IMPURE MILK SCANDAL GROWING IN SCOPE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3336, 3 May 1926, Page 7

IMPURE MILK SCANDAL GROWING IN SCOPE

New York Dealers Force Down Quality

PREMIUM PLACED ON DISHONESTY

[By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 30.

The milk scandal is growing IB scope. The Commissioner of Health, Mr. Harris, has announced that milk watered with stable hose is responsible for a large' proportion of the annual typhoid cases in New York which terminate fatally. Various city institutions have discovered that so much bad milk and cream was being supplied to them that they were compelled to institute their own inspection system. The secretary .of the previous Health Commissioner, indicted by the Grand Jury on charges of bribery, has been released on 95,000 dollar bail.

The leader of uiu gang which practiced extortion among dishonest dealers has pleaded guilty and awaits sentence. The present New York State law requires three per cent, of butterfat content in milk and dishonest wholesalers formed a ring, declining to purchase miik from any dairyman of higher butter-fat content, preferring the cheaper product and thus forcing many unwilling dairyman to adulterate their milk. Hundreds of indictments are expected and special panels of Grand Juries in the cities and boroughs are being sworn in. The oflicc of the prosecuting attorney 1« devoting its entire staff to. the purposes of investigation.