The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1907-07-05
SPREAD OF
TUBERCULoSIS.
Infected HIN Is the IcOnnen Case
Of Conaamptlon.

% COAsNmPtioA.
DR.. George Brown who has just re-
turned to Atlanta from the meeting of
the American Anti-Tubereulosis Lea
que talks interestingly Of the meeting
and its plans for fighting the spread Of
the great white plague. His interview
with the Atlanta Journal is given be-
low and will be read with wide inter-
est:
''Our meeting at Atlantic City dem
onstrated very clearly the necessity for
the American Anti-Tuberculosis Lea
que.
"The first thing that was made clear
by the paper Of DR.. Donohue, the new
president of the league, and by all who
followed him in the discussion, was
that our league is abreast with modern
knowledge on the subject Of tuberculo-
sis and realizes and accepts the fund
amental fact that the common cause
of consumption Is the infection Of hui
man beings with turcle bacilf convey
ed into the human stomach by milk.
Both DIR. Donohue and DR.. Schroe-
der, the Federal expert, showed con-
clusively that consumption must be
fought at the dairy farm and in the
milk supply; and Mr. Nathan Straus,
the New York philanthropist, showed
that the practical way in which to evict
tuberculosis from the milk supply is by
pasturiZing all milk that is under any
possible suspicion Of being infected.
this is the position which was taken
within the past month by commission
Of the foremost experts in the country
at Washington. , !.
from boiling The latter process un-
doubtedly causes some coagulation Of
the milk and may render IL less digesti-
BILE. But pasteurizatiOn consists in
heating the milk for twenty minutes 70
q temperature OF l61 degrees which Is
far below the cooking point, and,
therefore, It does not give the milk q
cooked taste and does not render Il any
less digestible than raw milk. In prov
ing all this, Mr.. Straus cited the fact
that he had fed 10, 600 children IN The
tenement districts Of New York with
pasteurzed milk with absolutely good
results in all these many cases.
ACTIVE WORK BEGUN.
Incidentally it was brought out at
the meeting that the National Society
for the Study Of Tuberculosis was con-
Quoting q secret and active campaign
against the American Anti-Tuborculo
sis League. Mr.. William Writ Mills,
of New York City, exposed the cause
tional society was dominated by men
who were interested in the certified
milk trust, and that IL was. perfectly
obvious that If the milk supplies were
made safe by pasteurization, there
would be a falling of in the demand
for certified milk, which now bringa
from 10 TO 80 cents a quart, netting
enormous profits 10 the trust.
II may sum up the results Of the
meeting by referring TO the resolutions
that we adopted, which were to the eff
feet that infected milk is the common
cause of consumption, that the dairy
herds should be tested with tuberculin
and all diseased cattle weeded out, and
the milk supplies should be generally
pasteurized so as TO kill the tubercle
bacilli.
"The members of the league were
imbued with a strong sense Of their
duty TO labor for the prevention Of tu-
berculosis and TO spread abroad the
knowledge of the fact that consump-
tion is a preVentable disease, and that
the bulk of the suffering now caused
by this plague can be removed by
making milk supplies safe.
when we were in New York we
saw nothing more interesting and more
hopeful than pasteuriZed milk stations
established and maintained in various
parts Of the city by Mr., StTaus. We
saw great ice boxes on wheels travel
ing about distributing the pasteurized
milk from the central laboratory TO the
various stations, and we felt that the
world at large and the people of New
York in particular ought TO appreciate
that it was pasteurized milk contained
in those ice boxes that was the practi-
cal answer TO the question, What
shall we do about tuberculosis ~
Jacksonville Metropolis
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