Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-10
CLEAN AND PURE MILK DECREASES
 NUMBER DEATHS
Purification of Milk Supply Saves 453 Lives Annually
 in Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, June 9.-In an address
 before the American Association o1 Medical Milk Inspectors today, Dr. J
 H. Landis, of Cincinnati, discussing "Pure Milk-Its Influence on a Mu. nicipality's General Death Rate," de. voted himself chiefly to presenting facts tending to show that the reduc. tion in the death rate of a municipal. ity brought about by the qualification of it's milk supply, is practically the same as that caused by its change from palluted to pure water sup. ply. In Cincinnati, he said, the aver. age yearly saving of lives by compell. ing pure milk supply was 453.
 Wholesale assassination of Gin. cinnati's infant population, he said hac
 been carrie don for year, when the
 milk industry was largely in the hands
 of dairymen who fed their cows al
 most exclusively on distillery slop
 Cows were chained with their noses
 in a slop through from the time they
 were received in the farm until they passed into the hands of the butcher
 The dairy barns were dark and reek- ing with liquid manure. The COWS were plastered with this material, as were many of the workmen, and the finished product had a generous SUD- ply when it reached the consuming public. What had been accomplished in changing these conditions had been chiefly made possible by employing on full time as health officers compe- tent specialists under a bipartisan board of health.
 The Cincinnati plan eliminated milk inspection by physician on part time and placed it in the hands of a gradu- ate in veterinary medicine on full time. R. B. Blume, D. V. S., an em. ployee of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, was chosen, and to his industry, honesty, an dcourage the results obtained are largely due.
 One of the Cincinnati regulations gives the health officer the authority to dump milk that shows visible sedi- ment in the container. This regula- ton was rigidly enforced against those who consistently fought all at tempts at improvement. Milk permits were revoked, and in numerous in- stances prosecution in police court drew fines ranging from $2O to $4O0. In few instances, perfectly respect able gentlemen had opportunities in the quiet of the city jail, to mediate on the uncertainties of a milk pro- ducer's career. Formerly prosecution meant a little temporary, cheap notoriety, with jingle of martyrdom thrown in; now, if man is arrested for some other gross violation of the regulations, he loses caste in his com munity and is classified as a cheap crook or a plain "bonehead."
 Compelling proprietors of restau- rants, saloons, hotels, etc, to serve sealed package met with the unquali- fled approval of the public.
 Opposition to pasteurization was pronounced at first, but at the pres ent time if anyone desired to start a riot backed exclusively by the milk industr, the one sure way would be to try to eliminate pasteurization in Gin cinnati. 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 a year, not one case of typhoid fever,