Jan, 51.
Iris to be hoped that all ratepayers will study: the report the Pure Milk Conunission, issued _as a supplement to the Municipal Gazette last Tuesday. It is interesting, it con-cams us all and it proposes certain definite measures the! bearing of which everybody! should understaind. he object which. the Commission kept! continually in view wis to combine purity of the milk supply, sufficiency and price. For example, it would have _been absurd to recommend such requirements in a dairy as ithe Chinese cow-keeper could only fulfil at a cost that would raise the price of his milk beyond customers' ability to pay. Accordingly two grades of licence have been suggested, A and B. With the conditions contained there are already dairies which comply or very neatly! so: with those of B' no wnndeessary difficulty or expense should be involved pliance. The Comission did not attempt to force all dairies up to the standard of the best foreign dairies; the vast majority dF consumers could not pay the price entailed. The wisdom of the ease was to endeavour to secure milk of] reasonably good quality fit at! Toast when boiled for human consumption. This Grade B appears to do.
Tt is interesting to note that the Commis. sion heard the legal representative of a certain dairy,—who] "urged that when a sample of milk is taken for analysis, half the same should be returned to for the purpose, if desired, of an independent analysis." Tt is hardly surprising to read that "the Commission see great danger in this of the dairy owner substituting another sample. The sane witness also urged that public notification in the Gazette, of adulterated milk having been found in any dairy. before ecmviction in the Mixed Court, did much more range to the dairyman than even the conviction. The public. reply! to this will be immediately. "Then et us have more and wider publicity The Commission didn't reach its conclusions—without personally inspecting a number of davies of which the follow ing is certainly no exaggerated! ly. he vern without undue hardship to the dairy] Areopor. Th many casey the cow stables were ilitit, filated, lacking' here the boiler from which hot} water should hav obtained had Uncovered Konas were clone proximity to cow milk rooms. Gener The conclusion is the need for stringent enforcement of regulations and condition the useful. reco that the licence be due warn-whi withdraw or Suspend the Ficoner..
This would stop the common practice of a delinquent -carrying on by @ proxy.
But when all other conditions are fulfilled, there is still at! times a shortage in the requisite quantity of milk, which undoubtedly is made up by milk from unlicensed dairies! outside the Settlement. The enormous difficulty of checking this infnx is obvious and the Commission therefore lays stress on the fullest control being given to those who have to sce that the new licence contions are observed. But attacking the problem from the other end, the Commission finds that the dearness and oceasional shortage of milk are! due to the frequency of disease amongst cattle, and this leads up to its most' important commendation of all, namely the appointment of a Municipal Veterinary Surgeon. Here 's its reasoning in a nutshell The question of the plentiful supply of pure milk: atm reasonable cost is dependent non the prevention and the spread of eat 2. Health Inspectors are not qualified to dingnoso diseases of cattle, "Hence they cannot. of-ly prevent the spread of fication every three! months by. approved local practis: Inve Veterinary. Surgeons" wont
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"4" Other matters which galy an tates independent and fil Awaited: Veterinary Surge rol, nnd which are of the ortanen are (a) poral of earensey of anfiale, den rom disease and (8) The wows: ment of animale fering "from incaser over: Municipal roads Space docs, not permit of going at length into all the reasons why the Commission presses for a new official and cannot accept the three monthly eertification urged by the Commissioner of Public Health and mentioned in' claure No. 3 abore. They are. given fully in the report and, although the! appointment of "a municipal vet," will cost money and undoubtedly occasion the great est controversy who the report is considered by the Council, We believe that the Commission will be held at least to have nade out a along case.
No summary cin do justice to all the points in the report and it is certainly to be hoped that ratepayers will take trouble to study for themselves document which—ssnredl endeavours to make a teal eon-t nto public health. But one more quotation may be! underlined min. the Commission' wontd Tike to fin press publi that, while the Partnent may do everything pos-lo ter protect thai mute be for the publ their own personal dnivien, they: would towards Pare Milk Supply to a greater extent than can be accomplished ie any "Re: lations which the Council may fee Rt to import.
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.