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Show VERBAL CLASH "FEATURES CITY MILK HEARING Medical Men Line Up, With Pasteurizing Proponents Protection of public health requires pasteurization of all milk distributed in Salt Lake City, supporters of a city ordinance ordi-nance to accomplish that end advocated at a stormy public hearing in the City and County building Wednesday. Raw milk distributors and their friends were massed In the city eommlaalon ehamhere and greeted each aally af their rep-reeentativee rep-reeentativee with a burst of applause. ap-plause. Proponents of the meeaure "caught on," and toward the close it was almost Impassible for anyone any-one to say anything without being rewarded with applause from one side or the other. Medical Mea Heard Comments of medical man almost al-most unanimously favored parte ur-iaatiea ur-iaatiea af all milk. ... Case for the proposed ordinance, outgrowth of a controversy which began several weeks ago when all raw milk permits were banned overnight, was outlined by A, C. Merrill, chief sanitarian for the city health department. He pointed out that In the pest veer only e per cent of the milk distributed in the city was In the raw state, but that 6 per cent of the sanitary violations discovered by .hearth department inspectors were charged to raw milk distributors. distribu-tors. "No ordinance can guarantee a safe raw milk supply," be contended. con-tended. Germ Killed Mr. Merrill explained now the pasteurisation pas-teurisation process kills disesse germs by heat without, he maintained. main-tained. Injuring the food value of the milk. He quoted figures showing that 137 American cities, seven of them with populations of more than 100,-000, 100,-000, already require pasteurisation of all milk as a health protection. "This great health benefit can come without serious injury to sny-one, sny-one, so for the health, safety and protection of the city, trie ordinance should be adopted." Mr. Merrill said, "providing that a reasonable time is given owners of grede A herds supplying raw milk to make the transition." Flgurea Cited Mr. Merrill pointed out that 24 of the city's S3 dairies distribute rsw milk, which represents only 4 per cent of the total milk consumed. F. Henri Henriod, attorney for the rsw milk distributors, presented their case. Pasteurisation Is necessary as a protection for milk brought in from Cache valley and southern Idaho, he admitted, "but the fact remains no local emergency exists to justify destruction of the tSOO.000 raw milk industry." "An ordinsnce prohibiting distri- (Cootlniien An Part MM) (Column Fit el CLASH DEVELOPS IN MILKHEARING, (CoaUntMS from Pnt One) button of raw milk will result in ths same bootlegging evils that accompanied accom-panied liquor prohibition," Mr. Hen-riod Hen-riod charged. Vie we Expressed Mayor E. B. Erwin called upon several medical men to state their views, following Mr. Henriod's remarks, re-marks, and mors than a half dosen responded, in-between Impromptu comments from laymen, several of them women, who related their personal experiences with raw and pasteurised milk. Dr. L. L. Dainre, deem at the University ef I'UK school ef medicine; Dr. F. M. MeHugh at the board ef health. Dr. Barnet E. Bonar and Dr. O. A. Ostlvte were among thee emphasising the Importance ef pasteurising aU milk. Dr. W. H. Pyott, head ef the Utah Association of Naturopathic Naturo-pathic Physicians, Seek she ep-peaita ep-peaita view. The hearing lasted more than three hours, and when M broke up ths city commissioners voted to refer re-fer the matter to the committee as a whole. In their hands was a rough draft would ban distribution of raw milk snd tske effect tt days after it wss psssed by the commission. History Recalled Before the hearing had adjourned, however, Dr. MeHugh, who was a member of the health board which adopted the present city milk Inspection In-spection ordinance, explained that when this measurs wss proposed six years ago dairymen complained "louder than they, are now" that H would ruin them. "Instead of that happening," Dr. MeHugh continued, "the dairies ars enjoying better business and Salt Lakers ars receiving a higher quality qual-ity of milk." It was originally planned six years sgo to require pasteurisation of all milk, he explained, but this feature of the ordinance was changed because It was feared opponents op-ponents of this action might defeat the entire milk ordinance. 100 Per Cent Favored "In every city where the board of health feels it can overcome the opposition of thoss interested in money matters more than health 100 per cent pasteurisation of milk is favored." Dr. MeHugh asserted. Dr. Dslnes emphasised that there is no simple method of testing milk to determine whether it contains diphtheria, typhoid fever or other germs. "Why not then, take advantage of the pasteurisation method, which hss proved It can kill such germs?" the doctor queried. Dr. Ogilvie and Dr. Bonar advised ths city commission that pasteurisation pasteurisa-tion does not injurs the nutritive vslue of the milk other than to reduce re-duce its vitamin C content, an element ele-ment easily obtainable from other foods. Digestion Is Factor Pasteurisation, they contended, makes the milk mors sasily digested. di-gested. Dr. Pyott charged, however, the proposed ordinsncs wss sn encroachment en-croachment on personal liberty and that pasteurized milk speeds tooth decay. Only formal paper presented at the hearing wss that of Mrs. R. B. Peck, chairmen of the social welfare wel-fare committee of the Women's Leg-illative Leg-illative council, who attacked the political aspect of ths city health department and urged greater attention at-tention to more rigid inspection stsndards rather than a ban on distribution dis-tribution of rsw milk to that portion por-tion of ths citisenry that preferred such milk to the pasteurized kind. Many of the speakers offered arguments ar-guments as specific rebuttal to remarks re-marks msde by speakers before them. |