Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-04
EVENING STAR
MILK STATION
IN OPERATION
First of Number Opened at $40
Market Street-Prepara-
ton for Others.
LITERATURE GIVEN FOR
BENEFIT OF PURCHASERS
Grade A, Pasteurized, Sold
at Cost of dip
Milk"

The Evening Star Milk Station No.
is open for business at $40 Market
street.
It is housed In a light, well-ven-
tilated room back of the grocery
store of M. Krasner, which is now
transformed into sanitary milk de-
partment
The once dirty floor has been tn )r-
oughly cleaned and covered with oil
cloth. The windows are washed and
protected by shades and screens. The
walls are painted A screen do>r sep
arates this room from the store with
out. There is no such a plant for the
sale of milk in all that populous sec
tion.
A table with literature pertaining to
milk and the proper methods of car
ing for it stands at one side, and
there are several chairs for the ac-
commodation of customers.
Sanitary Milk Tanks.
rhe milk is dispensed from a silver
plated copper tank, which cost $575
and was generously loaned to the
Evening Star by the Borden's Con-
densed Milk Company. 1t is not
dipped from the tank, but drawn from
it through a faucet especially con-
structed with view to sanitation.
Containers to Be sterilized.
Before the customer is supplied his
pitcher or can is dipped into boiling
water, and then cooled, so that all
germs adhering to it's surface are de-
stroyed. The Public Service Gas Com
pany has installed the sterilizing ap-
aratus for The Evening Star gratuit-
ously.
Source of the Milk.
The milk itself comes from the Bor
den creamery at Papakating, n. j.,
about fifty miles from Newark, and Is
produced in dairies which, according
to New York city inspection, score 65
! or above. 1t Is pasteurized at the
creamery and shipped direct to New
ark with a bacterial content of less
than 10000 to the cubic centimeter and
the practical certainty that it con-
tains no disease germs. 1t Is clean,
wholesome milk, which like all Grade
! A pasteurized milk sells everywhere
| in Newark at 10 cents quart.
! Price of the Milk.
! In the Milk Statement of the Eve
ming Star, its price is six cents
quart.
At this price every quart costs the
Evening Star a cent or two. although
for the sake of the charity the Bor-
denis Condensed Milk Company has
made a price that Is below the cost
of production. The only purpose in
it's sale is to give people who are
forced to use the abominable dip
r1,illrtb For, xyhIoh thnxy uiY
an opportunity to obtain wholesome
milk for the same money.
Clean Milk and Public Health.
This is matter vital to the public
health. Milk from unclean dairies,
and improperly handled, is a med
ium through which many a deadly
epidemic has been spread. 1t Is al
ways dangerous to the consumer no
matter what his age or how hardy
he may be. 1t invariably contains
the colon bacillus, a second cousin of
the typhoid germ, and may be in
fected with the bacteria that produce
tuberculosis, typhoid and a multitude
of other deadly maladies.
In the udder of the healthy COW
milk is probably. without bacteria.
1t is so delicate, however, such per-
feet food, that germs multiply in it
with rapidity that is amazing.
How Milk Is Polluted.
When unclean hands extract it from
the udder, when the milking is done
in a filthy barn, or the milk. once
drawn, Is subjected to any contamn-
alton, or even exposed to the air, bac-
terra enter and flourish. If the fluid
Is not kept cold these bacteria quick
ly increase. This writer has known
milk to contain more than 100000 900
4, IL
that milk was produced in Newark,
too.
"Dip Milk"
Much Of the dip milk sold in the lit
tie stores is from dairies that score
less than forty out Of q possible 100
1t is not properly handled before il Is
placed on sale. 1t is worse mlstreated
afterwards In many instances, too,
the abuse is worse after 1t enters the
house. The inevitable result is that
in the majority of cases, when used
1t is utterly unfit for human corsump-
ton.
1t looks right. 1t may look per-
fectly clean, but 1t swarms with the
invisible germs that play-havoc with
health and often place life in danger.
"DIp MIX" and the Poor.
1t is one of the irones of fate that
the people who have the very least to
fortify their systems against the in
roads of disease and other germs, are
the ones who are usually unable to
purchase pure milk.
The very poor are confined to
meagre diet. They have the least to
protect them from the extremes of
heat and cold. They live in narrow
streets, in crowded tenements, and
have little access to pure, fresh air
is- ba
which thus shuts them in to humble
fare and unfavorable environment
that forces them to buy dip milk,
if they buy milk at all
Adults may drink this milk without
serious consequences for years, but
the babies who are forced to it in
stead of the maternal breast
especially in the heat of summer
cannot and do not escape injury. Too
often they die from the disorders that
are directly ascribable to the bacteria
in the milk
For the sake of the Babies.
1t is for the babies, as well as for
their elders, that The Star is in
augurating these milk stations in the
crowded sections of the city 1t is
for the babies primarily that an ap-
peal is made to the well-to-do to aid
in the work. 1t is hoped TO furnish
clean milk to hundreds who are now
using dirty milk. The Star has a
laudable ambition to teach the
methods by which milk may be
properly handled at the store and in
the home, and literature bearing upon
the subject will be distributed from
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