The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-07-30
GERMS GROW AGAIN
As Soon as the Milk Is Cooled
These Are the Theories
Advanced by Or.
J. A. Douds.
Canton, Ohio, July q, 1901.

III tneSe udyS Oh eAtOTtlOu WHeu
everything, even to the necessaries of
life, is being controlled in the interest
of the few to the disadvantage OF the
many, il was no great surprise to learn
that milk trust was to be organized,
in which the net profit to the promoters
is to be $4,000 a month, and in whose
interest the city council is to be work
ed" to secure, under the specious plea
of sanitation, measures compelling the
"pasteurizing" of all milk before being
delivered to the consumer.
Aside from calling attention to the
personnel OF those composing the alleg-
ed trust leaving everyone to judge for
himself as to which will reap the great
est advantage, the public or the trust,
the purpose of this article is to call at
tention, as briefly as possible, to some
facts which may enable the reader ~
judge as to the practical value Of the
process which is to purify" one of our
most important articles of food.
Among the many eminent investiGa-
tors who have made the germ theory
of disease life study great diversity
Of views are held on many points, but
all agree as to the tenacity of life
shown by all bacteria.
OF the zymotic or what may be re-
garded as preventable diseases which
may be communicated through the
media of impure water, liquid or solid
foods, perhaps the most common and
dreaded are consumption, typhoid and
scarlet fevers, the bacterial germs Of
which, according to Lindsey, an emin-
ent author and investigator, are among
the most tenacious of life of all organ
pecially to the high power Of resistance
of their spores or seeds.
Experiments by this author and 9TH
ers proved that bacteria placed in an
oven of sheet metal over a powerful
gas jet resisted temperature up to 31S
degrees before being destroyed. Ger
tain others were destroyed by steam at
2l2 degrees in forty-fve minutes; at
$50 degrees in 25 minutes; at $50 de-
grees in one minute, and in many var
ieties without affecting their spores.
1t is conceded by the advocates of the
"pasteurizing" process that the limit
of temperature to which milk may be
subjected is 140 degrees or considerably
under the boiling point without affect
ing in some form or other it's nutritiye
qualities, and while according to the
authorities quoted, this and up to a
boiling temperature may check the
growth and some forms may be destroy
ed, but the bacterial spores or seeds
remain unchanged and growth is soon
resumed after cooling. This being the
case, what becomes of the much talked
of "pasteurizing" process?
Koch "the master of recent bacteriol-
ogy" in his last report of recent re-
searches to the British congress on
July 23, 1901, stated that human tuber-
culosis and that of animals are entirely
different diseases, and proved that the
human could not be communicated to
animals, and though more difficult tc
prove, but by numerous expert.
ments satisfied himself that animal
tuberculosis could not be communicated
to man, and that he regarded the dan.
ger of human infection as so slight as
to be unworthy of precautionary
means"
That the typhus and some other bac
| I'LL can live in water has been amply
proven by the authorities quoted ant
that milk also is favorable to their de-
yelopment, and that both may be the
vehicle by which disease germs may b'
conveyed to the tissues and organs o.
the human body upon which they hav,
specific action. But upon the sam,
authority milk is free from germs tn,
moment it leaves the body, but as sool
as il comes in contact with the air o.
the hand or unsanitary vessels the!
find their way into it and multiply rap
idly.
The conclusion then is that tn,
dreaded disease germs are introduce,
into milk from external sources, and !
the authorities quoted count for any
thing the 'pasteurizing' processes, arr
to say the least, of doubtful utility ant
should the city council be disposed Il
take any action on this matter 1T shoulS
be done after a most thorough investi
cation of the subject by competent an,
disinterested persons whose testi
mony would be regarded as scientific.
Attention is again called to the fac
that the sources of contamination ar,
external, and in addition to the inspec
tion of cattle by competent persons
the producer and dealer should, II nee
essary, be compelled to observe tn
rules of cleanliness and made to feel
personal responsibility to the consum
er, which would not be felt were
"pasteurizing" plant made the common
dunn for, everything called milk an,
the consumer be compelled to take
product put through process which
deluded public may find to their regre
to be a disseminator rather than tn
preventer of disease.
In order that this most necessar
ARTICLE of food should be made fit 70
innocent children as we'll as for genera
use, plain dictate Of wisdom would
to observe the adage IAN ounce Of pre-
vention is worth pound Of cure"