The city health department has developed into a “milk recommendation bureau” as the result of examinations made of the milk sold in Charlotte by Mecklenburg producers. People have ceased making their selectins of dairymen in accordance with the price charged but after receiving assurance that the product is pure and wholesome.
Daily calls come to the health department, according to City Bacteriologist Duncan, requesting that a dairyman be recommended who produces pure mil or inquiring if the milk furnished by such and such a dairyman is pure.
Department officials decline to recommend a dairyman. They are glad to inform prospective milk purchasers if a dairyman about to be selected sells pure milk. Or the department will furnish information concerning the scores made by the various dairymen.
The big majority of Mecklenburg dairymen meet all requirements of the health department so that the city consumer can be reasonably sure that the milk purchased from any local producer is pure. But the health department officials are appreciative of the interest taken by local consumers in procuring pure milk, and this has given impetus to the efforts of dairymen to furnish a wholesome product.
“It is right that customers should cease buying their milk according to its price and buy it according to its quality,” said Dr. Duncan. “It is one of the most necessary of foods, yet dangerous if it is not pure.”
From the Charlotte News, Oct. 2, 1921
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