THE COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 909, 31 August 1910, Page 9

THE COUNCIL.

IMPREST SUPPLY BILL. ctlie tLegislative'. Council : jaet at 1.30.-;; yesterdayafternoon, the/.-Jniprest 3, which' was dealt' with, by, the- House- on /Friday ;.put. '."-'UifoqgiLvaiJcvits "staged. * \h-: •>- ••• • A v HAWKE'S BAY RIVER BILL. - Kepoi-ting. on the -Hawke's. Bay Rivers • Bill,r'the ..Chairman" .of. the Local ..Bills 'Comihitte'e' stated that the Standing Orders .had - not been '■ with, in so' ' far 'i as "two of,-. t ho. ;necessary. nmvspaper notices had ' hot .been inserted, within. the . time, stipulated,' and .iurther, the plan . ■ attached to , the" l>ill. was, smaller . than, the, scale','.prescribed., . >. ~ I'liaStantling,.Orders were .suspended so. to 'allow. tho' Bill to procceu., . HAWKE'S BAY.RIVERS BILL. ' . : TUe: Statutes' Revision ' reported considered ":'- the ■Crimes*! Amehdmcut'- Hill; ,'iihd'4»<ipinii)CJidod ; that the i 'oiill'- with : \ameudments. .be 1 allowed ! to •'rirdcectl?':.-' ■.V.?' 1 -'-"--'v,. 'Ihe A'iIOIUNEYGEMMiAL (Dr I ma"latfj" -said:he, was' aiixioiis, to- gdt tho-Bill '■< into-rtho" Hoaso ,of.-Representatives, "anil itV to take ""'th^-Committee stage- to-day.. ' *-■. ; -- si * ■' i-|-r.::r:..'r. COMPANIES .AMENDMENT. BILL. •' Bill was . agreed'to:' • •• . h / 'ihe..r','ATTOUNEY-GIiNEBAIi stated tha'Hhe purposo of the'Bill'was-to briny che'Vla\v' l of .-New. Zealand .into/ harmony with this law of ..Great- Britain, and. to . bby,late'defects in our. Act._ V '• v' • '■ ; _ 'PHOSPHORUS' MATCHES BILL. •i .TiioiI*ATTOEKEY-GENBBAL- mowd tha ■seioud.'-i'eading • •;ot'fv the; I-hosphoriw ;•;Jlatchesi. Bill, .which has already! .passed - llie -iiower House. f.vAiter.; hearing:--8r... .Fihdlay's explanation'.:, of; the Bill; the debute .was: udjounied- on the motion"", of-the.-'Hon'.,-J.- 'I'. Paul. PURE MILK FOR THE CITItS HON DI COLLINS S SCHFJIh '. Thef-Hon.l)r.V COLI/ESfS' (.Wellington)' noved;'in accordance with, notice'of mo- - 'tion: "That iri : 'the';opinibn of this Council ■V further ■ legislative;;-'. ; .. measures .. are neces- . sary. .to .insure a. purer';, milk supply t'o . the 'inhabitants ot the' chief cities . of. ' the Dominion."—Speaking to the motion; ■ the .'mover stated, tttat milk was used in almost "everyVhoino'in'the" Dominion, and . if .this milk was not absolutely pure thosp 'using .'lit, ..principally.infaiits, suiferedi.lt'. was"-.essential IthatY the:' public" should ' knoV.-that; the : Ailk''used, in 'the -cities- . • was. ab'soiiite.ly.LpureV ; .Be' quoted from the reports.-iof .tne 'Society:: lor 'the; Pro- ; teption of "Women, and- Children, andUrbason,..to, shoVr .that :one. of the'jirih--ciparca'tisef'of. "diarrhoea in "children'was impure, milk. A'Plunkstj'nur^..had'tq|d; tbe-milk; wai( dirty hiitl'.'tu'r'neU' sdui'-vety' quickly:" 'The";.\Y4lUn'gto']i;;.City'-.'Council - ,ho£tl"a ..Bill ;'6n"';the,-milk "question; before Parliament,..'"which; .'BillVaiine'd'at.' doing 6o'methirig imvatds':. imyi'oviiig'- the'llocai ■supply. The fact' : ;.that;;this. Bill _ had been'promoted, must man .that councillors recognised., that' the.miik supply of the cit3'.",was;not in a satisfactory conditiou, "omr'/thar I, the: people do not get pure, milk.." .-

• :JPhe .chief , impurities to bo . seeri when. milli-.was strained were dirt,, -'/ manure, (ia'irs;"and *liay, but''there .were bacteria also,J.aiid. they flourished in milk. Dr. Col-■lin^-Hye'nf ;pn ,to. necessity for-', keeping- : milk--in :S. cool.' 1 place, and deflt i ;at. lengtli;"-ivitli;;--the'-"various 'ini-; purities puf iiUo "millc to'keep : it-sweet.' Al6st ; ."6f :,thb impurities ;; go¥ into; the milk'at the ; ltiilkiiig' shed, where the. milk w.as kept,', or when in tra'nHt,''';,..

