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Health Officer having jttrisdiction over such production is properly enforcing such re, and ttu~ess past~eurized as l~rev!ded in this Chapter. Nol milk shall ~esold, offered for sale or distributed in the City as pasteurized milk, for h~can consumption within the z~y, unless the same shall have beenT, pas- teurized w_tn~n the limits of reasonable practi~cable ins~pection by the Health Officer. The Health Depart~ent of the CDty of Portsmouth and Norfolk operate under a co-ol~erative agreement with ~ef~rence to inspection and enforcement of their respectiv~ ordinances v~nich are similar in mos~ respec~s~ Quoting Section II of the City ~il~ Ordinance 'Nilk andmil~ products l~roduced and pasteurized beyond the limits of reasonable practicable in~p~0tion~ involves the question Of how much additional appropriation the City is ~llz~g to pay for Dairy and Inspec- tion work. At the present time, the dairy inspectors make inspections of dairies as far as sixty miles from the City~ ~ithout znvolv~ng much or any addz~_on~! e xpense~ probably this distance could be extended to seventy-five or eighty mile~ without any additional cost above present appropriation~ for Dairy ~ud ~ilk inspection work~ If the milk and dairy inspection work were extended to include dairi~ located within one htuudred twenty-five miles from the City, it would be necessary to provide an additional appropriation for this work. There are approximately twenty d'ai~ies in the vici~ ......... ~ ~ ' shipping milk to ni~y of Lawr~neevzlle and.ezghty dazrzes an. the. vz,c~n~yo ~ Am?las which are distributors in Tidewater, Virginia~ ~ne dairies in La-~rencevzlle district have been inspect- ed by the State Health Department personnel° The dairies Lo. the Amelia district have been in ~pected by tike Dairy and Food Division of the~ ~tate Department ~f Agriculture ~nda lsc, the personnel-from the Norfolk Health Depar*~ment. In order to inspeet the dairies in these two districts~ at least once a month, it would r~quire th~ time of one inspector for at least a full w eek~ In case th'e ~ity wanted~ ~o make monthly inspections of dairies located two hundred miles or mcr& distant Trom,the City, a furt~her additional appropriation would be required to do this work~ In the Staunton district, there are approximately one hundred sixty dairies which are ~,~ipping milk to producers in Tidewater~ Virginia. In order to make inspee- tion~ of these dairies~ it'would require that ~n inspector spend at least two weeks in the area~ At the present time, these dairies in the ~taunton district have been inspected by the Food and Dairy Division o f the State Department o f Agriculture and also, the persor~uel from the Norfolk Health Department. At the pres&n~ ti~e, 7~% of the milk ~sold in Portsmouth i s produced within sixty miles from the Czty~ All of these dazrzes com~ ,.u~.der the dzrect ~upervzszon, spection and control of the Portsmouth Health ~artment~ Thzs leaves only 25%of the City milk supply coming from dairies more than sixty miles from the City cT ~'c~ts~outh. The ideal City milk suPPly is one inWhich the City can and- does supervise the inspection Of the dairies and the pasteurization~pl~nts. ~ilk is a natual food ~or bacteria, and the closer the milk is producedto the citY, the easier it is to control the quality of the milk supply, The City milk supply ~ho~d .be pasteurized under the direct supervision of the City Health Department. ~ith the pasteurization olants under the direct supervision of the Health Department~ it is possible at all times ~o ~ake frequent inspections of the'plants ~nd also keep a constant the ualit of the milk supply. The~~ has been a g~eat improvement in the facilities check on q y for better refrigeration o f milk. During the World ~¥ar ii it was found possible to quick- freeze pasteurized milk whfch had been homogenized and keep it in a ~rozen state for au in-def- i~ite period of time~ Pasteurized milk of good quality will usually keep in the average mechanical household refrigerator three or four days~ ~Lv..%.J. Talbot who nas been ~wzth the City s~nce July, 1942, and J.D. Hanbury, who has been ~¥zth the City since November, 1940, work in the Dairy ~ivis ion ~nder the supervision'of .~'l!liam F. Lav~nece.'City Bacteriologist, and~Assistant to-the D-irec- tor~ ~ing the'War period, D~. Beechwood, U,S. Publzc Health Servzce, was ~zlk co-ordinator in this district. He workedva'r~y closely with both~Iro TAlbot~and ~L~, Hanbury and devoted Of his time in training milk ss_~itarians in this district~ ~!r. Hanbury has also taken a spe- cial course $*~ the School of Public ~alth at North Ca~oZina, S~chool of Public Healthin the Dair~ Division. He worked under the supervision of ~r, O.B. Nebiett, State Eilk Sanitarian, State Department of Health. Both of these men are members Of the ~LVirginia Association of Nilk Sanitarians, and also' the local Tidewater .~ilk~ar.,itari~s. They'have taken a dv~utage of in- service-trainir~g courses, l~illiam P. Y~awrence, City BactePiologist, and Assistant to the Di~ rector has examined the~City Y.~lk supply since August ~lg2l; He holds a ~aster of Public Healt] Degree from the Harvard University School of Public Health. do not recommend the employment of additional personnel requir ed to -e~abl8 the Health Department to extend and enlarge its milk shed to~erve the City of Ports - mouth.~' 0n motion filed. 6th - ~'I am submitting he.rewith a resolution authorizing the borrow- ing of funds in the amount not to exceed$93~,000.00.-in anticipation of the collection of the revenues of the City for the calendar year 1950~'~ Resolution ~Reso!ved, that the City of Portsmouth borrow from the American National Bank, Portsmouth; Virginia, the stun of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000~00) in anticipation of the collection of the ~evenues of the City for the calendar year 1950; that the proper officers be authorized ~o make a note or notes matur- ing at ~ny time prior to December $1st, 1950, and the revenues of ~he City for ~e current year are pledged to the repa~w-ment of such borrowLug.