The milk-house is located in door-yard between the dwelling and stable building, about ten feet distant from each. The milk-house is a roughly built structure, about ten by twelve by eight feet in size. It contains a rough, loosely-joined hemlock floor. Milk is stored in cans placed in large coolingvats. The vats in use, at time of this inspection, were dirty and greasy from neglect and accumulations of milk around the top and edges of wooden cover. Utensils and bottles were strewn among the rubbish which littered up the room. A slut and her litter of puppies had free access to the place through the open door. A heap of decomposing stable manure and garbage was stored against the only side of the milk-house which contains a window. The ledges and roughly finished woodwork of the interior of milk-house is covered with dust The interior has never been limecoated nor painted. The air in the milkhouse is polluted with stable odors. Water-supply is from driven well, located beneath dwelling, with sink-drain leading to cesspool about twenty feet distant. Cans, bottles and utensils are washed in milk-house with warm water brought from dwelling. No apppli ance for sterilizing. Average daily sales, about seventy-five quarts. About thirty-one quarts are bottled at night and delivered in morning. Supply is from Wm. Robbinson and G. Robbins, Deal Beach. Two persons handle the milk. When supply runs short deficiency is bought from any dealer who can supply it. Accompanying diagram shows relative position of milk-house, stable and dwelling. Sample of water marked W. A. P., No. 82, was taken for analysis. GENTLEMEN-I have this day inspected the milk depot conducted by Walter C. Parker, West Bradley Beach, Monmouth county, N. J., and respectfully submit the following report: Milk is stored in an open wagon-shed attached to the stable building. This shed is also used as a storage-house for rubbish. The milk-cans are kept in cooling-vat partly filled with iced water. The water-supply is from a dug well located beneath the shed at dwelling. The well is about thirty feet distant from an overflowing privy-vault, which consists of wooden box sunk into the ground. Waste fluids and garbage are thrown upon the ground around the well. The ground around the rear of the dwelling shows unmistakable evidence of such pollution. Ice-supply is from Seashore Ice Company. Milk cans are returned to dairy unwashed. Small cans, utensils and bottles are washed in kitchen at dwelling. About sixty quarts of milk is sold daily. About fifteen quarts of this amount is bottled. When supply runs short milk is purchased from any source obtainable. Sample of water marked W. C. P., No. 4, was taken for analysis. March 24th, 1899. REPORT OF MILK DEPOT INSPECTION. D. C. BOWEN, Inspector. To the Board of Health of the State of New Jersey: GENTLEMEN-I have this day inspected the milk depot conducted by Henry Truax, No. 80 South Main street, Ocean Grove, Monmouth county, N. J., and respectfully submit the following report: About one hundred quarts of milk is now being sold from this depot daily. About one-half of this amount is bottled. The supply is from dairies conducted by Forman T. Striker and W. S. Hunt, Oakhurst, Monmouth county. [See reports on dairies dated November 21st, 1898.] The room in which milk is stored is in the stable building. A loft above the milk-room is used as a storage-room for general purposes. The milk-room is about fifteen feet square, and contains three cooling-vats. A portion of the room has a loose plank floor, and the balance of the room has an earth floor. The plank floor is probably never scrubbed, and, if so, the washings, together with sloppings from cans and cooling-vats, fall upon and pollute the ground beneath it. The room is dusty and dirty, and festooned with cobwebs. The wooden casings of the cooling-vats are decaying and filthy. An iron sink, with a short branch of lead waste-pipe loosely placed in the open mouth of a tile drain pipe, serves as a drain for fluid waste. This sink sets flush with the wooden floor. The tile drain, it is stated, connects with the sewer passing near by. The opening of the tile drain where lead pipe enters was stuffed with a piece of decaying carpet, which, Mr. Truax stated, was for the purpose of "keeping out the smell." The odors of drain-air emitted from this opening in the sewer were perceptible in the milk-room at the time of this inspection. The air about the milk-house is polluted by a large pile of stable manure stored within five feet of the room, together with other unclean conditions which exist around the place. Waste fluids from washing cans and bottles are thrown upon the surface of the ground near by, where cans and bottles are washed and dried. Water-supply is from Ocean Grove's public water-supply. Ice-supply, stored in ice-house, adjoining milk-house; harvested on Romain's pond. Milk cans are washed and dried in the surroundings above described and returned to dairies, where they are filled without further cleansing. Bottles are washed on a bench just outside of the milk-house, near closet apartments, in lukewarm water and left standing there until refilled just before delivery. The bottles ready to be filled at time of this inspection were unclean. March 27th, 1899. D. C. BowEN, |