The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-14
CITIZENS ALARMED AT LOOSE
REQUIREMENTS ON DAlRRMEN
Diaries Should at Least Be Sanitary,
Says speaker-Urges That Inspected
Milk Be Certified and No Other Kind
Sold-Gordon Creek Sanitation Cues
tion Raised. -
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That the citizens Of Hattiesburg are
beginning to be aroused at the lack of
inspection of the milk supply of the
city was evident at the meeting of
the Commercial Club last night when
it was urged that some immediate and
|, radical action be taken to protect the
health of the community against un-
clean and unsanitary milk. The result
of the heated discussion which took
up most of the time of the club was
the appointment of committee to call
on the city commission and the mayor
and demand on the part of the, club
and the people of Hattiesburg the pas
sage of an ordinance at once establish
ing milk and dairy inspection and re.
quiring a, rigid set OF. regulations gov
| erning the handling of milk. ''-'-
1t was stated by various speakers
at the meeting last night that there
has been no inspection of the dairies
and the milk supply in Hattiesbnrg
but that any person who desired to sell
milk had only to buy the COW and dish
up the milk to the consumer in any
form he pleased. There as some good
| dairies in the cit yof Hattiesburg, one
1 NJ fhn cold hut n
number of others which do not even
have concrete floor. The least that
milk can be is sanitary, said a physi-
clan, who spoke for the inspection sys-
TEN. A large per cent of the milk
which is sold TO the people OF Hatties-
burg is not even sanitary and would
not be permitted in any city where
there is a system of inspection.
]. w. Rogers, in speaking of the sit
uation, said that some people can af.
ford to keep a COW and see that the
milk is pure and fresh, but thai the
majority of the people are utterly de-
pendent on the city authorities to
protect them from bad milk
A physician stated last night that
the number of diseases which are
transmitted through the milk supply
is large and that the present small cpl
demic of sore throat which is among
the school children, he thinks, is due
to the bacteria in the milk.
It was the unanimous agreement Of
the entire club that the milk inspec-
tion is matter which belongs to the
city authorities and that If it was nee.
essary to create the office of milk
tester and inspector the protection af-
forded to the city would justify the ex-
penditure of whatever money is neces.
sary to give the protection.
D. E. McInnis, president, appointed
the following committee to go before
the Commission and Mayor:
F. B. Woodley, DR.. J. J. Stevens, w
j. Hanan, DR.. w. w. Crawford, F. D
Lander, Sr.
In connection with the pure mill
discussion the question of the santa
tiun of Gordon creek which is alleged
to be the drinking water supply of Tho
milk cows of several daries wal
brought up again. W. J. Hanan stated
that the opening Of the mouth Of Cor
don creek was done with the idea tina
! the creek as far as its source would b.
made sanitary in the interest Of tn
health of the people living aroun,
: Newman's MILL 1t was stated that tn
Normal College sewage situation wa
5 practically the same as it was in tn
+ spring when the matter was first ag
n tated. 1t was urged at the same tim
n that the committee ask the commissio
e to rush the work of laying the sewe
from the septic tanks to the creek.