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line is the cooperative barber shop.
Stockholm has several such shops and
the experiment is watched with much
| interest.
Foreign Minister Lagerheim has
been appointed chairman of the
board of directors Of the new COM
mercial high school at Stockholm.
The king has given his assent to the
proposed regulations and the work
will now be ready to commence with
the opening Of school in the fall.
General Booth-Hellberg, the head of
the Swedish Salvation Army, died re-
Gently while returning from a trip to
Germany. His decease was the cause
Of general sorrow throughout the
country, as he was an able leader in
his work Of mercy, and his nobility of
character won him universal esteem.
A sign indicating the trend Of the
times is a recent proposal that all the
state railways of Sweden be changed
to electric railways. The change will
not come all at once, but a start will
be made on the line between Kiruma
and the Norwegian boundary, this line
running through the northern iron
ranges. With its splendid water pow
ers the Scandinavian countries must
Of necessity develop rapidly along
electrical lines in the near future.
The Swedish consul in New York
has riled up a good many Americans
by warning his countrymen not to
come to America, because Of hard
times all over the country. The IN
| tent of the warning is, of course, to
reduce the emigration as far as pos
sible. The statement as to hard times
is not true as to the whole country,
although local conditions may make
one section Of the country more pros
porous at a given time than another.
The consul will have occasion to re-
greet his language before he hears the
| last of it.
The International Anti-Tuberculosis
| Congress which has been in session
in Stockholm recently was well at
| tended, and the meetings were uni
| formly interesting and instructive.
The following dispatch concerning
the congress is of especial interest to
Americans: American investiga-
lions of the responsibility Of bovine
tuberculosis for the persistent spread
of the disease among human beings,
| particularly children, were officially
reported today to the Eighth Inter.
| national tuberculosis Conference, in
session here, by Nathan Straus. The
paper by the New York philanthropist
was presented by DR.. Arthur Ran
dolph Green, medical director of the
| Straus pasteurized milk work. and
one of the American delegates. 1t dis.
closed for the first time the over
whelming evidence gathered by the
American investigators to show the re.
sponsibility Of milk from tuberculous
| COWS for the infection of human be.
| ings with tuberculosis" After a care
full summing up of the evidence show
| ing that the largest percentage of
cases may be traced to milk, Mr..
| Straus continues: THE proof of the
| correctness of pasteurization of milk
| as a life-saying measure has been
rounded out by DR.. Joseph II. Kastle,
| chief of the division of chemistry of
the hygienic laboratory, who has
shown that the process, as recon-
mended by the United States public
health service, does not impair the
| ferments or engines contained in
| fresh milk, does not alter the chem
| ical composition of milk, does not
| lessen it's food value, either as to nu'
triton or digestibility, and does not
alter its taste or physical qualities.
This method of destroying the tuber
Gle bacilh in milk, so thoroughly
| proved and justified by science, has
| been practically indicated by my Is
years experience in supplying pas.
teurized milk for the babies in New
York and other cities in America and
| abroad. The result has been that
wherever pasteurization has been in.
troduced in cities having excessive in.
fantile death rates, the mortality
among the babies has been reduc ed
one-half. In view Of all these facts
that l have briefly summarized, the
| tuberculosis problem resolves itself
| largely into milk problem, and the
milk problem is not what to do, but
how to get it done, The prevention
of the infection Of healthy children
with tuberculous milk requires the
active and willing cooperation of the
dairyman, the milk dealer, the legis.
| lator, the health officer and the doc.
tor. That these men of diverse in.
terests may work together to enforce
| the pasteurization Of milk that is not
| from tuberculin tested herds requires
the earnest endeavors of the organ.
izations that have been formed to
| fight tuberculosis and the assistance
of the pulpit and the press to create
such wellinformed public sentiment
that 1t will be regarded as a crime to
feed child upon milk Of doubtful
origin unless it has been properly
| pasteurized."
The home for the aged which the
city of Stockholm is to build in com
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