The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-04
HUNDRED TELEPHONE CALLS
People Want to Know Identity of Men
Who Are Charged by the Health De-
partment With Peddling Unelean
Milk In the City.

The family milk man was under sus~
picion in Kenosha today and hundreds
of people sought the City Hall to get
information in regard to the analysis
of samples of milk which was made
public by the health department on
Tuesday. As a result of these investi-
cations it is certain that a lot of peo-
pie are going to have q new milk man.
Chemist Miller of the health depart
ment force, kept his ear at the tele-
phone for three hours this morning
answering calls just as rapidly as ne
could FsWho is number four EfWho
is number three, - 'FWhat milk man
is number s. and similar calls kept
drifting into the Office of the health
department. every minute of the day.
Chemist Miller and the other assist
ants in the department. had catalog-
ed list on the table all the time an1
the Identity of the milk men was given
Some of the patrons called at the City
Hall in person and these people were
taken to the laboratory and shown
card on which was sample of the
milk which had been taken from the
; sels u partica Hus sa;ss.
These samples showed just how much
sediment and dirt had been found in
the sample Of milk. Some of the cards
had a snow white disc in the corner,
others were pearl gray and still others
were pretty close to coal black. The
"coal black" cards were the ones that
the milk patrons took especial notice
of, as these showed very dirty milk
To all of this Chemist Miller was ready
with an answer.
ct am not telling people to change
milk men on account of the showing
made by this analysis Of the milk, -
he said. cit shows that lot of milk
sold in Kenosha is dirty, some of it
is probably dangerous to health. Tt
is true that the report is based on a
small number of samples. We have
made an effort to get five samples Of
milk from each dairy on which we
have reported and in most cases we
have based the report on this number
Of samples. Tt can be said that we
have found variations in both the
quality and cleanliness Of the milk
supplied by the various dairies. One of
them which showed rather unclean
milk this month made much better
showing last month and we are con-
WINGED that it will make even bet
ter showing in the coming months.
It is our plan to give to the people
report on the condition of the milk
every month and we expect that the
publicity will aid materially in getting,
better milk in Kenosha''
It was declared by officials that some
of the milk which is now being sold IN
Kenosha had failed to find purchaser
in the larger cities on account of the
fact that it was so dirty that it would
not be passed BIZ the Chicago Board of
Health. Local health officials deelar-
ed that they could make no statement
as to the truth of this statement.
With the publication of the results Of
the milk ess several Of the local milk
dealers are already planning to install
plants for Qualification and pasteuri-
cation. Tt is believed that in the near
future the demand for clean milk viii
be so strong in Kenosha that milk
men who refuse to furnish this kind
of milk win find it very hard to sell
their product.