New Britain herald., 1927-05-18

certain changes in procedure and by
 sonally. put the laboratory on an en- | tirely accredited basis. That is 10
 say. in the first place it is now ap- i proved for bacteriological analysis 1 by the state health department. It is ! also licensed by the state dairy and 1 food commissioner to sample or test milk and cream. It is further ap- ! proved and licensed by the state 1 health department for the same pur- !; pose. Besides New Britain there are i only five other cities in the state of Connecticut whose laboratories have these qualifications.
 There has been slight reduc- i tion in the receipts from the Slaugh- ter House this year. This was at first i rather difficult to explain but de-
 tailed study brought to light certain facts. In the first place the heaviest year of slaughtering occurred coin- cident with the time the city put
 into effect the ordinance requiring that all milk sold be either from tu- berculin tested herds or be pasteur-
 ized. This caused an immediate rush for tuberculir testing with the con- sequent destruction of q large num- Der of cattle. This meant a propor- tionately large influx of cattle to the Slaughter House because reactors
 could be bought very cheaply and , great number of them were not suf- 1ciently infected to interfere with their foot value. It must be under- stood, however. that all such cattle
 were very carefully inspected and none passed where there was any
 possible question as to their food value Further, during ,he year the changes in the Slaughter House were made and necessitated some drop off in the amount of cattle slaughtered. It seems logical to assume. however. that the amount of slaushtering will go back to it's former level and un- doubtedly increase during the com-
 ing year with the increased facili- ties offered at the Slaughter House.
 No Ovcrdrafts
 "F'inancially, the department has operated within its budget and com pleted the year with an unused bal ance of s1,727.44. By action of the board of finance and taxation $700 of this amount was transferred to the Street Department. As in pre- vious years the secretary. Miss Olive Keller, deserves commendation for the efficient manner in which she has handled all the records of the department.
 The matter of garbage disposal brought with it the usual disruptions at the end of the year. The contrac- tors terminated their contracts and the department was obliged to call for new bids and was also obliged to pay great deal more for garbage collection during the coming year. How the new arrangement will work out cannot be definitely pre- dicted at this time. However, it is the firm conviction of the writer that the present method of garbage dis posal is entirely inadequate and can not be continued on it's present basis. The city is so rapidly increasing in size that there remains no area within the city limits sufficiently large to take care of the entire city's garbage. This condition is no ones fault but is merely one Of those in- controvcrtible facts that develop as the city increases in size. We are prevented from disposing of our garbage outside of the City of New Britain and in consequence we must dispose of it within New Britain. There is but a small amount of available land within the city limits suitable for use for garbage dis 1 posal, and in fact the writer ven- lures to predict that the amount of available land will not .ast the year out.
 The answer to this condition is obvious. Some method of garbage disposal within the city limits must | be devised. It was because of the | realization of this fact that com mittee of the common council was appointed this year by his honor, the mayor, to investigate the ad- visibility of installing an incinera- tor for the disposal of garbage and | rubbish. It is quite possible that the present arrangement may take care of the garbage for perhaps this | year, but every possible effort must be made to secure the installation of an incinerator at the earliest pos sible time.
 Year of Progress
 Tn summarizing the work for the year the writer feels that the de- partment has carried out in every detail the work which it outlined at the beginning of the year. As will no special appropriation for new work was asked at the beginning of this year and the reason was stated, namely, that the department realiz- cd itself to be but one unit in a | large group which make up the city l government, and felt that while a | certain amount of money was re- quired for expansion this expansion | should be limited to the necessity It | was felt then, and is still felt, that | great deal can be done along edu- cational lines by small increases in appropriation to cover publicity and . printing expenses without the addi- | ton of more employees. This policy | seems sound in fact has proved it- !