Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-10
City and County Officials Use Dramatic Means to Protect City from Tainted Food of Medigovich Dairy.
NEARLY 100 GALLONS
 DESTROYED UNDER LAW
Dairyfolks Charge Unfairness. Health Authorities Insist on Pure Milk or Diaries Must Shut Up Shop.

Finding that two given samples of of the Medigovich Dairy, were not up to the standard and contained water. the county board of health yesterday afternoon ordered the entire autoload of milk, consisting of nearly one hun dred gallons of the fluid, emptied in the sewer. Aided by city and county officers, Dr. Cleveland H. Hunt, county health officer, and pr. Ralph H. Her endeen, city physician, emptied bot les and cans into the subway amid the plaudits of a large crowd which was on hand to cheer for Pure Milk"
 That the campaign of the city and county health departments looking to- ward the betterment of the milk sup ply in the Warren District is sincere, was amply demonstrated last evening.
 DEFIES CITY?
 Friday morning Dr. R. 8. Durfee,
 the city and county bacterioioaist,
 had secured a milk sample from
 the Medigovich Dairy. According
 to pr. Durfee, Medigovich de-
 cIared that he watered his milk
 and would continue to do if he de-
 sired. The officers and doctors
 tried to catch the dairyman as he
 came into Bisbee from his milk
 ranch Friday night. He got by, however, and the raid was post. poned.
 Method That Works.
 Yesterday afternoon the delivery auto was caughtlas it entered Bis bee. The milk, in cans and in bottles, was stacked high on the little machine. The car was ordered driven to the Central school. With the dairyman in the machine was his daughter. Dr. Durfee took two samples of the milk and made immediate tests of them and found each lacking in one respect and containing water in each instance.
 While the tests were being made E. J. Flanigan, attorney for the Medigo- vich Dairy, was called and appeared on the scene. He was informed that the health department was operating under a certain law which gave it the right to destroy impure food. No op- position was offered when the machine was driven to the subway entrance and the contents thrown away.
 Says Doctors Unfair.
 Miss Medigovich, while the tests were being made in the laboratory, de clared that their milk was perfectly good and up to standard in every way. She added that it was merely someone trying to run the small operators out of business in the District.
 The Doctors Side.
 Both Dr. Herendeen and Dr. Hunt are determined that the sale of i'm. pure or watered milk must stop.
 ''The trouble with taking the matter through the law courts" said Dr. Her endeen last evening. "is that the trial in every case is greatly delayed and in the meantime, the dairyman goes right on selling bad milk We have found another way out of the question. The board of health can destroy inn pure food Such as we destroyed this afternoon is impure and any more that we find in like condition will suffer the same fate"
 Canned Milk O. K.
 ''If we can not get good milk for our sick and our infants to drink" said Dr. Hunt, Let us go back and drink canned milk. That, at least. is sterilized. There is no reason for bad milk being sold. If it is so that the dairymen cannot make living with but doctoring their milk, then they will have to fail. We can not afford to sacrifice the possible health of our people because a few men must make a living by selling a questionable article of food.