The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-06-25
MILK BILL IS
NECESSARY,
EXPERT SAYS
Visiting Doctor Amazed at At.
titude OF Council on DR..
MeBride's Ordinance.
OTHER CITIES DO 1T
Seattle Must Be Behind Times
He Tells The Star. When
He Learns Situation.

seattle's proposed milk bill
Ia a very moderate one. com.
pared to the drastic measures
other cities have adopted 20
safeguard their milk supply; II
really doesn't 90 far enough,
This was the opinion Or.
C-hss. e. North, famous New
York milk authority. expressed
to The star today. Or. North
10 touring the country In inter.
est OF better milk.
The visitor declared the hes.
ltanoy Of the council amazed
him. He questioned It's mo.
tivcs.
Either there is some misunder-
standing or else Seattle IA very far
hehind the times" said Or North.
There In nothing new or novel
about compulsory testing or pas.
teurixation. Such a Law has been
Ia effect In many Eastern cities for
several years. When the New York
city council passed such an ordi.
nance a year ago there wasn't a
ripple OF opposition.
Ask for Pss.eurixstion
During a recent &c 10 Plough.
keepsie. y. v. fou.d the people
themselves actually clamorins for
ia milk bill compelling the dairy.
men 10 pasteuriEe their milk and
allowing them no alternative, This
agitation was the outgrowth OF a
scarlet fever epidemic. traced To a
dairy farm where some OF the
hands were infected Fourteen
people died and $50 fell ~,
III your council has only the
general welfare OF the people OF
Seattle AZ heart, II should not de,
lay IN getting behind Dr. Mcbride
for radical action. would favor
compulsory pssteurixatlon alone.
for then no accident. a. in
Poughkeepsie. could happen to the
consumer"
visa Dairy Farms
THURSDAY. Dr. Mcbride took Dr.
North on a tour OF tn. various
dairy farms which marke, their
milk In Seattle. going ~ far a.
Puyallup.
Dr. North is scheduled to address
the Federation of Nomsn'A Clubs
Friday afternoon. Saturday noon
he will be heard by a number of
civic clubs In joint meeting al
Good Eats cafeteria,
MIX important az Water
H. NAWtA f.sss.a.tf
missionary aud said his travels
are In the interes, of awakening
communities 20 the fact that purity
of milk supplies il az important as
the purity OF water supplies. and Ia
NOR. difficult TO regulate. owing 10
the many sources from which II
comes. and the many persons and
animals engaged In its production
and distribution. He said.
Ten years ago the city authori.
ties OF New York were not couyinc-
ed OF the importance OF pure
milk supply
a group OF peopl. phiIanthropic
ally inclined got together to prove
TO the city officials the great i'm.
portanee OF this matter. and for
that purpose established several
small milk depo,s In one OF the
Stun sections OF the city. from
which they supplied pure milk to
the poor people for their babies
Reduce Death Rate
In one year they reduced the
death rate 30 per cent In that dis.
trict. and the city was led TO rec.
ognixe the fact that pure milk IL a
great municipal question. Hut the
city soon found itself In the ridicu
lous position OF furnishing a supply
of milk to the poor that was far
better than the rich were able "a
get
Now there are IS milk stores In
New York city. operated under the
supervision OF the health depart
ment. for the sale OF pure milk (a'
cents a quartz for babies"
New York 10 supplying pure milk
To upward OF $4,000 babies n day
and the death rate among then
has been reduced from 1877 pei
900 to - per !. 900, DIR. North said
II came TO Seattle 10 criticlse
but am going back TO praise.
said he Il doubt II Seattle people
realize the fine conditions In which
they live. Seattle In q banner cit,
In the matter OF death rates. Yo,
have the lowest typhoid death rate
and one OF the lowest infant NOR
tally death rates In the United
States