Arizona republican., 1915-08-09
SOME LIGHT ON
 MILK ORDINANCE
Dr. Edward $. Godfrey, Jr., City Health Officer, EX- plains Terms and Mean ing of Proposed Ordinance Under Consideration

More Indn pdSSlIlS interest IS btlIlS paid to the proposition of the city com mission to adopt a comprehensive milk ordinance. The proposed ordinance was given a. reading at the last meet ing of the city commission. It is a lengthy document and by some is classed as not being entirely under standable. With the end in view of enlightening the public as to the terms of the proposed ordinance and just what they mean. an interview was had yesterday with Dr. Edward s. God frey, Jr., city health officer in which he said:
 The ultimate purpose of milk or dinance is to promote health and to decrease the opportunities of contract ing disease. It is apparent that the better the milk supply the less the lia- bility 70 contract disease through this medium The attempt is made in this ordinance, first. to make all the milk sold in the city safe; second to induce the dealers. through the consumers, to give as wide a margin of safety as the consumer wants or is willing to pay for
 While safe milk supply has been the first consideration, the limited cap ital of the small producer. the difficult ties of the tenant farmer and various other factors entering into the prob lem have been. kept in mind. I have tried to be as reasonable to the pro- ducer as is consistent with safety to the consumer and that the public may judge how well or how ill this purpose has been reached desire to submit the following:
 Aside from it's title and the emer- gency clause, the proposed ordinance covers eighteen and one-half typewrit- ten pages of which seven are devoted to defining the different grades and classes of milk and it's products with the regulations peculiar to each grade and class. The remaining pages take up the general regulations which differ ! in only one essential point to be men tioned later. from the milk ordinances of most cities.
 | Tt is. of course, the intention to en- force the ordinance if it is passed and ! to this end several features tending to make the enforcement easier have been 1 inserted. The most important Of these l IS the permit based upon an applica- l ton which must describe the location ! of the Cairy the number of COWS. the equipment and the methods in vogue. |, From this application alone many | faults can be immediately corrected prior even to the inspection which must be made before the permit is ] issued. Another feature is the classi- | fication of the milk into four primary | grades known as A. B. C and D, and re- l quirinC proper labelling on bottles and i distinctive colors on the cans. The reason for this should be obvious ' Grade D milk may be perfectly safe for | butter making and vet unsafe for the
 manufacture of ice cream. Grade c 1 milk may be palatable in ice cream but
 probably would not be as a beverage
 owing to the high temperature at which
 it may be pasteurized: Grade B milk [ will be safe in all probability for any
 body. but as the factor of safety is not ' large if only the minimum require
 ments are attained, we have provided
 a higher grade, known as Grade A es- pecially adapted for infants, invalids and those who appreciate clean fresh | food. Grades A and B are subdivided
 into raw and pasteurized milk and in Grade A there is an additional subdi- 1 vision known as Grade A guaranteed
 milk whose bacterial count must con-
 form to that of certified milk as pro- vided by the National Association of | Medical Milk Commission. All Grade A milk must come from tubercu1n
 tested cows.
 The bottles must bear distinctive
 labelling on their caps so that the con-
 sumner can tell what he is buying and
 the cans must be painted distinctiYely
 so that the inspector can tell what he
 is supposed to be getting. The milk
 inspector must be able quickly and ac
 curately to tell whether a man with a
 milk can on the back of his wagon is
 selling at wholesale or at retail and
 the grade of milk to whose require mentS his product must conform. He
 has big job and he cannot afford the time it takes to stop and question every
 milk vendor and then not be able to
 tell whether the answers he gets are
 true. Anyone should see how easily
 this system will work and how diffi- cult or incomplete the work will be
 without it.
 The third distinctive feature of the , ordinance is the section requiring the health officer to score all the Grade A and Grade B milk on the dairy scores , the nutritive value (total solids) and
 the bacterial count. This is done not , only to secure more ready compliance , with the ordinance but to supply an in ducement to exceed the minimum re- , quirements, the presumption being that , the better milk will attract a larger trade or command higher price. II "The issuance of permits and the l grading of milk into general classes
 etc, are recommended by not only tht 7 New York milk committee, but by prac- tically all modern sanitary authorities
 The scoring of the individual dairies i. : not, so far as I have been able to as.
 certain, embodied in this way in an!
 municipal ordinance. pr. William c r Woodward, the health officer of thu = District of Columbia, suggested tn '. idea. personally believe it is an eX s cellent one and well worth trying.
 'I do not believe that the enforce = ment of this ordinance will entail un