Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — Milk at Coat to the Poor. [ARTICLE]

Milk at Coat to the Poor.

A dairy among coal-shoots and lum-ber-yards would do supposably a dairy out of place, but these are the surroundings of a particular milk depot in New York city, bocause it is in close proximity to a poor quarter. A stream of little girls and boys, young mothers and old women, carrying pitchers, mugs, tin pails, demijohns, and nondescript vessels, has for objeotive point a straggling wooden structure built on a pier which juts into the East River at the foot of Third Street. All are bent on buying milk, for et this dairy the price of milk by tho quart is four cents. It is the very best milk which can be had, and of the precise quality ueed at the Waldorf. The herd of Jerseys furnishing this milk was inspected by the leading veterinary authority, and every day’s supply is tested. It seems hard to believe that people in New York pay every year a million of dollars for the water used in adulterating milk. This dilution would be a matter of no great difference to adults, but when it is given to children, there being so small a percentage of nutrients in it, the little ones starve. It is good to tee the extent of the penny-a-glasa business, the glass being a big tumbler holding over a pint, and It is a fluid much absorbed in this way by the coal-hoavers. But the dairy does not do an exclusive crude milk business. The main object in establishing this dairy is to supply infants with sterilized milk. When milk is brought up to a temperature of 70 ° C. which is 158 0 F., the milk is not perceptibly changed, but the germs of disoase, which give children cholera infantum or other serious complaints, are destroyed. This process of heating milk is knowuas pasteurizing. In this dairy there is a sterilizing iplant, and all day long milk is being pasteurized. The cost of it is six oents a quart. The method of work, though simple enough, requires some skill and absolute cleanliness. Innumerable precautions are taken with the milk Itself and with the foedlng-botlles. For vory young ohildren the milk has to be used diluted according to the physician’s formula. Dr. R. G Freeman, of the Roosevelt Hospital, who has thoroughly studied the subject of the sterilizatiou of milk at low temperatures, has given this milk depot much of his attention.