New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-09-30
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
CARE OF THE BODY
How to Acquire and Retain the Priceless Posses
W sion of Good Health
Milk 40 a Source Of Infection.


The Anti-Tuberculosis Society OF
Battle Greek, Mich, gave m interest
ing exhibition recently at the Santa
rum In that city. The state inspector
OF milk, assisted by the local health
oficer and the superintendent Of the
sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich, has
been investigating the condition OF
the diaries that supply milk to the
people Of the city, and the results OF
the investigation, as shown by stereOp-
ticon views, afforded an object lesson
that must certainly be effective.
Photographs were taken of the barns
and stables where cows are kept. and
OF the barnyards, and pictures Of these
were thrown on the screen. The farm
ers around Battle Creek are certainly
AZ enterprising as those in any other
section of the country, and conditions
there may be taken as fair average;
yet the dairy inspector for this dis
trict stated that there were but few
diaries where the conditions were
strictly sanitary and proper, while
there were many which were decided
ly the reverse. Views were then
shown upon the screen, from photo
graphs recently taken of dairy barns
and yards, some showing extremely
bad cOnditions-stables full of filth
and barnyards where cows stood in
ponds of manure water which could
not fail to contaminate their drinking
water supply. Dirty cows can give
only dirty milk, and such milk is I'M
At for human food. Other pictures
showed proper cooling facilities where
the milk was cooled as soon as it was
taken from the COW, and without con-
.tamination from stable odors, and
where the cows had clean, light and
well ventilated stables. Photographs
we're also shown of various cultures"
AZ affected by diseased milk, as they
appeared under the microscope. First,
q photograph Of culture" from pure
milk was thrown on the screen. 1t
showed merely a blank space. Then
samples Of the growths in the ordinary
milk were exhibited, and all manner
OF germ colonies were revealed-ty-
phoid. diphtheria. tuberculosis and
others. II is safe to say that few
who saw the exhibition will hence
forth use milk without knowing def
nitely the conditions under which 1t
was produced.
No human being could live where
the majority Of cows are stabbed
without speedily contracting fevers
and consumption; and investigations
have shown that cows are no less sus-
ceptible. In this one item of milk, we
have the source of vast deal of tu-
berculosis and typhoid, which is who'll
ly preventible. This being the case,
the continuance of such conditions is
q crime. Let every community or
ganize itself into health society, and
demand, for one thing, pure milk
supply, and the good results will |
speedily be manifest.
open-Air Treatment in City Hospitals.
The leading hospitals of the country |
are giving great attention to outdoor
treatment. The nurses take their |
charges out in wheelchairs and on
cots In great numbers whenever the |
weather will permit
When visiting the state insane hos |
pital located at Rochester. Mimi. re-
Gently, the writer observed that
great number Of the patients were out |
doors. Some of the men were en-
gagged in an animated game of base
ball, which was watched by hundreds
more, apparently with as much inter-
est as Is usually displayed on such
occasions.
In the plans for the nine-milion-dol-
lar hospital to be built in New York
to take the place of the old Bellevue
hospital buildings, ample provision is
made for wide balconies communicate
ing with every pavilion, and for
great roof garden, SO that all the pa
tents will have an opportunity for
contact with the outdoor air. The
outdoor treatment is measure of the
greatest Importance, and Is destined
10 receive increasing attention.
The Food AZ prinrevaf MAJ