New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-29
MILK TEARING ENDS.
OPINIONS OF DOCTORS.
academy of Medicine Protests
against PasteurisatiOn Scheme.

The aldsrrnanie committee on milk wound up its
public hearings yesterday. Mayor Brush of Mount
Vernon. a milk expert, was one OF the speakers
Let us once content ourselves with tie idea that
,,ss,e1,rization Will free milk from the tube-culous
faint and the faint OF other diseases with which
she COW IS suffering" he said. and We VIII then
forget the necessity Of eliminating the diseases from
the dairy. The milk from 2 sick cow. no matter IL
& has been thoroughly pasteulized. or even ster-
Sized IS not good food for the young or the Old
either"
Mayor brush said further that tuberculosis could
never be stamped out by killing cattle. which he
called fool system so long as the causes which
produced the disease we're sim at work. He also
said that reports OF tuberculosis among dairy COWS
were grossly exaggerated and said that the health
authorities were calling every affection they found
tubercular. He did not believe pasteurzation I'M
Y-uvsd the milk. he added. and thought II de-
creased the nutritive value. so that there were
etin two faulty factors-milk from diseased cow
and milk that was practically dead. He held that
a baby fed on that variety OF milk would always
&c IN condition contract tuberculosis, and that
y ha.ever reform was necessary TO guard the IN
fants from tuberculosis and nanutriti3n must take
place in The dairy. and not in the city.
Dr. Darlington who had been invited to appear
lefore the committee. sent this letter instead:
While I appreciate the opportunity offered me
by the committee feel that. having already sent
Tie work now being done by the department. ana
which state the line of Investigations now IN prog
ihe public statement issued by the board last week
these embe.dy all there is 10 be said upon t.S
subject unt the board has received the results OF
its Investigations and has adopted polleE 10Y
further reg ulation of the milk supply
Should yUuE committee have any Information
which they desire the board 10 consider such in
formation would ee most thoroughly appreciated
Dr. Emerson submitted a set Of resolutions
pd.,Dted By tho section OF public health OF the
Kew, York Academy Of Medicine March Il and
presented TO the academy on March p. which say
that ihe section does believe in the necessity OF
lhe compulsory pasteuriZation Of all OF the MIX
supply OF New York City. but recommends for the
prosent e all those whose milk supply cannot be
proven to be thoroughly inspected and wholesome.
end mainly ne milk destined for the feeding OF
sbfEn:s anlzss q is certified boil their milk,
wien dell-sTed in TIE morning for three minutes
TIE Tes3sJfisas further demand persistence IN
tAs srpese.s;o. u farms diaries and creameries. Of
TsIlk transit ard during delivery in the city and
at dis.r:Sz.ius points whether pasteurized not.
A sl7Gasr recommendation is that the local. state
e-d federal euhor:ties should cooperate with milk
prcducers 10 prevent the occurrence Of communi-
cable disease in cattle and their caretakers.
Or. Noyak o. TIE MIX Commission of Kings
County said thar pasreurization did not kill the
bscil l.. milk and that in a sample Of milk so
treated 2o,G30,OOo germs a cubic centimetre were
found.
lstions were adopted there would be a milk famine
IN ;he cl:y IN three months. He also declared that
laanded. hacterioIogist had recently found
c:eeaSe germs in eggs.
''-.ie New York Medical Journal says editoTially
n rs issue OF this week:
Ever stree tho agitation started for the
p:lso:y nosfeur:.ation Of the entire milk supply OF
New York W have fought against the scheme. II
any hody has a lingering doubt that
tanned by the medical profession OF the city
viii cail bis attention to the facts that on March Y
the Section IN Public Health Of the New York
Academy Of Medicine passed a resolution and rec
Cmnended its adoption by the academy at large
and that March 81 the academy did adopt IL.
After giving the fun text OF the resolutions read
q The aldermanic committee by DR.. Emerson. the
editorial goes on:
This action Of rhe Section IN Public Health. fully
ENDORSED hy the academy a whole must do away
with I'll uncertainty as 70 the sentiments Of the
medical prof ssiOn OF New York with regard 20 the
foolish movement for Wholesale compulsory pas
feugiza.iCn. We hone the last has been heard of
that crazy agitation.