Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-19
CONFERENCE ON
MILK SITUATION
IN WILMINGTON
Health Committee Of City Council
Suggests That the Proposed
Ordinance be Studied.
LACKING IN REGULATIONS

| health committee concerning the local
milk situation.
Councilman Mulvena disscntcd. gay
ing Council by adopting the recommended
tions in the report would be usurpmg the
city Board of Health. :.
Councilman Abrahams said Council
wanted the city and State Boards nj
Health to cooperate and would ask them
to attend n confer ence
The report follows:
'sYour bealtl, committee has been in
ycstiuating the local milk situation ever
since, with its co-upcratiOn, the present
system of inspecting milk was inauFuraaed
Changes affecting such vital subject
should naturally be connGerCd from All
angles, and conclusions should not be de-
rived too hastily.
fIn comparison with other progressive
cities We arc lacking ia several milk re-
qulrements
/ We do not feel, however. that We should
immediately adopt new mix ordinances
but that tho subject should I've care
fully studied and tbs committee or
Counci. ms a whole should hear al! n
terested So that whatever ordinances src
! adopted will work without fnotion and be
benefit TO sil concerned.
Investigation shows that Wilmington
| 10 be on a standard with other rrugrossive
! cities shculd consider the following points.
ANY new ordinances to he worth while
! should contain these facts
| eve s,Igg,,at that all interested IN bet
| ter milk for Wilmington give Iouncli
| The bene.t Of their experience and ideli.
I Recommendation
/ "i. Grades Of mix Milk should be
/ graded and corspiCuoufly iahtlied wlt'l
+ tic grades and with tie dealers name and
| whether raw or pastcurlzed and day OF
! pasteurization.
-. Grade A Grade 4 may be eit'cr
rnw or pastcurl2cd If raw il must come
| onlv from COWS that are free from disease
! 81 determined by a tubcTculn test and
| Ihysicai examination and should he pro-
duccd and handled by emp!oyc7 tree
from disease rs determined by medical
examination. and 1t should he produced
/ under such sanitary conditions that tht
bacteria count saall not exceed l0l0of
(this should be $1,000 At the time of
delivery The daIrics should score II
least 50 on the government score carl
Certified milk should come under this
class. ard special provisions should bc
made for its sale
Grade pastcurizcd must come from
cows free from disease az determined bN
uhySical examinations, but need not be
from tested COWS, and should he produced
and handled under such sanitary con
ditions that the bacteria could at no time
before pasteuriza.Ion exceed 2OO,COn nor
after pasteurization 10000. The dairIes
should score at least 65.
Grade b. There should be no rsw milk
in this grade The bacteria count should
not exceed 100000 at any time before
pastcurizatlon. nor 50, 600 when delivered
to the consumer The COWS need not he
tested but should &c examined by com
petent yetcTina-ia ian. Inc aaTIcs should
score at least 50.
80. Cream. Cream should BE- graded IN
conformity with the grades Of the mdk
from which it Is oh.ained, but the hacJe "a
counts may be five times rs high As the
corespoEdiug z counts ~ milk.
'f3 TasteurIza.ion should be performed .
Only by the boldiag Iletlr'd hat Is
holding the milk At approximately 1862.
for 80 minutes, a1d an such pants should
be equipped with aulcn-atIc tenpefa l.c
regulators and recording thermometers.
Il Tempe58 ture. silk sho.ld be coJlel
to tempe atuic Of 80 oT below y sooa IS
possible after milking and kept at tia:
temperature uEtli delivered TO the con
sumner.
IS. Sterilization There should be q
that every mdh bottilng ard
plant be provided with steam
under pressure for cleansing and stcrlllzlng
purposes.
70. Dipped milk No dipped milk should
be permitted except on 2ecIal permit FOR
stores that handle only dairy products
and then only under special conditions
III milk should be placed Il the conta.ners
In which it IS delivered at the regular bot
Hing or r1aste3trIZiTg plant.
y. Time Of delivery. ttli pasteur'zed 5
milk should be delivered within 81 hours
after pasteurlaation-
IS. Ice cream. Ice cream should be
only from grades Of mix
and cream that can legally be sid Is
such, and proper provisions should be
made for tie sanitation 0f manufacturing
plants.
80. General sanitation. Existing reg
gulations regarding air, space, hight, yea
tilation ard cleanliness OF stables should
be changed
40 Tests and physical examinations
should be permitted b. any veterinarian
who might be sent by the milk Inspector.
and all cows that pass the tubercullu test
should be tagged with non-renlovabie
COW tag. Eeactors should also bc per-
marked.
MIX INSPECTOR fItI1Glb GnDl1iLttQ Tie
following report Of milk exanlnat on work
for the week ended yesterday
Results obtained from the analyses
Of the samples of milk collected during the
past week are appended. Attention IS
called 70 the fact that ss soon as the dealers
first knew thst their names were to be
published together with the reSult-,
whether good or bad. there was ma ked
in may Of the supplies
" hercss in many cases bacteria counts
5ere in the millions when the inspector
irst began, the greater majority of the
,amples are now fairly low in bactecia
count
"The greater portion Of the milk
lIpplies of the l9rgc cities Of the couot;y
: made safe by pasteu'ization, and this
method has been considered Of such I'M
,or tance by the United States bureau Of
.nimal industry that it has just issued
special circular on the subject, Of which
he following are abstracts:
"The greatest feature of the process
+ pasteu1ization properly performed IS
hat it causes an additional degree Of
afety in milk even when il has been pro
uced aud handled under the most
Elective system Of inspection.
''Thc term 'pasteuTlzatl0n a. app i u
0 milk should mean q ptocesr of hc:.1ir.s
B 1870 Il and holding 1T that tcri4 rorgture
DR. 30 minutes. An occasional vasia ion
/ two degrees above or below this telnuer
ture may be allowed under commercial