The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-06-10
INSTRUMENTATION not
ALWAYS SAFEGUARD
Health officer Says Process
Falls Far Short Of What Is
Claimed for II.

Pasteurizing milk only kills tho
germs which cause 1t to sour n these
same germs kill the p~athogenie, or
disease producing germs, according to
I physician ard health officer. who de-
tlares that more attention should be
paid to the milk supply.
The entire medical profession
would favor pasteurization of the milk
supply of the world II 1t had all the
advantages it's advocates claim for It,"
said this man. "but the physicians
and sanitrians who have made care
full study OF the milk problem agree
almost to a man that 1t would be a
great step backward to allow unclean.
unfit milk to be sold under the cloak
pf pasterurization.
"Pasteurizing milk Is nothing more
or less than scientifically scalding
milk, and the need for SO treating 1t
ts greater in some localities and sea-
sons of the year h others, the pri-
mary object being to keep it sweet.
The one most dreaded disease which
milk Is tuberculosis. Other cpl
aemic diseases. such as typhoid and
scarlet fever and diphtheria, spread
by milk because the milk has been
brought into contact directly or in
directly with some person suffering
these diseases. II milk drawn from
p healthy COW was p~asteurized by a
person suffering with diphtherfa. ty-
phoid or scarlet fever, or was placed
Into bottles which a been washed
with water which had come in contact
with such a person., this p~asteurized
well. il not better, than raw, unpas
milk.
Safeguard From Infection.
Unless p~asteurized milk be safe
guarded from infection from the mo-
ment it is ~pasteurized until it is con-
sumed, to prevent it's reinfection, 1t
has no advantage over fresh milk sim
advantages. II all the milk We're pas
teurized, eve before being brought
into the city, there would still be many
chances of 1t becoming infected by
who handle or bottle 1t, and
1t is for this reason that II pasteuriz-
alton is to be OF benefit the milk must
be heated just before it is used. 1t is
only by scrupulous cleanliness and
careful inspection of those who handle
the milk that disease germs can be
kept out of it."
provement IN the milk supply would re-
suit from inspection of its 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 II a specimen OF pas
teurized milk and another Of the Same
milk not pasteurized were set aside for
a few days In a arm place, the unpas-
teurized milk will have soured, but will
still be fit for food, while the pasteurized
milk will be putrid- viii have a disgusting
and will be wholly. unfit for use.
"It is not because physicians are OPP
posed to what may seem a needed reform
that they do not rise as a unit for COM
pulsory paste%urization.'. continued the
official, but because they believe it's
disadvantages are greater than it's advan-
tages and because municipal pasteuriza-
ton would nullify all the excellent eff
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 washroom, 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 abounds.
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 your 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"