Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-06-10
MILK RESPONSIBLE. FOR
HIGH DEATH RATE

Cincinnati, June 9.-ln an address
before the American Association OF
Medical Milk Inspectors today, DR.. j.
II. Lands, OF Cincinnati, discussing
Pure Milk--Its Influence on NUM-
cipalitys General Death Rate" de-
voted himself chiefly to presenting
facts tending to show that the reduc-
ton in !, the death rate of munich
pality brought about by the purifica.
ton of its milk supply, is practically
the same as that caused by it's change
from a polluted to a pure water sup
ply. In Cincinnati, he said, the aver
age yearly saving of lives by compel
ling a pure milk supply was 453.
Wholesale assassination Of Gin
cinnati's infant population, he said,
had been carried on for years, when
the milk industry was largely in the
hands of dairymen who fed their
cows almost exclusively on distillery
slop. Cows were chained with their
noses in a slop trough from the time
they were received in the fold until
they passed into the hands of the
butcher. The dairy barns We're dark
and reeking with liquid manure. The
COWS were plastered with this ma
terial, as were many of the workmen,
and the finished product had gen
erous supply when it reached the con-
Stunning public. What had been &C
complished in changing these condi-
tons had been chiefly made possible
by employing on full time as health
officers competent specialists under
a non-partisan board of health.
The Cincinnati plan eliminated milk
inspection by a physician on part time
and placed it in the hands OF grad
uate in veterinary medicine on full
time. r. B. Blume, D. V. S., an en-
ploye of the United States Bureau of
Animal Industry, was chosen, and to
his industry, hont"ty, and courage
the results obtained are larely due.
One of the Cincinnati regulations
gives the health officer the authority /
to dump milk that shows visible sedi-
ment IN the containe,. THIS regula-
ton was rigidly enforced against
those who persis!ontly fc"sht all at
tempts at Improvement. Milk per-
mits ware revoked, aad in numerous
instances prosecution in police court
drew fines ranging from twenty-five to
four hundred cCl'ars. In a few in
stances, perfectly "espectables gt'tle
men had opportunities in the quit of
the city Jail, to mediate on the uncer-
tainties of milk producers career.
Formerly prosecution meant little
temporary, cheap notoriety, with a
tenge of martyrdom thrown in; now,
if man is arrested for some other
gross violation of the regulations, he
loses caste in his community and is
classified as a cheap crook or plain
''bonehead."
Compelling proprietors Of restaur-
ants, saloons, hotels, etc, to serve
milk to customers in the original seal
ed pack lge met with the unqualified
approval of the public.
Opposition to pasteurization was
pronounced at first, but at the present
time il anyone desired to start riot
backed exclusively by the milk indus
try, the one sure way would be to try
to eliminate pasteurization in Cincin-
natl. Through pasteurization, the
dealers have practically eliminated all
waste and have completely escaped
outbreaks OF milk-borne infection,
with attendant loss of trade. In over
year, not one case Of typhoid fever,