The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-03-01
Chamber Of Commerce )
Public Health Commission
Will Present Measure.
CLEANLINESS TN
SUPPLY DEMANDED
Ordinance Has Been Drafted
Which Viii Protect Public
Health and at Same Time
VIII Work No Undue
Hardships on Dairymen.

Hardshlps on Dairymen.
Tho city commissioner Al their
weakly meeting to-day will receive from
the public health commission 81 the
Chamber % Commerce an ordinance
which has been prepared regulating
the safe ~ milk witain 10 city limits.
The commissioners will be aeked %
enact the measure ard then see that
~ - strictly enforced.
Pure milk 10 az NECESSARY TO ths
health OF city az pure drinking water.
i The people OF a community have tina
same right 90 cleanliness ia one as in
tbs other. There il AZ this time hardly
a city in the Uattod stsfcs that has
not taken hold ~ the puklie water
supply So properly safeguard Il againne
disaase-eatryirg germs. In the days
when city waserwoFkH we're privately
owned and controlled typhoid epIdsm-
les were common IN many localities.
Little effort was made Go prevent In
1 fection. either ~. the source ~ thu
water CT IN the procems OF delivery.
/ Private enterprise was naturally more
concerned with the dividend earned
than with the health - the com
munits. n ~aa the business of TIE
people to look out for themselves Ia
ssich matters. and what ans the buni-
ness % all was the BUSINESS of none.
The conditions which formerly pre-
vailed In regard 10 the wat04 supply
aow ind close parallel Ia the pro-
duction and distribution II fresh milk.
The disease most 20 be feared from
impure watev Il typhoid Milk il not
only an Ideal medium fsF the prupes<
CATION ~ the typhoid germ. bur sew
eral other. and equally dmseeraaas
Eerms. gernsa ~ dlselsst % uhGch
sounx children are particularly nsss-
eepsihie. find 4 splsrtlid breeding
Il place. DinhtneFis. tsshertnsiosis. septic
sore throat and summer 'soE,plalnaa ~
children. as well a. typhoid. Eaay often
be tr9ced directly 90 the bottle Of milk
which the dalrymaa leaves ~ tiss door
each morning.
The municipal governments have as
sunied control over the supply agd
distribution of drinklng a'ate< 90
properly protect the. aealts q their
citizens. and Cor the same raahon they
must exercise control ever the pro-
ducsion. handling and delivery Of rualk.
cream and other dairy products
The practice of ulilnR mik BOTTLES
on the street. thus exposing the milk
10 the gterin-Aaden air Is common.
Carrying carriage snd swill on tha
wagon from which milk u delivered Is
also common practice
To remedy these conditions aud az-
sure the housewives - pssaam ola ~ =
supply % reasonably clsan milk. thero
has been prepared by ire sanitation
and public health committee 81 the
Chamber ~ Commerce an ordinances
emhodyinR the sanitary features found
BY experience 90 have hesn nnccessssI
IN other southern cities.
CLEANLINESS DEMANDED.
The principal result sought by tba
/ committee having the ordinance la
charge Ia cleanliness. ctsanilness Ia
production. cleanliness in landing and
cleanliness Ia distribution. The iinrn-
+. elai conditions in and aFonsi Pensacola
were carefully eonsldered ~ thar COM
mittee and every effort wgaN made ts
draft the ordinance IN sas.l manner
THAI the desired result would be oh
taiued without forcing the dairyman To
invest large sums In nes barns or
other expensive equipment Modern
: and sanitary methods. clean methods.
are prescribea and demanded. and
surely cleanliness ts not teo much 20
NN@E%#A&4
2 life particularly when II may ho
achieved without great expenditure.
: IN 1910 about the same conditions
: prevailed. in the aairy buAness sn
: Jacksonville an We now hssve In PEN
sacola- During that yeaw the city
2 council ~ Jacksonville paIssea milk
a ordinance under she title 81 Ordinance
KIT.
a JACKSONVILLE REPORT.
OF grsat interest in the following
4 excerpt from tss report of the Jack
sonyiiie Miik and Dairy Inspector Tor
the year 1911. when II ls remembered
that the bacteria content o. any sam
pie Of milk IL direct itsIex 10 the
methods employed IN handling Il. the
number or bacteria per cubic cent.
? meter decreasing az the milk APP
proaches a standard Of absDllts clean
lineaas
"a meteorological examination ~
the milk from ten 0f the bnst equipped
tiairiec. made IN June. 1910. prior 20
? the passage OF the milk ordinance
: showed an average hmcteris. content
Of 1.7oo. 600 per cubic e@nsimeter
, rTpou compiling the reports for the
: month 81 December. 1911. the average
count had been reduced Ia 10000 per
G. c.
IL must not be Thought that ali
or even a ma ior1tY % the dalrymen a.
Pensacola are selling dsrty milk. A
large gss1s9ber IT them give strict at
tention 10 sanitary methods and are
= now producing ~ dean mix sc can
Z he found anywhere Some % laess
laavs examined the proposed milk ord