The; Consumer at Fault. . V. .V . Ohc ; ypf; ; -the* chief vplacjg;/where '" milk - gukjcontaminated, however, Vivas ..,'whcri. it. got to" the'.consumer.;- Ho thought ' the people .required educating'.to :look after, the piillt when they got it to their'ownhqraes.i Dr.v Collins went .on .to refer to the-diseases caused by impure milk, nam-, iug..-septic'poisoning, tuberculosis,, diarrhoea,., ;ahd"'enteritis," Diphtheria was also.;caused', by.,.lmpure milk in" s6me inskne'ep,. but. .it'.;was>difficult - to ...trace ,vfever " wasjahother disease,' buL't3'ph"oid,.was'.ihe i most" common diseiisij produced. by impiiro'Tnilk. The orof;,tHe ,diseases was Typhoid fever, '.-■arlet.'-.fever, and,, 'diphtheria.The. death'-rate'.in. Neu-Zealandlast year was '9.07-fov'.every .1000 percentage"; -hut the/greatest mortality . was am'pngst,. children under 12:. months, of age." .The " large infant, mortality. \vas pftobablyVdiie" or" was helped to' a V great extent Jy" some .impurity,' in", the milk. As tlvjj:: y&rs "gt>''- on, said" TDr.',: .Collins, we should rsrapjie with this "subject : ,an<l. to bacteriology." We" n'ould:','never,.'in his. opinion, get "a; pure. mfjk'""stfpply*'nntir we studied bactenolog:cal methods thoroughly, but he thought pu'te : milk'jVould come. The Remedy. ' iTlia.;oecupants. of farmers'' houses and, the people who did tho.milking- should, he .thought, ,bo registered rand immediateIy. aiiv form! of sickness .occurred in any . farm-nOuse' tho occupant should, be. compelled, to notify the Health Department of:.s:the; ioutbreak. ■ H<j ;.also thought n; doctor should pay ..surprise visits to farms and-see the. condition' of; the fnrin-honses and . occupants.. .. Such a . scheme he ■thought would get the co-operation of , the .-.farmers'who,; dealt in milk. - Some cows,-no doubt;, were specially susceptible to -tuberculosis,, just, as.spni'e: human beings were. . Ho had-been, told .that the Jersey cow,, for instance,, was mprc jirono to'ituberculosis .than»'l&?i Shorthorn;"antt' ha-. would.. like to; know ...if /this was so. He believed that 'in Wellington, wb6re probably' 8000? cows. would, be required, to supply, the ( . city with niilk, that'.lo 'p.er cent of tho cows would be found to bo suffering from . tuberculosis .'if tested. About' 2 per cent of. the * above, ho thought, would be found suffering. from tuberculosis , of , the,- udder. ;. Surprise visits by veterinary'surgeons would,' he considered, do' an 'immense, amount of good.-, What the Farmer Could Do. If the farmer consented to-report every case of sickness to a special officer, particularly - cases of sAre throat, if he consented to surprise visits- and if he would have bynss put .'up, properlv ventilated, aired' > and looked after,- and with floors that'can bo easily cleaned, .some good must be obtained, All tlmt was needed in addition to this was that the people who did the milking, should wear clean overalls, wash their hands in pure water arid-look after their nails.- Ibis was as far 'as he thought we could go with the farmer. .-The people .should Hie-i come iiu" Let"us,- said Dr..Collins,

have control depoU in town and at. these, places sterilise tho cans, seal them and .send them in the train in-a cool van at tho, expense of. tho city or tho Government to tho roilking-shed of tho producer. . The -. farmer would havo to see that all-things were clean at his end and that the can into which, he milked was sterilised. -The milk would coino from the cows into the sterilised pail from which it. would be turned, into th'e steril-. iscd "can to be immediately, sealed and brought .to town. -If it was kept-at the railway, station for any length of timo. tho milk should be placed in'a cool chamber until it could be removed to the depot. At the depots the milk would be analysed and .would go , through . allthc procoss of cooling and be placed into bottles which would bo sealed and removed to tho retailers. They must not ;make tbo farmer do everything. Something should be done.from the other end. If the expense was too great, but ho thought that" under his proposed system the milk would not cost .more than 4J<l. or oil. a quart, lio did not see why a special rato' should not bo levied much. iis tho water, rato was levied ; At . the close of Dr. Collins's spdech the debate was adjourned until this afternoon.