Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-11
DISCRIMINATION NOT
ALWAYS SAFEGUARD
Health officer Says Process
Falls Far Short of What Is
Claimed for It.

P~asteuriZing milk only Kills tne
germs which it to sour and THESE
same germs kill the pathogenie, or
disease producing germs. according TO
a physician and health officer. who de-
flares hat more attention should De
paid to the milk supply.
The entire medical profession
would favor pasteurization or the milk
supply of the world II 1t had all the
advantages its advocates claim for IT.
said this man, but the physicians
and sanitrians who lave made care
full study of h milk problem agree
almost to a man that II would be q
great step backward to allow unclean.
unfit milk to be sold under the CLOAK
Of pasterurization.
"Pasteurizing milk is nothing more
Or less than scientifically scaiding
milk, and the need for so treating II
Is greater in some localities and sea-
son of the year than others. n pri-
! mary object being to keep ii sweet.
The one most dreaded disease which
COWS are supposed to transmit through
their milk is tuberculosis. Other cpl
demic diseases, such as typhoid and
scarlet fever and diphtherfa, spread
by milk because the milk has been
brought into contact directly or IN
directly with some person suffering
these diseases. If milk drawn from
a healthy COW was pasteurized by a
person suffering with diphtheria, ty-
phoid or scarlet fever, or was placed
into BEETLES which had been washed
with water which had come In contact
with such a person, this p~asteurized
milk could carry the disease just as
well, if not better, han raw, unpas-
teurized milk.
Safeguard From infection.
'JTnless milk be safe
guarded from infection from the mo-
ment ii is pasteurized until II is con-
sumed, TO prevent Its reinfectlon, II
has no advantage over fresh milk sim
ilarly ~safeguarded. In fact, IT has dis
advantages. If all the milk were pas
teurized, even before being brought
into the city, there would still be many
chances of it becoming infected by
persons who handle or bottle II, and
ii is for this reason that If pasteuriz-
alton is to be OF benefit the milk must
be heated just before it Is used. 1t is
onlv by scrupulous cleanliness and
careful inspection of those who handle
the milk that disease germs can De
kept out of it,
The doctor believes tha a great i'm
movement in the milk supply would re-
suit from inspection of it's sources and OF
those who handle 1t, as no amount OF
pasteurization will ever be able TO take
the place Of careful inspection of this
production of milk.
Has Many Disadvantages.
He declared that If a specimen or pas
teurized milk and another or the same
milk not pasteurized were set aside Tor
a few days in a warm place, the unpas-
teurized milk will rave soured, but VIII
still be fit for food, while the pasteurized
milk will be putrid, will have a disgusting
odor and will be wholly unfit for use.
1T is not because physicians are OPP
posed to what may seem a needed reform
that they do not rise as a unit for com
pulsorv pasteurization,'' continued the
official. but because they believe Its
disadvantages are greater than lts adVan-
tages, and because municipal ~pasteuriza-
ton would nullify all the excellent ef-
forts of the board of health to place with
in the reach of all a safe, clean, whole
some milk"
mo dairy should be located within any
kitchen. Mushroom, working or inhabited
room nor in close proximity to any place
of possible contamination" declared the
physician. Files, whose habits cause
them to visit places where filth a%bounds,
such as manure piles and other accumu-
lations of refuse, are known to carry not
only small particles of refuse or filth on
their bodies and legs, but also TO carry
other communicating matter, such as
! germs which cause disease.
Thus by excluding flies from you dairy
you remove a source of contamination
by dirt and disease germs, both of which
are liable to alter unnecessarily the quail
ity of your milk"