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DEATH RATE AMONG BABIES OF PORTLAND DECREASED ONE HAL F Pure Milk Campaign of Few Years Ago Bears Fruit in Lessened Infant Mortality, By MarehallN. Dan. Tooss who boasted PcwUn4'S pure ureter ana health-giving climate prU vtly wondered why so many babies died. The population was above the ev. raft In Intelligence i no cause In nature eoulq be held to blew. But over on larrebee atreet a little woman wept in a cottage home. A dtminutiv white hears had tlvat day taken her first born far from the reach of her straining arm. On the death reeorda at the etty hall the physiolaa wrote, "Cause of dearth .bad milk." mm Cornell road cam a dairyman blunderingly to ask the explanation of a thing hie putiled, slow-moving mind could not understand. A oew of hie was aeting atrangely and four eats that had drunk her milk becama very thin "like atlcka," he said then died. Aa be got up to go he remembered, too, that his little girl shared aome of the milk "with the oata and had sickened. This con waa one of twelve whose milk sold in the lty furnished a living to Ills house hold. He waa genuinely worried for fear that he waa about to lose the oows, the more eo because the state official, the dairy and food commis sioner, had said that perhaps the cow had tuberculosis the dairyman stum bled on the long, strange word but that'lO per cent of the cows in Oregon hgd the disease and the milk from thm didn't hurt children any. Advice like this hadn't cured the cow, K0 the dairyman had com to tell Tho Journal about it and ask what waa the reason the people elected an official, paid htm a large salary out of small Incomes, and then could get no help front him. Pure Milk Tight Xa Begun. This was In the fall of 1909. The Journal began trying to find an answer to the dairyman's question. It was the beginning of a fight (or pure milk and against vicious ignorance In public of fice and waged hotly a long time, and 1 not yet ended. The death records of that time had ettrtllng news for worried mothers. One of every three babies in Portland waa dying because of bad milk. The rate was higher than in Chicago, with its torrid summer, or New York, with its frightful congestion of human Ufa, But the dairy eemmlaaioner, J. W. Bailey, answered, aaylaft "Everybody tn Portland la drinking milk from tubercular cows. Look at the dirtiest and filthiest dairies you can find and you'll find that the children who drink that milk are the healthiest and strongest ever. The papers have no business talking about such things. They do a positive wrong when they stir people up about the milk supply." . From this same oracle there later came the assertion: "Take 10 gallons of milk from tubercular cews; feed five gallons to pigs and they'll die, feed the rett to babies and they'll grow fat." It la of great Interest to run over tho record of the pur milk cam paign which The Journal carried on. From the beginning It could not be MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE IN CHARGE OF PORTLAND MILK SHOW . .... ' rv ,.ysa iA II . wsih & x i fey a a m m I t tr I M Ik I I l nP LAL3 V f II J. iiiiltr';;i Ji par j -asassaBWaassBaWssssaMssssssssssB A;..y!;fe':-;:i';ir: t 1 ' Seated, left to rlht Mra. R. H. Tate. Mrs. F. 8. Myers, Mrs. C. F. Nichols, Mrs. H. M. Bransford, Dr. M. V. Madlgan and Miss Emma E Grlttlnger. 8Undluf, left to right R. C. Hall, A. S. Wells, E. C. Calloway, Marshall N. Dana, O. M. Plummer, George Shepherd, Professor E. G. Pernot. Dr. Sommer, Julius Meier, Dr. M. B. Marcellus. HEALTH OF PUBLIC IS DEPENDENT UPON THE INSPECTION OF DAIRIES doubted but that this campaign was for the protection of that tnomg of helpless ones who deserved a Chance to live. "Otle organisation after another swung into the campaign. One startling revtl atlon succeeded another. The Journal's automobile spent half days on country roads and with test and pictures made all who would read familiar with thu facts. Tlie city health department reorgan ised to aid the fight. New ordinance were passed to bar from the city the horrof of diseased milk. The stt board of health held a special eight hour session In Pendleton, came to Port land, investigated. Joined the fiaht. The secretary, Dr. Robert C. Yenney. big brained, bigger hearted, aat In consul tation with othera in the campaign hour after hour while the elty slept, etrenth enlng armament to overcome diseaae and dirt and ignorance and to save little Uvea. The Conauiuera' league committee was headed byvaa Indefatigable worker afid commander. Mrs. A. B. Rockey, whose devotion and bravery supplied inspiration and courage to many who would otherwise have faltered and given up. The Chamber of Commerce, through Its president, William McMaster, Joined the crusade, as did many other organ izations and individuals, and in this Hat the physicians' societies must not be forgotten. All of this seems a good while ago. A dispatch from Washington had said that Oregon waa ranked a year behind her sister state, Washington, tn the matter of dairy development and milk supply. The intelligent dairymen had already realized this and they welcomed regulation. Dirt and disease, they found, walked hand in hand, slaughter ing cows as well as babies, reduolng the value of Investment as well as making the patropage of an enlightened public harder to get. The law forbidding the sale of milk from cows not found by test to be free trt tuberculosis, at first opposed, la now supported by the very dairymen who opposed It, aa they see a disease that had ruined ten per cent of the cows rapidly being eradi cated. From the health office of the city there come proud charts showing how the milk supply has Improved, how the death rata among babies less than two years of age has been cut kS per cent, how Portland ranks excellently with other cities. And now there Is to be a city milk show to record ac complishments. A competent dairy commissioner who was a practical dairyman, who hates and abhors the expensive, unclean methods, who isn't afraid to voice his dlsgUHt of the unseemly, and who studies dally to make his work more ef ficient, Is carrying on the work of that office. He is J. D. Mlckle. But the campaign lan-t over. The educational campaign among dairymea must be oontinuoua, but not less so than among distributors of milk. Eternal vigilance Is the price of pure milk. KNOWLEDGE OF FOOD VALUES IS ESSENTIAL Instruction In Public Schools Includes Training in What to Eat, By L. R. Alderman. Superintendent of Public Schools. In training children, one of the most difficult things to determine is what will prove to be most useful to them. Many things taught In the public aohoola are of doubtful value, but of th worth of knowledge concerning the proper care of food there can be no question, for as long as we live we must consume food, and a largo ma jority ot people have something to do with the preparation or care of food. Believing that the natural life of a girl is that of the home, we have in mind a course for the high schools that will give our girla apeolal instruction In the science and art of home making. General ignorance In thia matter is not complimentary to our publle instruc tlon, and prospective plana for the Portland public schools Include the teaching, in a practical way, the proper care of food as well as the manner of Its preparation, which Is now taught in our domestio science classes. Captain January said. "The two things necesHary to bring up a baby are common sense apd a eow." But common sense Is frequently lacking when applied to the products of the cow, and aa the bringing up of babies is a very vital factor in the making of a home, instruction as to the proper manner of caring for milk should re ceive Kpecial attention, since probably there Is no one article of food which deteriorates more rapidly and Is pro. ductlve of mora disease when not prop erly cared for than is milk. Milk, produced under hygienic condl. tlons, is often rendered very unwhole some by improper treatment after it reaohes tho home. I am quite sure that we shall soon realise, better than ever before the great deterioration which takes place In milk even under the best conditions. Milk la Intended to be consumed Immediately after its production, and the- care which renders it fit for future use ia a very delicate matter. -I feel certain that the neces sity for this care and the best manner of exercising It will be deeply im pressed upon the minds, not only of a great many of our school children who attend the milk show, but of the gen eral public. Pure Milk From Clean Cows Essential; Cooperation of Producer Is Sought. By 9. D. Mlckle, Dairy and Food Commissioner. Heallatng the responsibility placed In out hands in relation to public health we have eome te the oonolusion that the guarding of Oregon's milk aupply from the eow to the consumer la our highest and greatest task. Milk contain all the easentlala of a perfeot ration, protelda, carbohydrates, fata, lnorganta aalta and water. It la easily digested and constitutes an im portant food for the sick and convales cent, of even greater importance la its use aa a substitute for mother's milk in infant feeding. It oan be aeen there fore that the weak and sick, the ones who most depend upon It, are the ones lets able te wlthatand the effecta of lm purltlea. Time and again It haa been brought to our attention, even In our own healthy state, that epidemics have come through thla source, causing sickness and death. These facta are ao pertinent to our pub lic health that It challenges our best endeavors to atama out the eauae. It ia a fast that aood healthy cows give healthy milk; It la therefore our first concern In thla work for Inspectors to positively see that all animals are healthy, free from all disease, and that they have been subjected to the tubercu lin test. After having established pri marily that a pure article comes from the cow there are three cardinal points which have to be met. cleanliness, oold and speedy transportation from the cow to the consumer. For carrying out these conditions it ia necessary on the part of the dairyman and milk dealer ta exercise Intelligence and care. Cooperation Za Bought. Oregon being a sparsely settled state, the legislature has not seen Ita way te allow the proper number of inspectors to cover the territory aa often as is de sired; however by a policy of cooperation with city and town officials throughout the utate we have beeji able to extend the scope of our work ao that each sec tion of the state has Us milk supply In spected and tested. The city of Protland now baa an efficient health board, and we think better milk ia now being used in Portland than any other etty of the, , also In the eauntry.-i.