The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-15

from bacteria is a low temperature. This
will prevent bacterial growth. Therefore
the milk Immediately after being drawn,
should be kept cool in tightly closed YES
sells of glass. By thus treating the milk
Mr.. Gurler of De Kalb. H.. kept it in
sealed glass vessels for three weeks with
out sOuring-
Another method is to heat the milk
and thus kill the bacteria as well as pre-
vent further contamination In order to
steriliZe milk and kill all its bacteria il
must be heated to 2l2 degrees +. and kept
there for thirty minutes
"Pasteurization of milk consists in heat
ing it highly enough to destroy the ba-
cillus of tuberculosis. For this purpose a
heat of 30 degrees for twenty minutes.
or of 10 degrees for ten minutes. is suf-
ficient to destroy the germs of nearly all
the diseases communicated in milk. There
is one disadvantage in Pasteurization.
namely. that its efficacy as germ de-
stroyer may lead TO its use as a means of
covering up unclean methods of dairying.
The worst forms of uncleanliness with
milk occur with the mixers hands. the
exposure of milk TO foul odors. which it
quickly absorbs, and putting it into I'M
clean and open vessels
Diseases From Milk.
'''rhe most usual diseases that may he
transmitted in milk are tuberculosis.
diphtheria. typhoid and scarlet fever.
tuberculosis causes more deaths than
any other infectious disease. 1t afflicts
j
The latter have II in the same form as
man. though it has not yet been conclus-
| lively proved that bovine tuberculosis is
| produced by the same germ as that which
develops consumption in the human orr
ganism- Nevertheless ii is an almost es-
| tablished fact that infants may be in
| fected by the bovine tuberculosis. and IL
| therefore follows as a probability that
| adults, especially if weak and susceptible
may also take the malady in that way
/ In the east perhaps per cent of the ami
| mails have tuberculosis. In this state
| comparatively few. 4 very much smaller
! percentage, of dairv animals are affected
| Not every COW will contaminate her mill
when she has tuberculosis in some Other
part of the body But if the disease is in
/ the udder which is a somewhat common
condition. she will secrete milk contain
/ mated by the germs
When typhoid fever germs occur IL
milk they do not come from the COW
/ The germs are carried in the water drunk
/ by the animals. The typhoid germ
thrives in milk, as does also that of diph.
liberia.
The diphtheria organism comes. alsC
1 from man. 1t usually gains access to the
milk from the mixer. say through hi:
coughing. whereby some of the invisible
sputum spray may be carried into tbs
milk vessel. Like the typhoid organism
/ this one grows rapidly in milk. and MAY
infect those who drink it.
| The organism of scarlet fever has
never been isolated. 1t is thought. how
I ever, lAAdl II Se4AS d1CcSS u lilC
/ from some person infected with the dis
/ case
What Is Cleanliness.
"The matter of cleanliness is mucl
misunderstood. In the sanitary sense,
/ dish is clean when free from bacteria
| Hot water for Tinsing without the use o
dish rags or dish towels is the hes
method.
THE dish rag is an unnecessary evi
about milk dishes and utensils. A brusi
will do the work better. First wash thu
/ milk vessel in warm mot hot) water, L
| avoid cooking any of the milk adherin.
/ to its sides. Next rinse out with no
water. or sterilize with steam Then le
! the dishes dry naturally. Do not use
the dishes the bacteria abundant in tn
! cloth. BY using a rag. people undo som
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