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NEW YORK SCANDAL WATERED WITH STABLE HOSES WHOLESALE CORRUPTION DISCOVERED (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) New York, April 30. The New York milk scandal is growing in scope. The Commissioner of Health, Mr. Harris, has announced that milk watered with a stable hose is responsible for a large proportion of the annual typhoid cases in New York which terminate fatally. The various city institutions 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 Commission wasrindicted by the Grand Jury on charges of bribery and has been released on 95,000 dollar bail. The leader of the gang who practised extortion among dishonest dealers pleaded guilty and awaits sentence. The present New York State law requires three per cent, of butter-fat content in milk, and dishonest wholesalers formed a ring declining to purchase mjlk from any dairyman of higher butter-fat content, preferring the cheaper product and thus forcing many unwilling dairymen to adulterate milk. Hundreds of indictments are expected and special panels of Grand Juries in the cities and boroughs are being sworn in. The office of the prosecuting attorney is devoting its entire staff to the purposes of investigation. —A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 19859, 3 May 1926, Page 7
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211IMPURE MILK Southland Times, Issue 19859, 3 May 1926, Page 7
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