IMPURE MILK.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18681, 3 May 1926, Page 7

IMPURE MILK.

NEW TOSS SCMDtt. HSNWHBDS OF DtDfCClflKn EXPECTED. («ir rtfii tMocrwiai. (WRBAUui in n. «uu ■»—'"iwH CBeceived Mar Sad, 5.5 . ! NEW TOSS, April SSL The New York mi& teaadal is givw | ing 1b scope. The Commissioner ot Bettt. Mr Bn» ris, announced that milk watted witfi ai stable hose is responsible Av a larpe proportion of the annual typhoid mm in New York which terminate fataQyw Various City institution* have discovered so much bad milk: and una being supplied to then tba,t they were compelled to institute their ova inspection system. The secretary of the prenoos HtaJCk Commissioner, who w*« indicted W the Gr;iud Jury on chargen of krilwrr, has boeu released on 95,000 dollars* batL The leader of a gang who poetised extortion among dishonest dealers pleaded guilty and awaits sonteac*. The present New York State law requires throe per cent of tatter-fat content in milk, and dishooMi whalesalers formed a ring declining to parchase milk from any dairyman ot highor butter-fat content, pnf«nii| t» cheapen the product, thus forcing magr unwilling dairymen to adoltavte their milk. Hundreds of indiefeomte an expected, and special panel* of garni juries in the cities and borovghs so» being sworn in. The office of the prosecuting attorney is devoting its entire staff for the purpose of investigation. [A recent message stated that o*e of the worst scandals in the history of the Pure Food Laws, of New York, had been disclosed by the Hoattlt Department which revealed that 300,000 gallons of adulterated milk Itad been sold daily for years. Nearby municipalities wore also affected, Jersey City's sapply being 21 per cent, adulterated, is. many eases to such an orient as to V practically water.]