The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-12
MILK DEALERS IN OPPOSITION
 TO ORDINANCE Say Dipped" Milk No Less Sanitary Than the Bot tied Variety. STATISTICS SHOWING
 INFANT MORTALITY Contention Being That Impure Milk Kills Most of the Rabies-Civie Workers Favor Proposed
 Regulations.


 to any greater extent than does bot. tied milk, was the contention of about 5o dealers who sell in Bridgeport, to the ordinance committee Of the com mon council last night The dealers appeared sat a public hearing in the common council champer co oppose the passage of an ordinance to forbid the sale Of dipped milk in Bridgeport
 It was also brought out at the hear ing that the consumer pays the freieht'' on sanitation regulations
 made regarding the sale of milk. for railRz bottled at the dairy costs q cent quart more than dipped milk The dealer who uses bottles tacks on an extra penny to pay the cost of glass i ware, cost of handling, breakage, etc. l About a score, among whom were some prominent, residents of the city and women proaninents in movements for civic betterment,. appeared= in Ia vor of the ordinance NO direct data was introduced to show that disease is spread by dipped milk and the pro- posed ordinance received a severe ssiamming at the hands Of the oPposi- tion
 Meigv B. Russell, feporter Of the Bridgeport Morning Telegram, which has been conducting a campaign for clean milk in Bridgeport, marshaIled the forces Of those who fasvored the ordinance Attorney Robert H. Gould was marshal for the opposition. The attendance taxed the seating capacity Of the council chamber where the hearing was held
 MT Russell opened proceedings and presented data from the Conn AgSi- cultural station and other data show ing that milk was one of the greatest carrier of disease germs known He also presented statistics showing the deaths of infants less than year old in Bridgeport in the past 20 years was < 6,212. At that period he said the prir-l cipaI food for infants was milk or nu- triueat made from milk In the past year he said the deaths in Bridgeport of children between one and five years was 485. Impure milk he said was largely resp<nsable for these deaths.
 He also. read statistics from health officers in New York and other cities charging that infant mortality espe- cialIy in warm weather was due to { diseases caused by impure milk. wa tered milk or milk from which the fat had been partly taken.
 These things he said, s'haye no direct bearing on the ordinance be fore you, as they do not refer to dipped milk My investigation for my paper has proven &hat the milk supply in Bridgeport is not up to the stand ard which it should be I have been informed that miIknen in this city have been known to carry quart
 bottle Of cream and when they saw
 the inspector coming have dumped the cream into the contents of a. can that otherwise was near skinned milk
 Milk sold from cans cannot be kept cool in the warm months. New Haven has an ordinance similar to the one before you-''
 l Dr. A. c. Knapp. meat and milk in l spector, also spoke in flavor of the or
 dinance. He said he considered that the ordinance would provide the only safe and canitary way to put out milk in Bridgeport. He said about 30 per
 cent of the dealers in the city sold
 dipped milk.
 Il S. R. Gordon, superintendent od
 charities. quoted experts in larger cit ies in favor of the ordinace.
 Attorney Robert H. Gould asked MT.
 Gordon if he had any figures which
 traced infant mortality direct tc
 dipped milk. MT Gordon had none , but said the practice of selling dipped ? milk seemed evident that it was un-
 sanitary.
 , E. B. Sherwood said he had. beer | peddling milk in Bridgeport for near ly Q quarter of a century. He said ? he had sold pure milk under city and
 state inspection and he said the or , dinance would be a hardship to him i self and others
 s Attorney Gould said he represented , 1 a large number Of men who were 2 selling milk to a large number Q 5 people who wanted to buy dipped r milk He said:
 Do not be carried away. gentle s men, with the idea which the head lines in certain newspaper suggest | that infant mortality comes entirely ! from one cause and that cause, dipped
 milk. You are not called upon to save . the babies of Bridgeport by such al ? ordinance. The statutes Of Connecti
 cut contain many sections which com f pei the sanitary distribution and sal [ 1 of milk Let the phraseoiogy of you 2 1 ho that if will I derstood I do not believe any ont ! | can really say what is known to tn t trade as dipped milk Dirt and bac l teria will not fly into a. can which th'
 nilkman uses in the street II It IS Rep t l properly covered and in a fanitar. :. | manner any more than it will fly int = milk bottled at dairy under sanitar. e conditions.
 Q .sThere is dividing line betweel t what is police power and that whicl f is restraint of trade, but will not g. t into that.'' t He read from an authority to shov S that there was danger of infection n even in bottled milk left on door steps s His authority was a hygiene eDper e at Harvard university.
 r "I will ask you before you 1egis e late" he continued. ..to go into thi
 matter thoroughly and not to do any
 thing that is contrary to the stat
 laws Tonight I am here representini E | a ldTS0 HulLt0CE Q1 AAACAA WA4O aAe-fO ~ e years been selling to customers Wh
 want dipped milk, and who can sa, t that they have added to infant nor . tality by this practice? You can g keep bottled milk cool as easily as yo
 can in 40 quart can. See what tn
 state has said before you pass a cit A ordinance- '
 IS About 50 nailkmen at Attorne - Gou1d's request arose to show tha n they were opposed to the propose l~s<5r7 a dipped milk.
 At a similar request from MT. R11e