St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-10

The dealer was promptly prosecuted
and the sale Immediately stopped"
There are occasionally cases brought
to our notice of the sale of milk
FROM DISEASED ANIMALS.
Only a few days ago sample was
brought to me which plainly showed its
unnatural character. An examination
showed the presence of blood and pus,
and that the milk was in all probability
drawn from cow affected with the dis
ease commonly called garget, essentially
an inflammation of the udder. Such
milk is unwhOleSome and has been
known to produce vomiting, diarrh9a,
or even III some cases symptoms similar
to those sometimes found in poisoning"
There are numerous other diseases
which may be transmitted by milk, some
of (which are derived from the cows
from which the milk is taken, and others
from the persons about the dairy.
Among the latter class are included ty-
phoid fever, diphtheria and scarlet
fever, all serious and often fatal forms
OF disease. In 1881 a paper was pre-
Sented before the international medical
congress in London which gave the par
tlcularS and results of investigation of
Il epldemicS of these diseases traceable
to milk. There were noted $500 cases
of typhoid fever, 800 of scarlatina and
500 of diphtheria. 1t is thus seen that
such epidemicS are by no means rare.
Scarlet fever is generally transmitted
by the minute, Dran-like scales which
become detached from the skin of the
patient coming into contact with the
milk in some way or other. Just how
diphtheria is conveyed is not known,
though that milk has served as a me-
dunn of transmission for this disease is
abundantly proven"
1.-The attention of the commission has
lately been directed to another form of
adulteratiOn of dairy products, namely
cheese. The method practiced displays
considerable ingenuity, and requires
careful chemical analysis for its detec-
ton. 1t consists in the substitution of
foreign fats such as lard, ''OleO oil, ;" or
some similar substance for the natural
milk fats which have been previously
removed and made into butter. A
thorough investigation has recently been
made with the result of demonstrating
that
THE INFAMOUS TRAFFIC
is almost universal in the larger cities.
A prominent commission merchant re-
Gently Informed me that he believed
that NEARLY every commission house in
this city was selling such cheese, and
that they were aware of their adulter-
ated character l have recently had
completed the analysis of thirty samples
of cheese, bought at random in this city
and Saltwater, and have found sixteen
of them to be adulterated with foreign
fats proportion varying from Is to- SIS
per cent. The added fats were appar-
emily lard in nearly every case,
although few were evidently of more
oily nature, in part at least. The fraud
is not limited to skim, or part skim
scheese, as six of the adulterated sam
pies are evidently intended to pass as
full cream, eight are part skim and only
two are full cream cheeses. Twenty
samples are colered with annatto to
give them Itch yellow hue, and twen-
ty-three have boracic acid or borax
added to aid their preservation.
''Such results are certainly surpris-
ing, but they hardly need be, since they
are but fair examples of great num-
Der of substances used as foods, as l
could eadilydemoustrate from extensive
series of analysis which have already
made and am now making. The dairy
law is accomplishing a great deal of
good, but much more could be done in
suppressing adulteration if its scope
was extended and made to include food
stutfS in general"