Want Milk Bottled.
Doctors Bramkamp and Marvel and
Councilman Waidele took exception to
Weishaupts suggestion. however, all
declaring that the section providing
the distribution of milk in bottles was
one of the principal features of the
ordinance, and if it was stricken out
the ordinance would be of little bene-
fit
Weishaupt countered by inquiring If
the typhoid epidemic last fall did not
originate from bottled milk. He was
promptly told that such was the case,
but that unclean bottles was the
cause. He was also told that under
the terms of the pending ordinance
the distribution of milk in bottles
which had not been properly cleansed
and sterilized was serious offense.
The vote was then taken on Stein
Drinks "anti-bottle" amendment, re-
sulting in it's defeat by close vote.
Scoring System Same.
Under the revised ordinance the
system for scoring dairies remains the
same as provided in the original meas
ure, and every person owning cow
or cows and who offers milk for sale
in the city, if only once a year, is con-
sidered a dairyman and must take out
a license, the fee for which is $1.00,
good for one year. 1t was originally
provided that people could sell milk in
the city once week without having
to take out license.
Waidele offered an amendment pro-
viding that a regular dairyman's score !
Should De maze on MS own milk sup |
ply and the milk he secured from all
other sources. This was defeated be- |
cause under the terms of the ordi-
nance every person who supplies milk |
directly or Indirectly to the city must |
have his dairy scored.
The passing mark" under the re- |
vised ordinance is reduced from go to
SO up to July 1, 1915, and reduced |
from 20 to so after that date.
Councilman Steinbrink took excep- |