The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-25
IS AGAINST PAST U lIZtNG
IT IS ONLY TEMPORARY
Milk Requires Complete Erad- ication of Bovine Tu-
 berculosis.

of medical milk commissions, strong of medical milk Commissions, strongly tional milk congress at Brussels, Bel, the compulsory pasteurization of milk as means of effectively improving the supply of milk Dr. Colt said that to employ pasteurization as anything more than temporary expedient would be undesirable because it would remove the incentive to the public to compel the producer to accomplish an improvement. Pasteurized milk in bulk is clean raw milk, declared pr. Colt, but is actually unsafe unless it is consumed within A hours and is kept at or below 10 degrees centigrade. pr. [ Colt also said: ITO resort to the com pulsory pasteurization of the milk supply of large cities as a protection against tuberculosis, instead of taking more radical measures for it's eradi- i cation from milk herds, would be pro- 1 tecting only those who live In the TUT al districts The only real safeguard lis in the complete eradication of i bovine tuberculosis,
 Dr. Colt said further:
 I have been sent with the crdentials of national federation of physicians cnd sanitarians known as The ! American association of medical milk l commissions, which body Is engaged in promoting a plan for the medical ccHtrol of a portion of the milk sup ply n cities in order to secure the highest possible grade of milk which is designed for clinical purposes, and is known in the United States as "cer- tiied milk" During the past IA years, following the example of the first commission, 27 medical commissions have been organized in the principal cities of the United States. A confer ence of these commissions was held in Atlantic City in June of this year, which was attended by f50 members who were physicians and professional sanitarians from universities, govern ment experlmen; stations and research laboratories. The conference was merged Into Il national organization. The purposes of this association are to federate ald bring into one com past body the medical milk commits sions of the, United States; to ex- change views and tn adopt uniform methods of procedure in the work of medical milk commissions; to fix chemical and meteorological stanl- ards: to determine the scope of mcdi- cal and veterinary inspections and to l foster and encourage the est2blisll- lment of medical milk commissions In other cities. The general improvement of the milk supply will have a wider and more far-reaching efeoct upon in fant mortality and milk infection Or milk epidemics than w9uld be accom- plished by adopting any local measure like compulsory pasteuriAa5lon, which puts the stamp of official approval upon unsafe milk, which cannot be made safe without sterilization
 American physicians recog'y~e the value of pasteurizatlon as applied in the home or in infants milk depots for infant feeding and this method for these purposes in indispensable at the present time. But in New York city the infants milk depots, of which there are three, conducted by philan- thropic and charitable agencies, feed only about 2,500 infants, or 1-4 per cent. of those under two years of age, the number of these being 205,- 900. Their work while in the highest degree commendable, cannot truth fully be said to have any considerable effect upon the city's death rate. But neither the medical commission nor the infants milk depots can supply the great mass of the people, Ordin- ary market milk purchased by fami- lies is, to a great degree, used for young children as well as for adults The people in American cities, as else- where, purchase the cheapest milk that is offered for sale in milk shops or groceries. They have no means of knowing it's origin or quality They cannot protect themselves. It, there fore, becomes the duty of city authori- ties to adopt effective measures to insure cleanliness and purity,
 It has seemed to those charged with the responsibility of public health, in- oluding most of the physicians and sanitarians, and to those engaged in the administration of agricultural af- fairs in the United States, that the natural and logical method Is to be- gin at the source of the milk supply.
 First: Care should be taken to pre- vent the sale of milk anywhere in country or city from cattle having tu- bereulosis or other disease.
 Second: Care should be taken to prevent persons having infectious or contagious diseases from being em- ployed or associated with those en- sarrd in the handling of milk. In New York weekly certificates of free dom from diseased employees are re- quired from dairies and creamerles.
 Third: Care should be taken to se- cure cleanliness in the persons and premises from which the milk is re- ceived. Cleanliness is in the thought before it is effective in the surround ings. Soap, water, scrubbing brush, sunshine and disinfectants are of no avail without the thought which eff. fectively employs them. Dairyman should be made to realize the import anee of neatness of detail before and after clean milk is put in clean con tainers, and that neatness of bottle dress and in the detail of delivery are quite as important as clean hands pure water supply, dirt-free barns disease free animals, sterile utensils or sterile containers.
 Fourth: In order to maintain its purity, milk should be promptly cool ed to a temperature of 10 degrees