The times-news., 1936-06-20
CITY HEALTH OFFICER ISSUES
FINAL WARMING AS TO SALE
OF MEAT. MILK NOT INSPECTED
Cleanliness of Stables in
City Also Comes in for
Word of Warning From
City Authority
By NOAH HOLLOWELL

DR.. R. f. Taylor, meat inspec-
tor and regulator of sanitation
and public health, gives warning
that the city has reached the
point where it must become "hard
boiled" in the matter of enforc-
ing laws that govern the health
of the community.
DR.. Taylor says that the selling
of milk without a permit in Hen
Jacksonville simply means that
trouble is ahead.
Indictment No. 2 comes against
those who sell buttermilk without
grading it.
Prohibition No. 8 is against the
dispensers of veal.
Condemnation No. A is against
the keeping of unciean cow sta
bles within the city limits.
DR.. Taylor says the city has
health regulations against all
these violations and has been in
dulging citizens in the hope of
persuading them to observe regu-
lations provided for the public's
protection.
He says that milk sold from
private barns in or out of the city
where there are no sanitary regu-
lations is dangerous, at the best,
and that this must be discontinued
unless permit is given him to do
so-and that calls for further talk
and regulations which the one or
two-cow owner will not comply
with.
DR.. Taylor says it is violation
of the local laws to sell butter
milk that is not Graded. He says
he will continue to permit the sale
in small quantities for individual
family use but that buttermilk
produced without permit and reg
ulations and sold to food estab-
lishments such as restaurants,
boarding houses and hotels must
be discontinued. He adds that the
buyer as we'll as the seller Vlo-
lates the law.
As to farmers or dairymen sell
ing veal-well, that's another
painful chapter.
A calf is born unto a farmer
The calf milks the cow for a week
or ten days and then the family
is ready to do the milking and
the poor little calf finds its way
to the consuming public. DIR. Tay-
lor doesn't want calf brought IN
to the market for his stamp of
health inspection until six weeks
old and we'll nourished. Taking
care of a calf, after the family,
instead of the calf, assumes the
milking role, is a very delicate
lob and the calf is the sufferer
and becomes undernourished and
the owner wants to rush 1T to the
market rather than care for it un-
til six weeks old. The meat in
spector says veal has been brought
in a day or so old and even some
has been found for sale that was
born dead. The market violates
the law when it offers meat with
out the health inspectors stamp
The veal when too young IS not
firm but flabby, watery and pretty
much without form.
And the cow-the urban COW
the cow that lows lonesomely,
wistfullv and long-the cow that
only the owner prizes-the cow
that produces half the flies in the
community, is the subject that
bobs up ever and anon and espe-
cially in damp weather when the
odors of the cow lot permeate the
air and the flies swarm there
about. When the protests get high
and vigorous enough to DR.. lay
lor, Chief Powers and Mayor Ed
wards, then something has to be
done but that's a troublesome ami,
NAL that even enters the political
realm, and is harder to down
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