New-York tribune., 1908-07-25
MILK PASTEURIZATION.
Nathan StrauS Tells Heidelberg
Students U1hy It Is Needed.

Heidelberg. July A-At the invitation Of Profess
sor Eberhard Gothein. Nathan Straus, of New
York. delivered an address to-day before the
students in the political economy class of the Uni
versity of Heidelberg on Milk Pasteurization- In
part. he said:
We have traced to the use Of cows milk the
excessive mortality of infants In their first year.
sumption 1t being altogether Impossible to give
the use of cows milk in the nursery and most
undeslra5e to banish such 1000 from tne @ auuiL
dietary, it becomes imperative to seek for means
to render the milk harmless ..-..,,,.,a
A large proportion of the tubercuouS
They are often kept in stalls that give every en-
company with other tubercuioUs animals, and the
amount of light and air available is often deficient
Rough walls, damp floors, thatched roofs and IN
necessary lumber all furnish lurking places for
After the milk is drawn the chief thing is to
protect IT from dust and keep It at low TEN m
crease slowly possible The more shaking
the milk receives the the clusters OF bacteria
multiply All the mixing and pouring from one re-
ceptacle to another that goes on sonetlnee sonnet IN IN
the consumer, is injurious. 49,.
In the absence of proper precautions milk that
on leaving the contained relatively few bac-
terra may reaching its destination some houfs
terra present in milk may be of perfectly in
nocuous kind but it is obvious that if the milk
ever comes in contact with the germs of disease
these, too. will be taken up and handed on to the
unfortunate consumer Of the milk Under present
conditions there are plenty OF chances for good
milk to become infected. ,,, -. .. -
courage mothers to nurse their babies wher-
ever It is physically possible Hence hear Of
palites for every child raised entirely without the
stance, subsidies breast feeding, at least on
Heroic measures have also been proposed. ana
partly begun with regard to the cows. small
country ike Denmark has already succeeded in
pian recommended by Professor Bang But now
and always there would be room 6qT the mInlSiI SI
dairy farms. where the very best milk should oe
obtained under ideal conditions of cleanliness Tor
use in municipal hospitals and other institutions
and for distribution at low price TO the inIahs
children Of the poorer classes This is already be
ing done at some places in England. l. IoT my
he milk supply will be pasteurized free of chargs
BY the town. Just at present the town under
takes the supply of gas water electricity ana
In order to get milk with bacterial content Of
BEN IeIltg M , tba, ~ o6o which is the standard for
certified milk at Rochester. \. Y, you must be
prapared to devote money and careful attention 10
II H. nrohIeTn The animals must be kept scrupu
1 me - Iao ,1CT7nIate asensis must be aimed
in milking The cows tails for lnsIsCe mus t1{f
cIeansed with antiseptic wash Before mllKin33 l3
begins II ought to be possible TO pass white Klo
glove the cows udder without stalnllS IT. @ nc
mixers hands should be washed WIN speGId spd Pr
cautions before milking each COW ang specaL nlllk ]
Ing suits snoHld be m The mix Should be filed
into bottles and sealed for delivery as soon as PCS
EMPLOYED must be thoroughly cleaned and sterilised
before the milk comes INTO mem ] SS MAI ali
this needs conscientious work Peoplsii, rt4 ont
+bsn yya should indeed have ideal milk supply.
on an experimental scale, We NAV say they nave nave
been carried already, so that OF the poSsoitM1s ~
of the reforms there can be no doubt But M Ire
prfca Of such milk Is prOhibitIve Tor al but Nrv
rich ~ pfennigs per liter would be cheap for such
milk under present conditions BY munlclpaI elteI
prsl and wholesale operations the price couleI no
Doubt be somewhat reduced. but IT Is pretty cIeai
that il would always remain higher than the pres
Ar4 rrice of ordinary milk. The reform can Lly
come gradually: there must be Improvement oeIore
+bars car ba Derfection. That being 50. there is
nohne for it but for the present at least TO ADOPT
a supplementary policy Of compromise tempoLlI-
ing r0f-v which even extreme ldealst IKE ,E, N1I
FShrfng is forced reluctantly to approve 1h'S
policy in a word. is pasteur1zatlon -
Pasteurization, named after the IouIlugL
bacterfoogy Louis Pasteur consists IN nlalIa@Insls @
+be milk qt a temperature OF 60 70 10 degrees
ca1tigrade (140 to 167 degrees FshrenhelO LOT
twenty minutes in closed vessel and then cpoHnS
~ randy You observe that the milk Is no. 9'.u
a,d nor stArtifzed The flavor Is not inTaIeIl tl
food value remains the same and YET tht at0-s s
whose presence is moN 70 be feared IN nIAE.Ht,7
germs Of tuberculosis. typhoid scarlet Ie'e'' t
fharia dvsentery. cholera. etc.