Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1916-01-27
MAY BAR RAW
MILK FROM CITY
AS PROBE RESULT
Investigation Shows $4,000
Quarts of Impure Milk
Reach Here Daily.

Action to protect Newark residents
from impure milk, a state and city
investigation has disclosed is being
sent into Newark. was taken today
by DIR. Charles V. Craster, acting
health officer Twenty -eight dealers
whose dairy sales are nearly e,00C
quarts, have been prohibited from
selling raw milk in the city. AL
| though less than one-fourth of the
cattle supplying Newark with raw
milk have been examined this num-
ber of dealers have been found to
have been selling dangerous milk
| DIR. Craster said the situation is SO
serious that It may result in the total
abolition of the sale of raw milk in
the city. "As result of the discov-
cries made in this inspection, l per-
sonally would refuse to drink any
| hut pasteurized milk" he told the
! Evening Star.
| Twenty EIGHT dealers whose milk
| has been barred from the city have
| secured their supply from nine dairy
men, all of Union and Irvington. In
the establishment of everyone of the
nine diseased cattle have been found.
A can of milk contains forty quarts.
If each COW gives ten or twelve
| quarts the milk from three of four
separate animals is mixed in each
can. If twelve quarts of impure
milk from a diseased COW are part
of the cans contents, naturally the
whole forty quarts are contaminated.
| In this way, 1t is believed, no less
than $4,000 quarts of dangerous milk
have been sold in Newark daily for
no one knows how long. Physicians
see in this discovery an explanation
of the large number of ailments
traceable to milk which have been
reported to them.
Dr. Thomas N. Gray, head of the
bureau of tuberculosis, gave an in
stance of how a millkman can be a
murderer. He stated a fifteen-year-
old boy had come to him suffering
from tuberculosis and that the case
had been most strange because both
the lads grandparents and his par
ents are alive and utterly free from
tubercular taint. No other member
of the family has the disease. The
explanation came when Ii was dis
discovered the boy had been a heavy
milk drinker. Presumably he drank
milk from the same dairy day after
day. and that dairy's milk herd con-
tanned diseased cattle.
The milk dealers are themselves
eager for an end to be put to present
conditions and have offered the Board
of Health this week to give all the
assistance they can in cleaning up the
city's milk supply.
The reasons Chief Inspector Samuel
G. Sharwell assigns for the presence
of bad milk in the supply are that
arit, rio doif if.xy-
men are careless, or worse. Every
COW is by law inspected by a veteri-
marian and a report filed with the
Board of Health. The investigation
by the State and local authorities have
revealed these reports as utterly un-
reliable. Diseased cattle supposed to
have been excluded from herds are
discovered to be still giving milk.
Tags identifying sick and healthy ami
mails have been indiscriminately ap
piled so that they have no significance.
The milk dealers have offered the
Board of Health to have fresh ex-
aminations made, by veterinarians
approved by the board, under the
boards supervision in every dairy
from which they secure their milk, at
their own expense. Then they will
refuse to purchase milk from any
dairyman who attempts to evade the
law, and the health authorities will
refuse to permit anyone who does pur-
chase from that dairyman to sell any
milk in the city.
Discoveries during inspection trips
in the past two weeks have been such
that the inspectors thought they had
found about everything they could
possibly dig up, but something new
was disclosed yesterday. Every COW
was properly tagged and described i'll
this particular herd. The inspectors
thought that at last they had found
good dairy. But it developed that
some of the cows were reported as
tubercular, and as having been
tagged as such, with the supposition
that they had been removed from the
herd. Examination disclosed that the
animals were still in the herd, sick as
ever, and giving as much milk as
ever. 1t was the most open viola
tion yet encountered. Usually dis
eased cattle are at least protected by
tags stating they are healthy.
The dairymen whose milk is ex-
cluded from the city by the order is
sued today are David Meltzer, of
Fortieth street and StuyVesant ave-
nue., Irvington; Nolde Brothers. OF
Stuyvesant avenue and Fortieth
street, 1fVlnBtOn, ana tHeSe Ohioh
dairymen: Fred Kreuger, Stuy-
vesant avenue; Frank Jarvis. STAN
ley terrace; Vincent Zemeresky.
Stanley terrace; Abraham Bardy,
Spruce street; Marcus Levine. Nor
ris avenue: John Glubochansky,
Spruce street; b. sShusterman, Stuy-
vesant avenue.
Two other dairymen whose output
is barred from the city are Charles
Fine, of Spruce street and Morris ave-
nue., Union. and George Hastings, OF
Boyden avenue, South Orange town.
ship.
Yesterdays inspection was made by
Chief Chemist william G. Tice, OF the
State health department; DR.. Isaac
II. Shaw, State veterinarian; DIT
Werner Runge, city veterinarian, and
Chief Inspector Sharwell. Two dairies
with seventy-one COWS were ex-
amined. Ten animals were suspected
of tuberculosis and samples We're
taken.
The party discovered some dealers
are attempting to outwit the law by
exchanging cattle. Dairymen who
learned the investigating party was
on it's way to their dairies attempted
to dispose of cattle to neighbors. one
man confessed to D=. Runge that he
had sold four cattle he knew to be
diseased, which he had been milking
every day.