Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — MILK INSPECTION IS NO FUN [ARTICLE]

MILK INSPECTION IS NO FUN

Incident BhoWing How Hard It la to Sanitary Rules on Dirty People., The trials and tribulations of a milk inspector trying to force insanitary people' to live according to sanitary rules are shown in the issue of the Healthologlst. the official organ of the (Milwaukee health department The story follows: A Milwaukee milk Inspector during a farm inspection, came upon a place hopelessly filthy, disorderly and run down. A motherly person with a big heart, but firm and weird convictions, listened to the young man’s suggestions. Then looking over her spectacles pityingly, she said: “Boy, my was ninety-seven years old when she died. ’ She was dirtier than I am, and lived in a dirtier house and drank dirtier milk. If she could stand It I guess there ain’t no reason why I and the city folks that get milk from this farm can’t Btand 4t too.” And not being able to answer that argument, the milk inspector left her —kindly withal, but yet voicing her indignation over “them there new fangled idees of cleanliness.”