The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-01
|HURTY SAYS MILK
MEASURE PERFECT
Jordan Reads Comment From
| Secretary Of State Board
at Meeting Of the Public
Health Committee.

Dairymen, members of the city coun.
ell and members of the public health
committee of the Commercial club,
will hold meeting tonight to discuss
what DR.. j. N. Hurry, secretary of the
state board of health says lis the
most thorough and perfect milk or
'dinance in the United States"
At a meeting of the public health
committee last night, Charles w. Jor-
dan, secretary of the Commercial club.
submitted the following letter he re-
ceived from DR.. Hurry.
Il have had the pleasure and profit
of reading the proposed Richmond
milk ordinance. believe this ordi-
nance is the most thorough and per-
feet OF any in the United States. Any
how, 1t Is the best one that I know
anything about. The clause which re-
fers to the tuberculin testing seems to
be all right in every respect Certain
it is, COWS with tuberculosis should
not furnish milk for human consump-
ton.
Sees Good Results.
Il believe that at the present time
all milk should be pasteurized and
some of it should be sterilized. The
ipasteurization clause is all right. I
am sure it would be endorsed by all
milk experts everywhere. l am con-
fident this is also true in regard to
what the ordinance has to say con-
corning the bottling and temperature.
i believe if Richmond council passes
this ordinance and it is properly en-
forced that great good will come of
it, especially among the children.
! feel confident the Richmond CONNER
cial club will stand by this ordinance
and give it their aid in every pos
! sible way.
Every truly yours,
! "DR. J. N. HURRY,
|, Secretary"
In spite of DR.. Hurty's strong rec
ommendation, the members of the
health committee were not entirely
satisfied with the ordinance. AS all
members were not present no action
was taken but every clause was dis
tcussed.
Object to Temperature.
None of the men interested in the
the dairyman any reforms which will
| be a hardship to them, and do no good
to the consumer.
There is a clause which compels the
tdairymen to cool the milk to fifty de-
grees Immediately after milking and
keep it that low until 1t reaches the
CONSUMER. There is another clause
which says no milk shall have been
tmilked more than eighteen hours at
the time of delivery.
| 1t is believed it will be difficult
thing to cool milk to that temperature
The dairymen who milk at night will
.have no difficulty in having the milk
cool enough. but that which is MIXED
in the morning and delivered at once,
lprobably could not be cooled to meet
the requirements Of the ordinance.
1t Is also said many consumers leave
milk bottles standing in the sun for
two or three hours after delivery, thus
bringing the temperature up to de-
gree from which it costs the dairymen
considerable time and expense to cool
1T previously.
Instead Of pressing this clause In
to the ordinance several dairy farms
will be visited first and the temper
AZURE of the springs will be taken.
Then the members of the health com
imittee will take the temperature of
the milk in their own refrigerators to
ascertain If ice will keep it to fifty
degrees. This investigation is ex-
pected to show whether or not the
clause will be just to the dairymen.