The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-16

cocci--all these minutes Organisms OF
microbes, thrive and flourish IN milk
MIX IL never free from them. There
are good bacteria. harmless baeteria.
and harmful bacteria, and 1t is or
course. these last than are TO be feared
Have You ever heard OF eptdemicn
Of typhoid, scarlet fever. or diphkheria
that were traceahIe TO the milk sun-
ply? All these diseases can be com
muiicated through milk. Loathsonie
as they may be there IL none morn
terrible than that scourga, OF humanity
known as consumption or tuberculosis.
"Fourten per cent OF the total deaths
registered In America are from this
cause. II has sometimes been said
that consumption. as met with IN cows
(bovine tuberculosis). is a distinct
disease which cannot be transmitted t.
human beings. This comforting belief
has had 10 be given up altogether.
MIX the source.
ANY doubt that remained on this
subject was dispelled by the nndings
OF Royal Commission on Tuberculosis
In It's first and second interim reports
cday. 1904. and January, IBa71. The
disease is essentially the same. IN
whatever animal il is observed. M@
is the greatest and most widely diff
fused source OF danger, There aFe
notices In omnibuses reminding people
of the danger of spreading conaump-
tion by the comparatively rare habff
Of splitting. while all the time we may
be pouring the germs of consumption
down our own threats along with the
milk we drink.
Great is the danger, the means to
avoid 1t are simple Boil all the milk
you use. and protect II afterward. and
you reduce all risk from this sources
to a minimum. The disease germs airs
killed b. the high temperature reached
- a a !. A. -
has long been known and there are
people who conscientiously boil all
their milk Some careful mothers 1t
least make a point OF boiling the milk
for the babies. though not for them
selves or their husbands. But the ma
jority are either ignorant o. the need
or too lazy or indifferent to take the
small amount OF trouble.
OBJECTIONS, however. have been
made to the practice OF boiling milk.
These objections apply equally to the
so-caIled 'sterilized milk supplied ~
certain companies. II Is known that.F
after boiling. the milk is no longer
so digestible by infants. Constipation
and Indigestion may result from Il.
Personally. believe that these disad-
yantages and risks have all been over
rated: but l will leave them nncon
tradlcted because. there is another ana
better way OF killing the disease germs
In milk.
Boiling Not Necessary.
at is NOT necessary to boil the naiiixs
II is enough II the milk Is heated TO
a temperature considerably below the
boiling point and kept at that heat
for certain time. Such milk is said
20 be 'pasteurized. Louis Pasteur, the
great French chemist and founder Of
modern bateriology. having introduced
the systen1--165 degrees Fsrenheit for
twenty-five minutes. This process has
little. If any effect on the digestibii-
ity OF the milk. Color and flavor are
preserved
II claim to know what I am talk
ing about. for II Is now sixteen years
ago since / founded the FIRST Of my
milk depots in New York. So am
not merely a man with a theory. 0f
course, followed the Lead Of the men
of theory--the doctors--and they have
followed my practical experiment with
a critical. and in the end approving
that infant mortality in the districts
supplied from the milk depots have de-
creased In one particular public in
atitution (Randall's Isiand(, the death
rate OF the children was reduced from
a per cent TO 1876 per cent BY the tn-
PRODUCTION of my pasteurizing appar-
atus.
prevention is better than cure. and
one way to check the spread Of con-
sumption is TO pasteurize the milk
Private indivlduals charity organiza-
lions. and municipalities can open milk
dispensaries or milk kitchens for tho
pasteurization OF milk on a large
scale. such milk to be obtalnabie al
cost price or less than cose price,