-A-c'W. .KVl;. It la our policy to demand that all milk, uaed in Oregon coma from titan eow, whioh ara houaea tn anitery ta bles, handled py. clean healthy people, nd the milk kept in clean utensils, eoolad to aa low temperature gg the water n the farm will Uew. Laatly. we urge the oulokest trans portation front eow ot coneumer. ; Our .efforts to carry out these Plana have met with hearty cooperation from tho farmer and milk producer In most . cases. By a system af scoring, the far- , rner is ahowg the weak points la the op eration of hi farm and Inatrueted In the beat possible methods t make Ma dairy sanitary. We aim to bring oioaer relationship between producer and con sumer so that each will understand the difficulties to be overcome In producing' pur milk and will therefor cooperate. ' By means of oow testing associations which we eneourege whenever possible' we instruct the farmer in the matter f ' a business management of hi farm. By keeping a record of each cow, the ani mals making a profit are separated frm tho which are milked at a loss, and th poor one can therefore b disposed ' of. '- - - Thlrty-fW carloads of butter and if carloads of cheese wer shipped into Oregon from east of th Rocky Mua tains during 1)12, WE ARE NOT IN THE HABIT OF AD VERTISING BUT W r proud of our "tcom Siven by the atit and city airy inspectors, and want th public to know it. UNDER THE MOST RIGID INSPECTION Our herd of cows score perfect. And we score perfect for cleaa food. This means pure, whole some mill;, rich and fresh, from our dairy to you every day. DO IT NOW! Telephone Main 9509 Daily Delivery CITY VIEW DAIRY 3 The Oregon Independent Testing Laboratory of Portland, Oregon Phone Main 9405 Third at Yamhill St. A Commercial Laboratory Operating Our Exclusive MILK-TESTING SECTION Ysear Milkman Knows Us. Arthur L. Tribe, Mgr. Consign Your Stock TO F. C. SHAMEY. LIVE STOCK AND pOMMISSION CO&' The Pioneer Commission Finn of the Portland Union Stockyards AND BE ASSURED OF GOOD SERVICE T. C. Benson, cattle salesman. W, T. Mgtlock, sheep salesman A. R. Benson, hog; salesman. J. W. Creath, office. EEMSO-M Commission Company The Largest Live Stock Commission House at North Portland Pleasrbcar in mind that each department of our firm is handled by an Individual member and his entire time is devoted to " that department. That Is tfw REASON why YOU GET RESULTS When You Ship to Us rri ro HONE WOODLAWN 2400 CLOVER HILL FARM E. L. THOMPSON, Owner r?. 3k. - . . i s Model Stalls, Clover Hill Farms it k . f i 1 1 ! 1 7 UmZ?--:K77-::immwm wwxx. -W- I " 'Vi v Pi! t V A . 'J rp :. i1' . J, ..H M. n t M Cleansing Bottles with Live, Hot Steam it CLEAN MILK IS A HIGHLY VALUABLE FOOD DIRTY MILK IS DEADLY GET THE CLEAN KIND, KEEP IT COOL AND KEEP IT CLEAN" The above is the opening paragraph of the report of Oregon Dairy .and Food Com missioner J. D. Mickle, for June,- 1913. In the next paragraph he says: "First of all let us urge that you exercise extreme care in the selection of a milkman. Get the be$t you can. The best is 'none too good. Look particularly to your milkman's per sonal appearance. Is he clean? Inspect his wagon, his milk bottler and the utensils he carries. Are they clean ? If dirty, don't patronize him. Never buy milk served from a can. Buy only bottled milk." If the Oregon Dairy and Food Commis sioner, had been attempting to describe the Clover Hill Farms he could not have more i nearly described their ideals and their meth ods. "Get the best you can, the best is none ioo'good," he says. During the re cent inspection of dairies along the lines adopted by the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, the milk used in Portland , was scored on the basis of purity and clean liness of the milk. The CloverHill Farms of Columbia county scored highest of all, having a score of 95.3. This is not to be wondered at, as the Clover Hill Farm is recognized as the model dairy of the West. The milk comes from high grade cows, which are kept under ideal con ditions. The. stable where they are milked has no odor whatever. It is sprayed daily, the cows themselves are sprayed and their flanks and udders washed before they are milked, and the same care is given to the cows as would be given to a string of blue ribbon race horses. The milkers milk by the dry-hand, process. They are uniformed. The milk is milked through sterilized cotton cloth. It is forced by gravity through a sterilized cotton filter, cooled and the milk bo 1 1 1 e s automatically filled, capped and sealed, then packed in ice and shipped. From, the time the milk leaves the cow until it comes to the consumer, it is han dled by absolutely clean, sanitary methods. The bottles are cleaned by steam and boil ing water and ajl utensils are subjected to the steam bath and dried. Clover Hill Farms is more than an ordi nary dairy. It is the practical application of scientific methods, producing the highest class of milk under ideal conditions. The cows are pastured where there are no obnoxious weeds or polluted water. They are thoroughly in spected by competent state and government officials. The cows are kept so clean that there is no chance for contamination of the milk. The barns are thoroughly ventilated and cleaned and the attendants use every precaution to keep the product at its highest standard. These safeguards mean additional cost for production. The public, who know the danger of im pure milk, are Klad to pa vl a slif htly in creased cost to secure certified milk milk that is guaranteed to be thoroughly pure and produced under sanitary conditions. Phone -your orders to the delivery com pany, Third and Hoyt Streets. Main 3182, A-1462.
