The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08

80 It was decided to stop pasteurizatlon and
to establish o central milk station on Q farm
where tho effort could properly. be made
to keep tho dirt and germs out OF the milk.
IL was believed that clean milk, or milk APP
proximately clean, having no more than
2 10000 bacteria to the cubic oentim etre,
needed no application OF heat TO render II
ft food for babies.
For the central station q farm where
cattle, barn and surroundings are. In good
condition and where the farmer " willing
to take more than usual care Of his COWS "
ing farm Is not looked for, but one where
the ordinary COLI itions existing may be
improved upon 10 as to make them mt ior
the desired purpose. This central station
has been placed on three different farms in
six years.
An agreement is made with the farmer
on whose place the milk laboratory is 90:
tablished to take all Of his milk at a fixed
price, from four and a half to five cents q
quart. and to get all the ice needed from
him at the market price. The laboratory
consists OF a portable wooden house, iex22'
tables. milk utensils, bottles. boxes for
shipping milk and the necessary cleaning
utensils.
Besides this there are three tents, one
where the bottles are washed, another lor
the sterilizing Of the utensils and the other
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to which running water IL piped from 2
large ~cistern. The drainage from the sink
Ii piped away In an open drain.
At this laboratory the most complete
precautions are taken to keep the mix
clean. After cans and utensils are washed
they are steriIized and enclosed In cheese
cloth bags until they are used the next
The Bottles are washed, rinsed, sterilized,
placed In racks on b tables, their mouths
being stopped with cotton batting TO pre-
vent d IT, l from ,r entering s : MI, them oqnar wH Wa1 ~
rinsing bottles and standing them upside
down to drain dry. q,
The nurse and her assistant supeintend
the milking, in which process every osre
Is taken to wee that no dirt or dust finds It's
way into the milk.
When the milking Is completed the vari-
GUS mixtures are made, four in number,
the sugar Is added and the milk Is moked
off into nursing bottles. These arc then
oorked with rubber corks, placed In wooden
shipping trays, holding four dozen each,
the different CITY stations.
Milk prepared In this manner, as shown
by successive daily counts, contains on an
averag &c less than ID, 900 bacteria to the cubic
centimetre, while the ordinary milk con-
tains more than fifty times as many bao-
terra. This milk will keep sweet for days
oN "
ice in the house.
Not having been subjected to heat. il Is
asserted that it is more easily digested by
infants than ~pasteurized or steriliaed COWS
milk and that 1t does not poison the baby
by adding a large number Of bacteria to a
child's digestive apparatus. as does ordinary
milk.
AS the milk Is given to the mother prop
erly diluted and s~weetened. 1t requires no
addition Of other substances. And az 1t
is already in a sterilized nursing bottle.
it is not necessary to do anything to II
other than to remove the rubber cork, fit
a clean nipple to the bottle. warm It,
This. DIR. Goler believes. approximates the
ideal milk for the hand fed baby.
Rochester's success In dealing with this
problem Ia illustrated in the following
table showing all the deaths under hve
years from all causes in the nine years
preceding the commencement OF the milk
work and the nine years following: