E. Myotte....

12.21

8.71

3.5

61000 8-13-08 Frank D. White.

Rutland..

cream 52.0

Refractometer 41 0

Submitted. Clean milk. Bacteria 2000 per cc. High quality

Clean

.

Submitted. Rather high in sediment. Sample from top of can

BULLETIN OF THE

VERMONT STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

Volume IX. No. 1.

Issued Quarterly at Brattleboro, Vermont.

The Bulletin is published quarterly by the State Board of Health under the authority of Section 5 of Act No. 90, Legislature of 1900. It will be sent to all Boards of Health. A copy will be sent to any person in the state upon request addressed to the Secretary, Henry D. Holton, Brattleboro.

NEWS ITEMS.

CHANGES IN THE LABORATORY STAFF.

Prof. H. L. White, medico-legal chemist at the Laboratory of Hygiene since 1904, resigned July 1 to accept the position of professor of physiological chemistry in the North Dakota Agricultural College and School of Pharmacy. Dr. L. P. Sprague of the Laboratory staff has been appointed medico-legal chemist to succeed Professor White, and Mr. H. L. Thompson, A. B., has been appointed food and drug inspector and analyst. Mr. Thompson is a graduate of Leland-Stanford University and was recently in the employ of the California Board of Health as food inspector and chemist.

The American Public Health Association, at its annual meeting in Winnipeg elected the following officers: Dr. Gardiner T. Swarts, of Providence, president; Dr. R. M. Simpson, of Winnipeg, first vice president; Dr. Jesus Chico, of Mexico, second vice president; Major Charles F. Mason, U. S. A., third vice president; Dr. Charles O. Probst, of Columbus, Ohio, secretary, and Dr. Frank W. Wright, of New Haven, treasurer. The convention reversed the committee's decision to meet at Milwaukee next year, and will hold its next session at Richmond.

The most important resolution passed by the convention follows:

Resolved, That this association heartily recommends to the American Congress the passage of such legislation as will tend to enlarge the scope and increase the efficiency of the public health and marine hospital service. To this end this association believes the power of the service should be increased; that provision should be made for the retention under pay of

members of the service, and that the salaries of said members should be made commensurate with the medical service of the army. The secretary is instructed to send a copy of this resolution to the chairman of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and the corresponding committee of the Senate.

The long-continued drought has brought about an increased demand for water analyses. During the first twenty-nine days of August, 103 samples of water have been received at the Laboratory. With such a demand for outfits, parties requesting water outfits must fill and return them

at once.

During the past quarter food and drug analyses at the Laboratory of Hygiene have been made as follows: legal, 18 adulterated, 14 misbranded. legal, 14 adulterated, 17 misbranded. above standard, 42 below standard.

Foods, 106 samples, of which 74 were
Drugs, 91 samples, of which 60 were
Milk, 208 samples, of which 166 were

The larger part of these samples were collected by the food and drug inspector. Some were collected by the health officers and some submitted. In all cases, notices of the results of the analyses were sent to the parties from whom they were purchased. To those selling adulterated or misbranded articles, warning notices were sent. These dealers have in all cases thus far investigated discontinued the sale of the illegal goods.

No cases of dirty milk have as yet been prosecuted, but all second offences have been reported to the state's attorney of that county. In Rutland county the state's attorney called a meeting of the milkmen and explained to them the course which he should pursue if they again sold dirty milk, with the result that the milk since analyzed from that county has been clean.

Special attention is called to the standard for ice cream, which is as follows:

ICE CREAM.

1. Ice cream is a frozen product made from cream and sugar, with or without pure gelatine and a natural flavoring, and contains not less than fourteen (14) per cent of milk fat.

2. Fruit ice cream is a frozen product made from cream, sugar and sound, clean, mature fruits, with or without pure gelatine, and contains not less than twelve (12) per cent of milk fat.

3. Nut ice cream is a frozen product made from cream, sugar and sound, non-rancid nuts, with or without pure gelatine, and contains not less than twelve (12) per cent of milk fat.

It is thus seen that pure gelatine is the only "stiffening" which can legally be used, a fact which does not seem to be generally known to ice cream manufacturers.

REPORT OF EXAMINATIONS MADE AT THE STATE LABORATORY OF HYGIENE.

Examinations of liquors from secretary of state from May 1 to September 1, 1908:

Examination of liquors submitted by license commissioners from May 1 to September 1, 1908:

Specimens examined from April 1, 1908, to September 1, 1908.

THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON TUBERCULOSIS.

An unusual opportunity will be afforded the medical profession and all persons interested in the study and prevention of tuberculosis to listen to the scientific men of the world who have made a study of this disease in all its forms. The preliminary program has just been issued. More than a hundred scientists from across the seas have signified their intention of