New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-01
DEALERS NOT READY
TO OBEY MILK RULE
Unable, 1t Is Said, to Meet
Regulations Compelling
PaSteurizatiOn.
RIGID REQUIREMENTS
IN EFFECT TO-DAY
100000 Quarts Not Up to New
Standard Will Be Sold. II
Is Asserted.

/ With the most sweeping milk pasteuri-
zation regulations ever adopted by the
health authorities i'm this city scheduled 10
20 into effect to-day. il was admitted yes
jerday at the Department Of Health that
100000 quarts Of unpasteurized milk
would be sold i'm this city to-day. This
was about equally divided. II was asserted.
in the Grade b and Grade & classes. The
regulations. adopted many months ago.
, call for the pasteurizat.on of all milk sold.
except high grades. which form an nsS-
Difcant part of The whole supply.
Paul T. Taylor. secretary of the New
York Milk Committee. said two weeks ago
that many dealers WOULD hold off in the
belief that the health officials would again
postpone action. but Dr. Sisismund :.
Goldwater who will take Office tomorrow
morning as Commissioner Of Health. said
there was no reason to expect any retro
grade policy on the part of the Board OF
Health"
Dr. Goldwator said he had not received
the report of the outgoing Commissioner
Ernst j. Lederle. that the regulations had
not been complied with.
IL shall take up the matter tomorrow
morning" said the new Commissioner. IT
will be thoroughly gone over at the meet
ing on Tuesday of the Board of Health
The policy TO be adopted will be announced
after the meeting"
There will be no prosecutions to-day
and no steps will be taken until 1t is
known what Or. Goldwatcr will do about
compelling rocalcitrant dealers to come
into the fold There has been criticism OF
Ledorle, especially by Taylor, for leaving
the milk problem for the. new adminstra-
ton
When Mr. Taylor was told yesterday
that il had been admitted that 2OO,ooo
quarts of unpasteurized milk would be
sold to-day he said if that was the ad-
nilsson of the department it was probably
a good deal more.
ct was much more than that week
ago" he said. "If in seven days Lederle
pot il reduced to 100000 quarts then he
ought to have a gold medal
The Milk Committee, Taylor added
would cooperate with the Health Commits
sioner Ia bring about compliance with the
regulations He felt that DIR. Goldwater
was in sympathy with the milk Standard
zation plans Of the committee. OF whlch
ne was q medical adviser.
After Investigations the MIX Commit
tee announced several weeks ago that
number Of the dealers had taken no steps
toward pasteurizing their milk. in the be-
lief that there would be an indefinite post
poncment of enforcement In fifty-seven
stores on the East Side the Consumers
League found 70.6 per cent of the mix
unpasteurized. Raw milk IN the Grade Is
class was responsible, according TO the
health officials. for the typhoid epidemic
On the East Side last fall.
4 report on this epidemic by the Cen
trail Council Of Public Health Of the CITY
of New York. printed in January In Tine
New York Medical Journal said:
"A large percentage of typhoid out
breaks is milk borne and preventable. me
recent serious outbreak in Manhattan
(autumn. 1879 had its origin IN con
taminated milk. This fact again empha-
sizes the need for efficient pasteurization
Of all raw and certified milk"