The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-24
EXPERT TALKS
 TO DAIRYMEN' Physicians Should Agi-
 tate Pure Milk. PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS Milk Supply Important Economic
 Problem. George NJ. whitaker, Government In- spector. Says Dairies of Mont- somery are Not Worse Than
 In Many Other Cities.

Georga M Whitaker, who has charge of the market milk investigations all over the country in the Governmeat nnnara ment of Agriculture, gave an mstruc. tive and entertaining address last evening before the members or the some of the dairymen of the city. and some of the Aldermen of the City Council. on all the phases of the milk
 In the course of his address. Mir. Whitaker showed how the milk sup ply was one of the most important economic problems in the world today and he pointed out how tne ,, m,in naa.su}e sup hot only from uncleafr cows and filthy stables, but also from the way the milk was handled afterwards in the utensils. He declared that there was an agitation all over the country Tor purer milk. and that the physicians In every community could do great service, by a little keener interest in the public sentiment for purer milk.
 Eeginning his remarks. MT. whitaker stated that the physicians knew the value of impure milk and nsa,,n that all cer- er- ried by public sentiment so that 1t was the physician's duty to advocate the public sentiment for pure milk, espe- said that there was always some fric- ton between the dairymen and the health officers. but that the dairymen did not realize the danger In impure physicians aid the health officers in ex- piaining these elementary truths to them.
 ciyiiization and education has ad- vanced. there has been constantly ln- creasing demand for cleaner and purer milk, and the fundamental reason TOT all this agitation in the milk supply has been due to the increase in the science of bacteriology. The word sclean' has taken on an entirely dif- fsrent meaning. and half half the the gsrHnsn gesGple m do not know what the word clean means. The agitation for purer milk means the saving of life.
 Besides the .Sn eontaminat10Sn aarms nS banteria, there are the germs of tuberculosis. These germs come from nth m the stables and in the handling rooms. The milk there fore, Is not only dan Ferous to babies. but to adult inva-
 MT. Whitaker next stated that the problem was how to Keep the n sesns eras nlace, and then how to keep them from naultiplying. He showed those pres ent d number of charts. which dis played pure and impure conoitions Clean and dirty cows, and sanitary and
 One chart was a photograph of bottom of a milk bottle showing the aediment, which, according to MT. Whi- taker. was only the insoluble part or the dirt in the-milk. but the bacteria was there, just the same. Another chart showed how the bacteria got in the milk through the air from the dirt and dust a filthy stable.
 Concluding Mir. Whitaker said that the regulation of the milk supply in a community was not only by ordinances but also by agitation and public senti- snent for sanitary milk with competent men as health officers to enforce the laws for a good condition of public health, that a low death rate was one of the valuable assets a city could have.
 When asked yesterday afternoon con- corning the milk supply here in Mont gomery Mir. Whitaker said that he had not been in town long enough to speak positively from the standpoint of actual statistics. But he said assuming that this city was like others places, e great amount of cholera infantum ex- 5sted in the summer time, largely due fo bad milk. This could be prevented