The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-13
flee, the city's inspection of milk was
little better than a farce

flee. the city's inspection of milk was
little better than a farce.
Porter began studying the milk
question He read everything he could
get hold of on the subject, learned how
other cities were doing, and he sought
advice of persons who should know.
linen he secured Dr. Leslie ROwleS,
graduate veterinarian, as milk inspect
or. Next he asked of the city an al
loWance for proper laboratory equip
ment- Then he discovered that al
though DR.. Rowles is an expert bacter-
fologist, that there was more work
than one person could do. One per-
son could not inspect all the diaries,
see that all cows were healthy and
free of tuberculosis and other diseases,
gather samples once month from
every dairy and milk depot, and in
addition to this do all the laboratory
work, SO Miss Annetta Nicoll, formerly
instructor in bacteriology in the State
College of Washington, located at
Pullman, Wash, was employed as an
alyst in the laboratory. In Miss Nicol1,
the city has an expert whose findings
of samples of milk submitted to her
go When her reports say there
were certain number of bacteria to
the cubic centimeter of milk in sam
pies examined by her, it is pretty
safe guess that the report is correct
Much OF the work done in the city
laboratory has been checked indepen-
IDENTIFY by work on like samples sub
mitted to psychologists at the State
Agricultural college and at Kansas
University and the reports from the
three laboratories have agreed so re-
markedly that they not only verify
the work done in the Topeka 1abora-
tory, but also set at rest skeptical as
sertions that there is nothing in a
bacterial count
DR.. Leslie RowIes
There is no buster man on the city
pay roll than DIR. Leslie Rowles city
milk inspector, for not only must he
be on the alert for violations of the
citys ordinance regulating the keep
ing and sale of milk, but he must at
least once each month intercept every
peddling milk in the city
and secure sample bottle of milk tax
en- at random from the wagon, and
then in fairness to the dairyman, he
must hurry to the city laboratory and
start the sample through the tests
without delay. TO- bacteria multiply
rapidly He has found an automobile
a necessity.
All milk retailed in Topeka must
be in sealed bottles. Dipping from
cans is not permitted. Milk depots
must be kept clean and there must be
plenty of sunlight. But DR.. Rowles'
activities are not confined to the linn
It's OF the city He must drive out in
the country and inspect the dairies !
and the cows. He has authority to /
demand that cows suspected of tuber-
culosIs be examined and if found to be I
diseased, the sale of milk from them +
Is stopped and the animals condemned I
and slaughtered The city ordinance I
does not require that all cows from
winch milk is sold in Topeka be tested /
Tor tuberculosis, but it does require /
that milk from cows not so tested be /
la beled on the bottles The result of I
this is that most dairymen have had /
their cows tested.
Score Card Device
A score card has been devised and /
each dairy visited is scored and the /
card filed away. a record is also /
kept of all cows tested for tubercu- /
lOsis- There is also a score card sys-
tenn kept of samples of milk examined. /
This score card for milk has largely !
been worked out by DR. Rowles and /
is proving so satisfactory other cities I
are copying it. All these records are
filed away in a card index system and !