Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-17 | Page 8 | Dairy Plants Register Market Sanitary Gains

Dairy Plants Regist Register i Marked Sanitary Gains Sur Survey ey y Sh ow Nearly Per Cent Improvement Improvement Improvement Improve Improve- ment This Year Year- I Sanitary conditions condition at dairy ry farms and plants supplying ing milk to Salt Lake have improved nearly IOU per cent Inthe in inthe inthe the present year ear Dr L L. E. E Viko city wealth health commissioner announced Tu Tuesday at the close of a comprehensive sive survey Salt Lakers in return are drinking more milk Health officials cre credit the increased consumption to growing public confidence in the f the milk supply A year car ago before enforcement of the city milk ordinance began W W. H. H specialist for lor the federal health service surveyed conditions and reported and reported that pasteurizing plants rated raud only per pcr cent in sanitary compliance and the raw milk plants only per cent RIGID INSPECTION Then the cit city was consuming 63 pint of ot milk per capita daily dally Months of rigid inspection and enforcement en en- of of- the milk ordinance fol- fol lowed Now the daily consumption Is 85 pint per capita an increase of ot more than han 1000 gallons daily in the city according to Dr L. L A. A Browne chief of the dairy meat and foods division of the health department When lack of funds prevented federal federal federal fed fed- eral men from making a resurvey this fall all laU local health officers did the work Pasteurizing plants have increased their rating to percent r cent compliance compU- compU ance with wilh sanitary requirements and andraw andraw andraw raw milk plants rate per cent Dr Viko reported The pasteurizing plants have bettered their standing 85 per cent in a year while the raw milk plants rate 43 per cent above last ast year In the survey distributors and producers pro pro- were graded on 24 items of cle cleanliness health of and cows milk handling methods equipment equip equip- ment and bacteria count GREAT IMPROVEMENT This improvement in fri sanitation Is 3 very cry Important Dr Browne said because clean milk cannot be produced produced pro pro- Jn unclean surroundings this he pointed out outs Is s the rule role against washing and handling handling han han- cUing milk in the family kitchen Before this took effect inspectors found three separate Instances instances in- in stances in which mothers wh who were caring for children with typhoid fever scarlet fever and measles were also handling milk buckets In in- their kitchens With improved sanitation the b bacteria bac- bac c- c teria eria content o of milk has dropped markedly The 1932 monthly average average aver aver- age for pasteurized milk was wu bacteria per cubic centimeter This has las dropped to thus far in 1933 Similarly bacteria counts in raw milk have lowered from a monthly month month- ly y average of in 1932 to inthe n the nine months months- of ot 1933 4 I