NEW YORK MILK SCANDALS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 3 May 1926, Page 9

NEW YORK MILK SCANDALS.

Watered With Stable Hose. many PROSECUTIONS PENDING. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Australian and H.Z. (.'able Association. (Received May 2, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 30. The New York milk scandal is growing in scope. The Commissioner of Health (Mr Harris), announces that milk watered with stable hose, is responsible for a large proportion of the annual typhoid cases in New Y'ork, which terminate fatally. .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. Tiie secretary of tlie previous Health Commissioner, who has been indicted by the Grand Jury on charges of bribery, has been released on a 1)5,000 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 3 per cent., butter fat content in milk, and dishonest wholesalers have formed a ring declining to purchase milk from any dairyman of higher butter fat content, preferring the cheaper product, thus forcing many unwilling dairymen to adulterate the milk. Hundreds of indictments are expected, and special panels of Grand Juries in (lie cities and boroughs are being sworn in. The office of the prosecuting attorney is devoting its entire staff to the purposes of investigation.