New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-13
ETYpH0ID Turks IN 2[ILK
s STARTS lFANY EPEDENTCS.
Physicians Tell Of Various CaaSe5 o.
CORtGgi0n.

CORtagi0n.
~ the academy o. Medicine No. Il West
Add street. isst night, Dr. Charles Harrington,
tie secretary q the Massachusetts State Board
or Eesirh assured a large and appreciatlve
audience that milk was not the enly conveyor
AZ Infection. but that also practically every
fco1 supply that sustains life contributed TO
devastating epidemics. Or. Hauington's paTer
mas Ga MILK a Carrier Of Infection bat
before ne ended he had transferred tho respon-
sibiltty for contagion TO the individual, 70 the
fooc the individual might he handling and u
ihe consumer who conveys the food Tor con-
sumption There We're present at tie academy
t;le. usual alignment % forces for and against
Dissemination, physicians who are members ana
seekers after information. DR.. Green repre-
genting Nathan Straus: William II. Allen. 81
the New York MIX Committee; john f. Sayles,
the secretary Of the same committee, and Or.
Haven Emerson, of the executive committee Of
the same body. were among those in the au-
dience.
The presiding officer. DR.. J. 8. Billings jr.,
opened the milk symposium by calling on DR..
Harrington. The latter said that Of eighteen
typhoid epdemics IN Massachusetts in The
oaast TWO years three were due TO infected water
supply and fourteen 20 The milk The other cpl
sdemic could not be traced. But DR.. Harrington
said that isolated cases of scarlet fever, diph-
siberia. typhoid, etc, had been traced TO other
causes. The main disease in children 10 be
feared from impure milk supply was cholera IN
ssntum during the summer months. he then
showed how lack of personal cleanliness and
other foods might cause disease that was often
attributed 10 the milk water.
DR.. Harrington said that his Investigations
? led him to believe that in 4 per cent OF the
typhoid cases reported the disease was chronic.
He knew OF one person who had the disease for
oSorty years. During all that time he was con-
fetant source OF infection Farmers, who had
-fyphoid wou.3 infect the milk they were ship
oplag to the cities: others With other infectious
diseases contaminated the supply. Much was
= blamed upon the patient COW for which the ant
mai was not responsible. Early this year an
epidemic OF scarlet fever in Boston and nearby
cities was traced 10 milk faster who tested
the milk before distribution. DR.. Harrington
said that the place of delivery of milk was as
much a source of infection the source Of sup
ply. His remedy was in the rcusing of the pur-
chasing public 10 the demands Of the situation
he said they could control II. Then with state
and municipal regulation Of the diaries tbs
problem would be solved
DR.. Rowland C. freeman. of this city, had
his subject "Pasteurization, the Advantages and
Disadvantages TO the Consumer" He did not
have single good word 10 say in favor of what
IS known as commercial pasteurizatlon. that IS
the heating of milk TO about los degrees for
\ about thirty seconds. He believed that its use
Il would encourage the attempt 10 bring into the
city dirty impure milk. This method of pas
teurization would be used TO prevent souring
He quoted the experience Of Rochester in favor
OF pure raw milk. In Rochester both systems
were used. pasteurizati0n and inspection, and
the latter was selected as being the more health
ful DR.. Freeman believed that the Board Of
Health should have the power to compel the
true pasteurization of all doubtful milk.
l1ar- ssf Tpr.vl.a 4 nan
on the advantages an1 disadvantages of pas
teuTization 10 a municipality, IN which he clearly
upheld the Rochester IheoTF, based upon practi-
cal experience in favor of control Of the source
81 me MIX l,,S.llanely, Inspection He had
srieA 'iS-o'i - A4i=
dalrles He cited i've objections 10 pas;euriza
ton OF the whole supply. They were infected
bottles, less care on the part Of milkmen. inter
increase OF intestinal trouble among children
ana more care necessary after pasteurization
DR.. Rohys remedy. summed ur. was steri}I
cation O: bottles and cars. disinec az strain
ing cloths ard reduction in the size Of cans to
twenty quarts.
DR.. William r. Park Of the Heath Depart
fpelI Followed with a paper Current Mis-
supply Of New York City He HAD thu field an
70 himself HIS paper was not exactly a blow
az pasteuriEauon as such. but he showed that
there WIS much useless alarm regarding the
contagious possibilities Of the milk supply
ihe statement that pasteurization would re-
auce contagion was false, he said Few cases
OF scarlet fever came from the milk supply In +
winter it was seldom that diphtheria came from
mat source And DIR. Park insisted that tubercle
lacllh ala not grow in milk They might pass
tnto II. There was no proof that most cases came
nom milk The disease went from man 10 A,
snan, IRON cass 10 case. Typhoid would grow
N milk but would grow more rapidly in water
lie favored inspection bil+ said that he dair,, !
ssrnlers should get every consideration possible
commercial pasteUriZatton. DR. Park said was
NOT eueh an inefficient method of cripDlng
germs. He had fourd that II killed MANI
-amed some, retarded others
Then Followed a general discussion. in which /
19R Holt explained things in his former talk and
Or Harrington got uP II clarity some OF his
tOrTner statements II was general regret that !
-aDr. Thomas Darlington, OF the Health Depart /
Enent. was not present.