The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-01

of Kentucky Tennessee. Alabama and | Mississippi
 | Pasteurizing plants have not reduced the cost of milk to consumers in Mont gomery. Birmingham. Atlanta and other ! cities
 Birmingham is paying ss 50 per hun- ] dred and selling at IS and % cents per quart.
 Atlanta is paying s6.4O per hundred and selling at 20 to 25 cents per quart. 1 If this ordinance is enforced. we will
 be compelled to ship our milk to Atlan- ta until we can dispose of our herds. Bessemer has not had a case of ty- 1 phoid fever for several months, and yet Birmingham has had a slight increase in typhoid over last year, yet she has three pasteurifiing plants. The dirtiest milk that has been brought to our no- | tice was pasteurized milk, containing balls of hair, dead flies, and other dirt | when delivered for distribution. There has not been case of typhoid fever traced to milk supplied by the local dairymen within 10 years Al- though the health officer stated to the city commission that he had definitely traced the Eleventh avenue outbreak to a dairy over Red mountain but failed to shut it up because he feared a dam age suit.
 The typhoid outbreak in 1916 was definitely traced to milk shipped in i from dairy in Shelby county. Govern ment experts who investigated here at that time reported local conditions good and complimented the department on ! the conditions.
 Johns Hopkins hospital sent two ex- perts here last spring to investigate the stomach and bowel troubles among the children. They reported to the med ical society that they could not lay the blame to the milk supply. The high costs of milk in Birmingham is due to high prices for feed, labor, etc. The per capita of milk in Birmingham Is 1t least 30 per cent more than re- ported by the health officer. The low per capita of milk consumed is due to three causes First, cost; second, the continued knocking by the health offi- cer; third, supply.
 The health officer has willfully neg iected his duty to the public and the 1 dairymen thereby causing porer milk and bad conditions. The health officer was the first to suggest the lowering of the fat content in milk, thus giving the public poorer milk.
 The health department failed to give one dairyman cooperation in finding i the cause for bad conditions in his dairy, when they knew of the facts and requested by the said dairyman to help locate the trouble.
 The health officer caused to be passed, in the city of Fairfield the most drastic ordinance of any city in the United States for the expressed purpose of putting one dairyman out of busi ness, because he had the nerve to op- pose him. when the health officer knew that said dairyman could and would produc emilk that would comply with any reasonable ordinance.
 Dr. Bowling repeatedly told the writer that "he (Dowling) was not after the writer; that the writer's milk was good: that he was after others" The writer told the city commission of this in Dowling's presence. Dowling's reply was: 'Ill never tell you that again
 committee of the Civic association, White. MT James Weatherly, pr. El- kourie and others. including MT. John Yeatman. present manager of the Holly wood Pasteurizing plant, as members refused to indorse the proposed ordi nance. Forty reputable doctors stated over their own signatures that 100,0 ,000 bacteria to the c. C. was safe milk
 A committee of the Chamber of Com merce, Dr. F. P. Hogan, chairman; Mir Paul Earle. and others, I don't remem- Der the names failed to indorse the then proposed milk ordinance
 The above facts will be substantiated if called on by
 w E. MATTHEW'S.
 Birming ham, January 29, 1920.