[Reports and Appendices] of the Irish Milk Commission, 1911.

  • Great Britain. [Royal] Commission on the Irish Milk Supply.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Reports and Appendices] of the Irish Milk Commission, 1911. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DELAHUNTY, E. J .—continued. Milk records are not kept in the country as a rule, 23421-9. There is no creamery in the county, 23430. There is scarcity of milk in Tullamore in the winter, 23451-r). It is allegsd that cows yield less milk than formerly, 23431-7, 23467-70, 23513. The Shorthorn is regarded as a very successful general purpose breed, 23438-9. The good heifers are not kept for breeding, but are sold for want of capital, 23440-1. The existence of credit banks in the county would partly meet the difficulty, 23528. Occupants of labourer's cottages do not keep cows, 23442-3. Farmers supply niilk to labourers who work for them, 23444-50. A municipal dairy in Tullamore should be a success, 23456-66, 23494-5. t'atch crops are grown to a certain extent for winter milk, 23472-81; number so engaged is increasing, 23482-4, 23502. Goats are not largely kept in the county, 23498, 23.503-6. DENNEHY, DR. PATRICK R. (Medical Officer of Health, Lismore). The Lismore R. D. Council have appointed the sub-sanitary ofiicers as dairy inspectors, but not a Veterinary Inspector under the Dairies Order, 25517-21, 25596-601; it is a question of expense, 25522-3; as to the enforcement of the Order, 25576-80. There are some creameries in the district from which separated milk is sold, 25525-8. There is scarcity of milk from October to May, 25532-7. Milk for children on the doctor's order cannot be procured, 25540-2, 25588-90, 25636. To avoid being registered imder the Order farmers will not sell milk, 25538-9. The independence of the labourer of the farmer has restricted the labourer's supplj, 25543-7; so also does the creamery, 25552. The Order is inconsistent in not taking cognizance of the home butter-maker, 25554-8. The County should be the unit for administration of the Order, 25583-7. Winter dairying non-existent because it docs not pay, 25610-7. Separated milk is a fair food for adults, 25651. There is a prejudice against it, 25646-9: it is used fresh to avoid the danger of putrefaction, 25652-8. Advocates District Council milk depots, supplied by the farmers, 25663-4, 25614. This would encourage winter dairying, 25665-9. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, IRELAND. He Cattle Disease. Alleged introduction of abortion among cattle (Co. Cork) by premium bulls, 14801-6, 14840-66. Re Milk Production. The use of Department's funds to purchase Kerry cows as prizes would not go far, 12909-10. Should encourage winter dairying, 14293. Half the Department's funds allocated to the Live Stock Scheme should be devoted to providing Kerry cows for labourers, the money to be under the control of the I.A.O.S., 14750A-58. Should have power to make loans for pm-chase of cows, 23969. Re Cattle Breeding. Complaints that the use of premium bulls of non- milking strain is responsible for diminished milk yield of cows, 12717-8, 13818-24, 13541-6, 13.564, 14796-801, 14807-39, 15092, 17589-91, 195.30-8, 19547-50, 20949-56, 21351-3. Further as to premium bulls, alleged to be a source of disease, etc., see Bulls. The Department should seek to improve the dairy breed of cattle in Co. Cork, which is devoted to dairying, 12779-81. Breeding from good milking cows will improve the milking quality of cows, 12782-5; the breed from bulls of a milking strain would accelerate matters, 12785-6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, IRELAND— continued. The Department's dairy bull scheme has not been taken up much in Co. Cork, 15029-33. Scheme to keep Kerrv cattle in the country, 20527- 30, 20536. Department should send premium bulls to a county, the same as they send premium boars, for farmers M'ith a low valuation, 23404. Sundry. Value of winter classes, 18565-8. Department should keep a register of persons who could supply surplus milk to districts in whicli there is scarcity, 24420-3. This could be done in respect of produce other than milk, 24420. DIARRHCEA. Milk infected by flies a cause of infantile diarrhoea, 12188. General causes of summer diarrhoea, 12227-9. Summer diarrhoea due to contaminated milk, 13557-8. DIETARY of the people changed. Bread and tea are preferred to porridge and milk, 21868-73, 21943, 24603-5, 24616. Defective dietary has reduced the national stamina : milk not available, and tea and baker's bread used instead, 14121, 14173, 14177-8. Home-made bread not used beacuse. of difficulty of procuring milk, 14570. DILLON-KELLY, DR. J. (]\Iedical Superintendent Officer of Health, MulUngar). There is sufficient milk in Mullingar in summer, but scarcity in winter, 24308, 24328-9. Some people went out of business on account of Dairies Order, 24309. Recommends that a number of depots (supplied by farmers) be establislied by the Rural Council for the sale of milk, 24309, 24348-56. The loss, if any, to be borne by the rates, 24312. The justification is that the health of the people is concerned, 24309-13; and that improved health means a gain in the long run, 24314-6. Tuberculosis is partly due to malnutrition, and a good milk supply would help to reduce the disease, 24325-7. Farmers who refuse to sell milk rather than come under the Dairies Order, 24339-40. Would like to see improved foreign bred goats introduced, 24342-7. Porridge would bo more used if milk were pro- curable, 24359. The poor use condensed milk in lieu of fresh milk, 24360-2. DISEASE, OUTBREAKS OF, CAUSED BY IN- FECTED MILK. Outbreaks of disease caused by :— Milk, 19093-9. 19202, 19252-6, 19315, 19806-9. Outbreaks at :— Cork City, 12249, 12172-9. Limerick (typhoid), 15206-11. Kilworth (typhoid), 15213-4. Ennistymon (typhoid), 16236-40. Galwav (tvphoi'd), 20600, 20638, 20670-84: action taken, 20601-3. Castlebar Asvlum (enteric), 23223, 23242, 23250 23269-73. Waterford (scarlet fever), 25084-5, 25123-8. Every doctor should be required to notify the creamery manager of infectious disease in the house of a person supplying milk, 16606-13. Compulsory notification of tuberculosis suggested as a means of detecting disease in dairy premises 21441. Milk infected with scarlatina—the cause would be human, not bovine, 24730-1. Cow-pox believed to be communicable bv millc 24732-3. Roundabout method of dealing with infectious disease attributable to milk under sec. 4 of the Infectious Diseases (Prevention) Act 1890 24942-3.