Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-22
MILW AUKEE'S PURE MILK
New York and Chicago Purity
Campaign Invited in
Milwaukee
Result of Pasteurization
What is now being demanded in
other states. has been successfully
done here for ten years.


At present. and for some time past,
the cities of New York and Chicago
have been in the throes of serious
agitation on the question of impure
milk. In both these cities, as result
of the Investigations that have been,
and are being made, better things are
promised for the babies. That the
baby should have special bottled
milk is not denied anywhere, and al
ready as result of the crusade, statis-
ties are showing a reduction of the
infant mortality.
The milk tests that have been made
in Chicago by Professor d. Hector
Trow bridge have shown a number of
curious things. Professor Trowbridge
who holds the chair of Chemistry and
is the head of the Food Chemistry
Division Of the Louis institute, saws
that the condition of the milk business
in Chicago is such as to demand inn
mediate attention. OF the eighty SAM
Piles submitted to him, sixty-three were
dirty, some much dfrtier than others.
Most of the dirt found in the milk was
stable otfal. The presence of dirt of
the kind described serves to increase
the danger of spreading eontagion.
Professor Trowbridge also makes
the statement that in other states
where tests have been made, a greater
percentage of dirt has been disclosed
than is shown by the Chicago analyses.
The milk situation in New York,
and the efforts of Mr.. Nathan Straus,
who introduced pasteurization of milk
into America, are almost too well
known to require comment. Mr.. Straus
is now engaged in directing pure
milk crusade in Europe, and convinc-
ing the sanitary experts of that CONT
nent that the lives of thousands of
children can be saved yearly by feed
ing them on pasteurized, instead of
raw milk.
Again, in Washington, Surgeon GEN
eral Walter WYman of the Public Ser
vice. in a report submitted to MIR.
Cortelyou on milk in its relation TO
public health, calls attention to the
proof that five hundred epidemics of
typhoid, scarlet fever and diphtheria
were caused by infected milk He also
says that probably the most important
disease in COWS is tuberculosis and it
is the most prevalent. lie insists that
all milk should come from tubereulin-
tested cattle or should be subject to
pasteurizatioa. The Surgeon-Generll
also writes, DIR. Trasl gives figures to
show the amazing rapidity with which
typhoid and diphtheria germs iucrease
in milk. Seventy-eight typhoid germs
increased in seven days to four hundred
and forty million. In the same time
thirty-nine diphtheria germs increased
To ten million. Considering the tremen-
duous multiplication which the baeil-
lus can undergo within twenty-four
hours in milk it is easy to see how one
bottle of infected milk taken into u
dairy and there mixed with
large volume of milk, NAV
be responsible for exposing
to infection several thousand persons"
lie cites the case of Palo Alto, Califor-
mia, in 1903, where he says that of nine
hundred persons exposed to the milk
of one dealer, two hundred and thirtv-
two contracted typhoid
After looking at this.truly terrifying
and amazing state of affairs existing in
other cities throughout the United
States, it is relief to come back to
Milwaukee, and observe the methods OF
the Gridely Dairy Co. which stand out
pre-eminent and command special reco-
gnition. Every pint of milk delivered
by the Gridley Dairy Co. is tholo 10 blg
pasteurized. This process of pasteuriza
ton is the same that Mr.. Nathan
STRAINS is now working SO earnestly to
introduce into Europe, and it is the
most perfect method known to modern
scientific research of DISCRIMINATING
bacilli in milk. Pasteurizaton DESTROYS
over 81 per cent of the germ life in
milk and renders 1t as pure as it can
possibly be made without materially
changing the flavor.
pasteurization when first Introduced
some twelve yeaes ago, consisted in
heating the milk up to les degrees and
keeping it Mt this temperature for some
fifteen minutes; but the results while
satisfactory SO far as the destruction of
bacilli was concerned, materially alter
ed the flavor of the milk, giving it a
cooked taste. Modern methods have
resulted in pasteurizing the milk with
out in any way changing itsp alatability
Where earlier methods also DESTROYED
the cream line, the modern process
does not affect ii to any perceptihle
degree. All the milk delivered bv the
Gridely Dairy Co, is, and has been for
the last ten years, thoroughly pasteur-
lied
1t is not amazing that some of the
Urge milk companies, in Chicago, New
YorK, and other cities, iools upon pas
teurization " III diSfavor The volumn
of their business is SO great that to put
in pasteuriziug plant of sufficient
capacity would entail an expenditure
of hundreds of thousands OF dollars.
Several small comnanies in other cities
however, are putting in paSteurizing
now while their business is small, in
order that they may grow with their
business as the Gridley people of Mil
waulxee have done.
The efforts of the Gridley Dairy Co.
to provide their custumers with mill;
that is pasteurized and absolutely pa, Z
have left no cause To fear for the health
of the population of Milwaukee,. In
fact the reports of the infant mortality
in Milwaukee speak for themselve,
aud ARE, indeed IL standing testimonial
to the labors of the Gridisy Dairy Co