MILKHOUSE-Construction.-Tight, sound floor, and not connected with any other building, well lighted, well ventilated, 2; if connected with another building under good conditions, 1; otherwise, 0; if no milkhouse, 0...... Equipment. Hot water for cleaning utensils, 1; cooler, 1; proper pails and strainers used for no other purposes, 1. Cleanliness.-Interior clean, 5; good condition, 4; medium, 3; fair, 2; poor, 1; bad, 0...... Care and cleanliness of utensils.-Clean, 3; kept in milkhouse or suitable outside rack, 2; otherwise, 0...... Water-supply.—If pure and clean running water, 5; pure and clean still water, 3; otherwise, 0...... MILKING-Attendants.-Healthy, 5; otherwise, 0. HANDLING THE MILK-Prompt and efficient cooling.-If prompt, 5; if (iced), 5; good protection, 4; partly protected, 2; otherwise, 0...... 5 SCORE. If total score is 90 or above and each division 85 per cent. perfect or over, the dairy is Excellent. If total score is 80 or above and each division 75 per cent. perfect or over, the dairy is Good. If total score is 70 or above and each division 65 per cent. perfect or over, the dairy is Fair. If total score is below 70 and any division is below 65 per cent. perfect, the dairy is Poor. Commercial pasteurization of milk for the purpose of prolonging the period during which it will remain salable has recently been widely adopted in New Jersey, and its disadvantages have already appeared. The demand on the part of creamerymen and milk dealers for cleanly conditions on dairy premises is less urgent than formerly, for the keeping qualities of the milk can now be increased by passing the milk through the heating apparatus, and therefore one of the strongest aids in the effort to obtain improvements on dairy premises has been in part withdrawn. "By heating the milk the beneficient bacteria are destroyed, while noxious bacteria may be preserved to proliferate later, and, moreover, chemical changes of an undesirable character are produced in milk by heat. Commercially pasteurized milk should be prohibited by law or ordinance unless the process is under official control.”1 Experience has shown that the provisions of chapter 126 of the laws of 1903, which are intended to prevent the use of polluted water on dairy premises for washing milk cans, bottles and untensils, is not well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed. This act fixes a penalty for the use of the polluted water, but the evidence necessary to secure a conviction requires testimony to show that the water used is actually taken from the polluted source, and such evidence can rarely be obtained by ordinary methods. In cases where the dairyman denies that he is taking water from the polluted well the inspector is compelled to resort to detective practices and to suddenly appear, with his witness, when the water is being used in violation of the law. He must not only see it used, but he must see it collected from the polluted well. To get cvidence of this character is not only extremely difficult, but usually impossible, and in the efforts to obtain it much valuable time is necessarily expended. It is therefore desirable that a change be made in the law which will provide that polluted wells on dairy premises, where milk is produced for sale, shall be filled with clean earth and abandoned as sources of watersupply, and to require that all other sources of polluted water supplied on dairy premises or in shops or depots where milk is sold shall be cut off. Very great improvement in the degree of cleanliness with which the business of collecting and distributing milk is conducted has resulted from the inspection of dairies and the communications which have been sent to dairymen, and it will unquestionably be advisable to continue this work. Thus far these inspections have been made from time to time, as opportunity has permitted, by the assistant inspectors of food, but the value of the service which has been rendered has shown that the public interests will be promoted by providing additional inspectors who will devote their entire time to this duty. At a meeting of the State board of health, held May 21st, 1907, the following resolutions were adopted: 1 Journal A. M. A., September 21st, 1907. "WHEREAS, The inspection of dairies in New Jersey for the purpose of preventing the sale of milk from diseased animals, and to secure improvement of defects which may be observed in the water-supply, the