Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-12
"STOP POISONING BABIES"
CRIES NATHAN STRAUSS, WANTS
FEDERAL REGULATION OF MILK
PhiIanthropist Would Have Remedy for a Crying Evil in .
Bureau OF Infant Hygiene to Be Established in Washing
ton and to Be a Part of the Government.

New York special: Nathan Strauss. the
famous philanthropis;. who. through his
milk dcpots. has dispensed since 1S9S. 49,
7t0.S 92 bottles Of milk and l0.0S9.674 glasses.
which has been accompanied by Il decrease
IN the summer infant mortality OF 1851
per thousand to ~. : per thousand for New
York City. when questioned regarding the
agitation now being carried on by the
committee of one hundred for a system of
federal health bureaus in Washington,
spoke decidedly.
Do you think, Mr.. Strauss, a bureau of
infant hygiene NJ Washington could ac-
complish much"
II certainly do. Never since the first
awakening of scientific men to the perils
VI raw milk has the outlook been so full
of encouragement as in the present year.
When i began 10 pasteurize milk for the
children of the tcncmcnts in New York
City in 1893 | was regarded as a harmless
enthusiast with a new fad. ! became an
Glarmist, in the estimation of the public
the next year. when l said: No plague
has caused so plentiful u harvest of death
as the contagion in every infants system
caused by the dele.erious bacteria of
milk. But even then l had scientific auth
GRITTY. I quoted Professor Sedgewick, who
said: Milk Is babies food. and they are
fed instead on u Misunderstanding liquid.
They cry for milk. and arc given typhoid
fever germs. and perhaps also the germs
of consumption IN September %. 1881. i
said: 4 hold that there is practically no
milk delivered for general consumption in
cities that is fit to be fed in its natural
state to young children.
NO plague by which 4 city was ever
Iavaged has yielded so plentiful a crop OF
deaths as that which is reaped every sum-
mer from the seeds of contagion deposited
in the infant system by millions Of noxi-
GUS bacteria developed in milk.
MANY thousands of infant lives are an
nually sacrificed by the neglect to supply.
for the nutriment OF children. milk that
has been subjected TO the process of pas
teurizat.on.
II have been repeating this warning ever
since 1 became personally acquainted with
the facts as to the milk supply. II AT
times 1 nave seemed to he talking to deaf
ears, 1 can no longer feel that my words
have been in vain, in view of the world
wide awaking to perils of raw milk. evil
denced by the appointment of the COM
mittce of one hundred"
You have just returned from abroad.
Mr.. Strauss. What is the scientific SEN
timent on the other side? Is it in SYM
lathy with the committee of one hundred?
Yes. indeed. In this country eminent
medical men. such as Professor Abraham
jacob. all these years have been sounding
the same warning, advising parents, if
they could not get pasteurized milk. to
boil it. so as to kill the disease germs.
They have been prophets far in advance
of their times. Eut in this year. 1907. the
world has ausht up with DIR. jacob. The
British royal commission has demonstrate
ed the commentaries of tuberculosis
from the COW to the human being. and has
expressed the opinion that milk from tu-
hnrpt11n11S COW ic f,,n rf;.f channel Of In
lection.
DIR. l.. &. Shredder. the American ex-
pert of the department of agriculture.
reached the same conclusions. and estab-
lished further: That the presence of tu-
bercle bacilli in milk is far more frequent
than has been supposed to be the case.
That even If the udder is healthy. q tuber-
culous COW may give infected milk. That
the presence of a single tuberculous COW
In a herd may be responsible for the in
faction Of the milk of healthy animals
Are the Washington scientists active.
Mr.. Strauss. in this campaign?
Federal departments at Washington
were crippled by the prevalence of typhoid
fever among the employees. and the public
health service, under Surgeon General
Walter Wyman. traced more thar 10 pei
cent. of the cases to the milk supply
These facts led to a thorough study of the
milk problem by II conference of SOM
twenty of the foremost experts of the
country, and they fatty declared that th'
public health required the pasteuriZatior
OF milk. The department of agriculture
adopted and promulgated the report OF
this conference. issuing their
tons in circular No. III. of the bureau OF
animal industry. and their complete re-
port in circular No. ia. No more impor-
tant documents concerning the public
hoo1fh have aynp hnar tsS,tsA1 and fInft
contents ought to be made familiar Il
every mar who has anything to do will
the milk business, either as producer oil
distributor, and to every commissioner OF
health or of agriculture.
CLOSELY following tins stand taken b,
the United States government. came tn,
action of two international bodies. tt
International Congress DIES Gouttes d,
Lait, assembled at Brussels. declared II
favor of the DISCRIMINATION or s~teriliza
ton of milk as essential to the health o
babies. The International Medical con
gress. at Paris, decided that tuberculosis
was conveyed to the digestive tracts espe
cialiy by milk and recommended boifinJ
to kill the germs" -
Has President Roosevelt favored thi
campaign?
Eyes. in a most important way. At tn,
direction of the president of the Unitet
oldtes, the puplIc nealtn service, a bureau
of the treasury department., has been in
structed to prepare plans to give practica
efficacy to this reform in the light of tn
knowledge and experience that has beel
thrown upon the milk problem. To illus
trate hat this work is in competent hunds
one need but mention that DR.. Waite
Wyman is the surgeon general and tina
Professor NJ. j. Rosenau is the director o
the hygienic laboratory. at the head of
skilled CORPS of INVESTIGATORS ~,
I'm no sphere can more effective worl
for the federal regulation of the publ
health be done, the cause for which TIL