Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-24

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that he was only going through the
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the proprietor that unless improve
ment was shown very soon he would
refuse him permission to sell milk in
this city.
Where Filth Abounds
On the farm where the typhoid
patient is confined the building con-
ditions, according to the inspectors are
exceedingly bad. On the top of a
hill stands the barn. The yard is thick
with manure and filth abounds, a dead
chicken with its bones decaying being
sighted in prominent place. To the
side of the barn and a short distance
down the hill is the house. In front
OF this and still further down the hill
is pig pen and a chicken coop and
still father down the slope is a toilet.
Drainage from all of these places
naturally. in time, finds its way to a
little gully at the foot of the hill and
situated along this gully is the spring
where the tenants on the farm get
their drinking water and where they
wash their milk cans and cool their
milk The land drains into a branch
of Paxton Creek and when the stream
overflows its banks its waters are also
carried in to the spring. and it is at
such a place that milk cans which
carry milk to the babies of Harris
burg are washed.
Tenant Has Typhoid
At the present time, however, the
cows are not being milked on the
farm. not because of the existing con-
ditions. but because the tenant on the
farm has typhoid fever. The cows
are now at a nearby farm where they
are being MIXED regularly and their
milk is being sent to the dealer in a
nearby borough who supplies hun
dreds of families in this city. When
the tenant recovers from his illness
the department of health will not per-
NIT him to take his cattle back to
the farm until conditions are i'm
proved. The stables at the present
time, and from indications have been
for some time past, are in a most un-
clean and unhealthy condition.
Where Things Are Different
The inspection party next travelled
to farm near Shops church where
conditions were found altogether diff
ferent. The stables and barn yard
were clean and tidy, the inside of the
barn was whitewashed and running
along the edge of the stalls was a
trough to carry off the filth. Concrete
walks were found in the stables and
outside and little complaint could be
lodged against the owner of that
place. The milk house. located few
steps from the barn was well kept and
improved machinery found there maze
the entire place one of the best found
in the days travel. The farmer brings
his milk to this city and delivers 1t
himself.
The next visit was made to a dealer
in borough near Harrisburg who
buys much of the milk produced on
the farms in that vicinity. He has no
farm of his own. In addition to the
pasteurization methods which DIR.
Raunick said were inadequate. the
dealer has a man working for him
dition. The health officer said to-day
that he intended to have the employ
produce a certificate from a physician
If he continues to work there.
Flies In Milk Tank
The dealer adverttses all his milk
as pasteurized and produced under the
most sanitary conditions but right in
his own plant that are many things
which must be improved. IL he wants to
continue his sale of milk in Harris
burg. The milk is placed in a tank
before 1t is sent through the pasteur-
ization machine. This tank is with
out cover and yesterday the inspec-
ton party found dozens of dead flies
floating about in the milk. Proper
pasteuriZation takes only few
minutes but at this plant where
pasteurization has been advertised as
the key note, IT is only carried on in
form, according to the health bureau.
The public buys the milk. believing it
to be pasteurized, said DIR. Raunick,
but in reality it is nothing more than
ordinary raw milk, some of which
comes from farms where frightful
conditions exist" In the same plant
yesterday the inspectors found bottled
milk with sediment in the bottom
Trips to MELVILLE .
Yesterday afternoon a trim WA e
made to a farm near Newville, the
owner of which shipped milk to
dealer in this city until he was notified
to quit by the Department of Health.
In front of this mans barn is a pool
of water. the results of rains for some
time past. The pool has no outlet
and unto uched It has become an excel.
lent malaria and mosquito park" The
cows of the farm wade about in II
the filth, some of which must un-
doubtedly get into the milk pals The
stable is dirty and the barn yard has
not been cleaned for months, from all
appearances. Manure, which now
must have lost its fertilizlng properties
covers the yard to depth of two feet
in some places few feet from one
corner of the yard is cistern where
the milk cans are washed. There is
no spring or we'll on the farm and
all the water that can be procured is
that which runs off the barn roof into
spout and then into the cistern. The
tenants on the farm use this same
water for drinking and cooking pur-
poses- DR.. Raunick will not permit
the farmer to send any more of his
milk here until more sanitary condf-
tions exist. The farm is without any