construction, ventilation, lighting and drainage of cow stables and milkhouses, and for the establishment of a high standard of cleanliness in the collection and handling of milk, has been continuously performed under the direction of this board during the past twelve years, and records of these inspections are now on file in this office. "WHEREAS, The reports of these inspections have been followed by letters of advice to the owner or tenant where conditions on dairy premises have been found defective, and as a result of these measures improvements have been made in many localities in the conditions under which milk is produced and distributed. "WHEREAS, The commissioner of health of the city of New York has stationed one of his agents in Sussex county, New Jersey, and said agent has, for several months, been engaged in the inspection of the dairies from which milk is shipped to New York City, many of these inspections being duplications of work already performed by the inspectors of this board. "WHEREAS, It has been found that the methods employed in the inspection of dairies in New Jersey, under the system adopted by the commissioner of health of New York City, is strongly at variance with that which is authorized by the laws of this State, and consequently there has arisen much dissatisfaction among dairymen because of arbitrary requirements from the New York agent, often in opposition to the suggestions which are sent out under the direction of this board. "WHEREAS, On two occasions a personal interview has been had by a representative of this board with the health commissioner of New York City, and he has been informed that if a list of the dairies in New Jersey from which milk is shipped to New York is provided reports of conditions on said dairy premises will be immediately and also periodically supplied for the information of the sanitary authorities of said city, and in a letter addressed to said authorities, dated February 5th, 1907, the following appears: If you will send to us a list of the dairies in New Jersey, concerning which your department desires information, we will be glad to cause inspections to be made in all cases where recent records are not now on file in this office and furnish the desired information. If at any time it is desired by your department that the information furnished by us shall be verified by an officer or agent from your city we shall be glad to cause one of our inspectors to meet your representative in order that they may go over the work together. Upon receipt of the list above referred to we will at once begin the collection of the information which you desire.' "Resolved, That this board hereby again states its intention to continue to cause inspections and reinspections to be made of all dairy premises in New Jersey from which milk is shipped to the city of New York, and to furnish upon request records of these inspections for the information of the health authorities of said city. "Resolved, That we hereby again request that hereafter all dairy inspections in New Jersey which are conducted by any agent of the health commissioner of the city of New York shall be performed only when accompanied by an officer or inspector of this board." Very respectfully, HENRY MITCHELL, Secretary. List of Sanitary Districts. With Names and Addresses of Officers and Members. CITIES. Asbury Park, Monmouth County; population, 4,526. Members and Officers-Theodore H. Beringer, President; David W. Sexton, George F. Wilbur, M.D., Asher S. Burton, Harry C. Millar, Joseph H. Bryan, M.D., William C. Weeden, Samuel A. Patterson. Attorney; B. H. Obert, Secretary, Registrar and Health Officer; Thomas J. Duffield, Inspector; Harry R. Ingalls, Inspector; Miss Sadie H. Layton, Clerk. *Atlantic City, Atlantic County; population, 37,593. Members and Officers-M. LeRoy Somer, M.D., Secretary. Bayonne, Hudson County; population, 42,262. Members and OfficersPierre P. Garven, President; Garret L. Post, Edward S. Benson, George T. Greenley, James Knight, J. H. Mahuken, John Gottko, James D. Boyd, Secretary; John T. Connolly, Health Inspector; H. S. Winterhalter, Sanitary Inspector; Frederick Wilson, Inspector. *Belvidere, Warren County; population, 1,869. Members and Officers -F. P. Lefferts, M.D., Secretary. Members and Officers Beverly, Burlington County; population, 2,258. -R. P. Haines, President; B. F. Soby, M.D., Berten Kiple, George Smith, Charles Parsons, Jr., W. S. Fenimore, Clerk and Registrar; George T. Tracy, M.D., Inspector. Bordentown, Burlington County; population. 