" So all gave him a puff, and two
of the better sort wrote really fine editorials about him. At election
time, or any other than a dull season, the case would have had small
attention, but August is the month, to reverse an old adage, when "any
news is good news."
The press began, too, a crusade against the swill-milk dealers, and the
men who had allowed all this to be possible. "What is the Health Board
about, that poison for children can be sold in the public streets?"
"Where is the District Attorney, that prosecutions for the public good
have to be brought by public-spirited citizens?" they demanded.
Lynx-eyed reporters tracked the milk-supplies of the city, and though
the alarm had been given, and many cows had been hastily sent to the
country, they were able to show up certain companies, and print details
which were quite lurid enough, when sufficiently "colored" by their
skilful pens. Most residents of New York can remember the "swill-milk"
or "stump-tail milk" exposures and prosecutions of that summer, and of
the reformation brought about thereby in the Board of Health.
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