The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-10-02
WASHINGTON NOTES
ON CURRENT INTEREST
American Academy Of Medicine Takes
Up the Study Of Infant Mortality
and VIII Try to Stop
Pate

and Wlh 1fy 10 otop
Rate.
Washington. Oct. l.--If the babies Of
this country don't get their rights, II
won't he because they lack friends
among the erown.rps One important
university Il 10 add a department Of
child study TO It's eodrses, and in con
nection with Il everything pertaining TO
the life Of d child viii BIZ collected and
collated, Another instance is afforded
hy the American Academy OF Medi
cine which has arranged for conference
Of physician sociologists and educators,
to be held at New Haven, Conn, Noyem.
Der LIE, on the prevention of infant
mortality At that meeting every az
pect Of the problem, from the medical,
philahthropic, educational and institu-
tional point Or view viii be gone into
By specialists who are deyoting their
lives 60 the study 81 the subject
According ID experts. the most inn
portant problem ia connection with in.
ant mortality Is feeding Time was when
milk was milk. and that was all there
was to IT, But that was before some
indisereet scientist had put a drop Of
the tactical fluid under his microscope and
then went AHEAD and lex The rest Of the
world know the secret OF what he found
there After that even the low brows
knew that things rarely are what they
seem. They learned that slsimmik not
only masquerades az cream, but that
nice, innocent looking white milk might
be a whole storage warehouse full Of
germs.
Nowadays every city taat lays any
claim to being civilized has milk cont
mission. Or a hoard Of health, that st-
temps * least to regulate the dairies Of
the community
One scientist recently took census
Of the germs ~ ono enhie centimeter
less than titimbsful 81 milk He found
that thefe were fewer bug" when the
mercury was low, and that great h0rdes
were present at higher temperatures In
one cable centimeter Of fresh milk he
counted 500 bacteria Twenty four hours
later. when Ne examined this same milk
which bad, IN the meantime, been kept
lat a temperature Of 50 degrees be found
10000 bacteria Another cubic cent?
meter Of milk was kept for twenty four
hours AZ the temperature q the room.
and yielded 100000 bacteria. Figure
out how many thimblefuls there IRE il
quart Of milk, and an idea may be
gained as to The number Of germs the
ultimate consumer gets
Several cities fix q standard Of the
number of germs permissible in milk
In New York. the milk commissioners
who supervise The milk intended for ba-
hips have placed the limit at 10000
Sinfe fifty per cent. Of alt the deaths
81 babies under one year Of age are dine
to gastro-enteric diseases. mostly attri-
butablh 10 impure milk, the question Of
4 STANDARD of purity 81 the food i con.
sdered most desirable Much has been
accomplished BIZ the establishment az
municipal milk depots ii several cities.
In Rochester n. " for instance, q re-
dnction ~ 20 per cent in infant deaths
was noted after supervision Of milk
This was achieved at an expenditure
which DR.. George w. Coler Of that city
estimates at only $500 month for the
milk depots and medical supervision
SOME time after October II the sher.
man antitrust law win Be put to tie
iinal test before the supreme court Of
the United states
Decision viii be made at the forthcom
iHg term Of the highest eourt ID the
famous tobacco trust eases. involving
the Interpretation of tie monopoly bust
ing tatnte. Practically, the life Of that
statute hangs on the word Of the court
Of Inst appeal Whether that tribunal
will construe the law broadly. and stand
by the opinion rendered By Judge La
combe Of the circuit court fer the south
ern district Of New York, bringing With
n its provisions ANY contract or com
bination whose direct effect il to prevent
the free play of composition and thus
deprive The country OF the services Of
any number Of independent dealers" on
read only the letter Of the law. the de-.
cison will have a farreaching effect
The tobacco cases are prosecution
bv the United States az the American
Tobacco company II involves the ques.
ton of whether that company and its
related concerns are combinations in re-.
stTairt OF trade. and whether. under the
sherman law. they should be put out Of
Interstate trade and their inter .eofpor-
ate relations terminated. II the supreme
court eonstrues The statute as did the
eircuit court, the government will have
won d great victory, and conversely.
| If the tobacco company wins It's appeal.
tho government win have lost a power
ful weapon against the predatory com.
hines
The October term Of the supreme court
will have other epoeh-makinR litigation
before IT The Standard Oh dissolution
case viii probably reach the court some
time during the year Il Is another Of
the trust busting type.
The life Of the interstate commerce
law. or the act to regulate commerce,
win he with the courts decision IN the
Southern Pacific case The direct ques-
lion Of tie right Of the Interstate COM
mercr commission to regulate and fix
aisead rates IS invoTved IN this case,
which was certified to lie supreme court
by the tirppit III northern California.
The Southern Pacific. and the Oregon