4,073. Members and Officers--Samuel E. Burr, President; Samuel R. Magee, David R. Brown, Edwin L. Thompson, Wm. H. Shipps, M.D., Wm. M. Kester, Clerk: Harry W. Kunzi, Registrar; Amos P. Thorn, Inspector. *Bridgeton, Cumberland County; population, 13,624. Members and Officers-Jacob B. Jones, Secretary. Burlington, Burlington County; population, 8,038. Members and Officers-J. B. Cassady, M.D., President; Franklin S. Carter, Wm. C. Farner, Neal D. Keeler, Wm. R. Schuyler, Thomas S. Mooney, Clerk and Registrar; M. W. Newcomb, M.D., Inspector. Camden, Camden county; population, 82,912. Members and OfficersM. K. Mines, M.D., President; M. F. Middleton, M.D., E. W. Collins, H. H. Davis, M.D., R. H. Gaskill, Wm. I. Kelchmer, M.D., S. G. Bushey, M.D., Eugene B. Roberts, Clerk; I. V. Bradley, Registrar; John F. Leavitt, M.D., Inspector; Henry B. Francis, Inspector; Jos. A. Starr, Inspector; A. T. Sellers, Inspector; G. H. Robinson, Inspector. Cape May, Cape May County; population, 3,006. Members and Officers -A. L. Leach, M.D., President; George Lovett, Robert S. Hand, Samuel F. Eldredge, Wm. Porter, Clerk; V. M. D. Marcy, M.D., Inspector. Dover, Morris County; population, 6,353. Members and OfficersEustice F. Rudine, President; S. B. Johnson, M.D., Edward Jenkins, A. *No report received. W. Condict, M.D., J. H. C. Hunter, Clerk and Registrar; John G. Taylor, Inspector. East Orange, Essex County; population, 25,175. Members and Officers -Roger H. Butterworth, President; Frank B. Lane, M.D., Charles M. Matthews, H. L. De Nourie, Harvey Mott, F. W. Lockwood, M.D., Clerk; Lincoln E. Rowley, Registrar; Edward W. Lindsley, Inspector; Wm. T. Bowman, Health Officer. Egg Harbor, Atlantic County; population, 2,280. Members and Officers -August A. Breder, President; Henry G. Regensburg, Henry Otts, Valentine P. Hofmann, Clerk and Registrar; J. U. Elmer, M.D., Inspector. Elizabeth, Union County; population, 60,509. Members and OfficersJohn W. Whelan, President; L. R. Brown, M.D., J. L. Bauer, J. S. Green, M.D., H. R. Livengood, M.D., S. T. Quinn, M.D., A. Stern, M.D., John F. Kenah, Clerk and Registrar; L. J. Richards, Inspector; P. J. Connell, Inspector; Henry Toole, Inspector. Englewood, Bergen County; population, 7,922. Members and OfficersWilliam C. Tucker, President; Charles A. Bogert, F. C. Bradner, M.D., R. A. Sheppard, M.D., Gilliam D. Bogert, Clerk and Registrar; Irving Middleton, Inspector. Gloucester City, Gloucester County; population, 8,055. Members and Officers-George W. Turner, President; J. Alonzo Beek, M.D., John Kandle, Harlan S. Miner, Charles E. Rang, Harry Reeves, Carlos B. Allen, Clerk; George C. Wynkoop, Registrar; Duncan W. Blake, M.D., Inspector. Hackensack, Bergen County; population, 11,098. Members and Officers -Lemuel Lozier, President; Peter Xylander, E. B. Walden, F. W. Smith, Charles F. Stephens, John Klauer, J. G. Ackerson, Secretary; F. S. Hallett, M.D., Health Officer; Robert Ballagh, Inspector; A. C. Hart, Counsel. Hoboken, Hudson County; population, 65,468. Members and Officers— E. T. Steadman, President; D. Van Weak, Israel Weiman, D. B. Pindar, Joseph Tucker, Clerk and Registrar; Antonio Granelli, Health Inspector; John Marnell, Plumbing Inspector. Jersey City, Hudson County; population, 232,699. Members and Officers--F. E. Lambert, M.D., President; J. H. Finnerty, M.D., Norman L. Rowe, M.D., Wm. Delaney, Joseph A. Sprouls, Henry Hilton, Seth A. Chester, J. Morgan Jones, M.D., Henry Smellie, Clerk; Thomas H. Giblin, Registrar. Lambertville, Hunterdon County; population, 5,016. Members and Officers-George L. Romine, M.D., President; A. D. Anderson, William R. Bowne, Edward W. Closson, M.D., John Cooney, Harry K. Kramer, James H. Reynolds, Clerk and Registrar; John L. Coryell, Inspector. Long Branch, Monmouth County; population, 12,183. Members and Officers-John W. Bennett, M.D., President; L. Rothenberg, B. D. Woolley, John L. Price, Wm. T. Burke, Jos. T. Welch, M.D., Edward B. Blaisdell, Clerk and Registrar; James Milmore, Inspector; M. C. Burns, Plumbing Inspector. *Millville, Cumberland County; population, 11,884. Members and Officers-L. H. Hogate, Secretary. Montclair, Essex County; population, 16,370. Members and OfficersM. N. Baker, President; Richard P. Francis, M.D., Levi W. Halsey, M.D., Herbert M. Lloyd, J. N. Holton, Secretary; Chester H. Wells, Health *No report received. |