162 MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 



In Table No. 86 the 'statement is made that in the year 1917 the 

 Department was equipped with seven milk inspectors. In the personnel 

 of the Health Bureau in the report for 1917 are given the names of the 

 chief milk inspectors, one meat and assistant milk inspector, and five 

 assistant sanitary milk inspectors. These are in addition to the names 

 of the biologist and chemist. Whether this means all (^ccupied the same 

 positions at the same time or replaced each other doeS: ! not appear in the 

 report. 



Dr. George W. Goler, Health Officer, in his testimony at a public 

 hearing held in the City Hall, on July 16th, made the following statement 

 regarding the control of the milk supply by the Rochester Health De- 

 partment : 



"In the early days, in the shipped milk as well as in the made milk, 

 we were, of coiurse, drinking vast quantities of manure in our milk. 



"As far as we could, we inspected the dairies of the men who were 

 making the milk. We went into the country and inspected their dairies. 

 We could not do very much because we never had more than two and a 

 half men to protect our milk supply. 



"A few years later we had difficulty because, very unfortunately, a 

 man was called to the police court bench, who was a law unto himself, 

 who dismissed :milk cases just as rapidly as we brought them before him, 

 and who seemed to think he was the defender of all the bad milk men in 

 town. He was re-elected for eight years and we were practically unable 

 to get a conviction, no matter what the man's offense might be against 

 the milk ordinances of the City of Rochester. 



"There was a notorious individual who was a typhoid carrier and 

 who had it in hjis family, who was responsible for twelve cases of typhoid, 

 three or four of which died. We were unable, through the police at that 

 time, to either keep that man from peddling milk in Rochester or to get 

 him arrested for selling milk in Rochester, and as the result of that we 

 had thirteen cases and three or four deaths. 



"We had still another example of just that sort of thing. A woman 

 who had typhoid was selling milk in an establishment where she had 

 someone sick with typhoid and we could not prevent at that time that 

 person from coming into Rochester with milk. That would not be so now 

 or that would not have been so a few years past. It was so then. 



"Then there was a period along about 1905 when we attempted to 

 show that there was a very considerable number of cattle furnishing milk 

 to Rochester which were infected by tuberculosis. That is, I do not mean 

 by that that we were interested in the cattle infected by tuberculosis in a 

 mild degree. That was not our interest. We were interested in some 

 of the cattle that were infected with tuberculosis which we know as open 



