East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-06

While the subject OF a purer milk
supply for Pendleton is being dis.
cussed, the following timely and ex-
cellent article from the Stellar Ray,
New Thought magazine of Detroit,
Mich, will be read with intense in
terest by readers Of the East Orego-
nian. The Stellar Ray says:
When 1t is considered that $4,000
children die annually in the United
States from germ-infected milk alone
the importance Of absolutely pure
milk is readily appreciated. Ignor.
ance, that great crime Of the ages,
is the sole reason for the death Of
these children.
For there is none who would destroy
if the knowledge of how to save were
at his command. When one speaks
Of pure milk he Immediately thinks
of milk that has been inspected by
the city or county milk inspectors or
health officers and pronounced "fit to
drink"
This, however, is not pure milk-it
is only "near-pure" milk, and is still
in an unfit condition for the consump-
tion of small children and babies,
Milk to be in absolutely pure con-
dition, robbed of its death-germs,
must undergo an operation of pasteur-
ization. Pasteurization is a simple
process, which should be known by
every mother. 1t requires no chemi-
Gals and it means simply the appli-
cation of heat TO the milk.
1t is a process that every mother
should learn, and the directions for
which she should keep on hand in
the house with far greater care and
concern than her household recipe
book No woman can keep house
without this book, which means
frosted cakes and currant jelly, but
the recipe for pasteurization of milk
means the lives of the children and
it should be regarded as one of the
households greatest treasures. We
shall give this recipe and then tell you
a little of the Importance of using it,
The milk should be furnished to in
fants in nursing bottles after heating
it in the bottle in boiling water to a
temperature of 165 degrees Fab, for
at least 20 minutes. The nursing bot
tie should be clean. The milk is then
introduced into the bottle, which is
wrapped in a cloth and placed in a
kettle or other vessel containing wa
ter reaching almost to the neck of
the bottle. The cork should be re-
moved from the bottle and placed in
the water. The water is brought to
a boil the flame then lowered to keep
water near to boiling (but not boil
ing) for from 20 to 20 minutes. The
flame is then eXtinguished, the cork
inserted into the bottle and the whole
allowed to cool to the temperature of
the room. II is then ready for the
child
The so-called commercial pasteur-
ization of milk is almost worthless.
OF course milk inspection in most of
the large cities does a great deal of
good, but it is safe estimate that it
decreases the death rate of children
not more than 25 per cent. Nathan
Strauss of New York took up the
task of real milk pasteurization 15I
years ago. AS measure of his Won
derful reward statistics show that last
year alone his method saved the lives
of 1000 children. In st. Louis, Chi
cago, Boston and Kansas City his
plans were followed with great sue
cess
1t is somewhat astounding to know
that while children under five years
of age constitute but 1S per cent of
the population of the United States
they furnish from 80 to SO per cent
of the deaths.
With such advancement as we are
making today in every department of
life's welfare, it would seem that
greater attention should be paid to
the saving of babies. Ten per cent
in deaths of children should be an
enormous price. TIL altar of ignor-
ance and negligence demands a SAT-
rifice, but let not the offering be so