The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-01
BOIL The MILK, SAYSDR. BIGGS
HEtITH hoard EXPERT FOR
PaSTEURIZAFEON
says There u No Other way 90 Ne On the
safe side. at Least In New 10rk
New Dasreveriea On Mtlk Infection
-ChrOnic ArrteFs &C Typhold Germs.

saw Nuefe " No WNneF way 10 ne On Nmr
safe side. ~ Least In New 10rk
New Dlsreveriea On MIN InGeetlOu
Chronic Carriers 90 Typhold Germs.
AZ a meeting Of the Board 81 Health
held yesterday the following resolution
was adopted:
1T il the sense Of this board that milk
used for drinking purposes should h
either properly pasteurized or boiled un.
lees IL IN what N technically known a.
certified, guaranteed or inspected milk. -
This resolution IL the outcome Of an
investigation conducted by DR.. Herman
NJ BigRs OF the Health Department by
order Of Health Commissioner Ernest !
Lederie. In his report DR.. Biges after
reviewing the citys system OF inspection
and supervision Of milk aays:
During the last year certain hitherto
unknown facts have come 10 light which
point Enthusiastically 20 the conclusion
that no system Of milk inspection In pos
sible in 80 large a milk shed a. thA {
which supplies New York that will render
entirely safe the ordinary commercial
milk
DR. Biggs says that the study OF typhoid
fever epldemics has shown that many
are due TO infected milk. The peculiar
character Of some OF these epidemics
10 that they did not originate with persons
recently sick. but with -chronic carriers
OF typhoid bacill; thar h, persons who
had suffered from the disease years before
and who were at the time Of the epidemic
perfectly well tine Case Was discoy-
erred. says DIR BiRgs. where an epidemic
was the result IN all probability OF the
-. A
carrier who had suffered from typhoid
fever foriy-six years ago and who had
during the intervening years probably
been a continuous distributor Of typhoid
bacill
such case DR.. Biggs Says. shows
supervision can exclude such sources
of infection from our milk supply
Scarlet fever and diphtherta. the report
says. ar~ also probably due VA many cases
to infection by milk.
-On farms supplying only certified or
guaranteed milk. FOR which a much higher
price IL reviewed. II would b. entirely
practicable To make a thorough eNRnllna-
ton OF all persons handling the milk and
any chronic bacillus carrier thus dis
covered could at once be- excluded from
contact with the milk the report says.
1T s.-ems imperative. therefore" says
DR.. Hggs. TO supplement the present
comprehensive scheme Of inspection by
pasteurl cation AT least Of all milk in
tended FOR consumption as beverage.
That which Is used in cooking need no;
he thus treated. In lieu of pasteuriza-
ton previous TO delivery Of the milk
to the consumer boiling by the house
holder would lie effective
The adoption Of the resolution does
not mean that the milk dealers are To he
compelled to pasieurize their milk II ~
Intended only To place the Beard Of Health
on record in the matter Of pasteurizAtion.
-Of course we cannot take any such
radical step ~ to order milk pasteuri1ed
now said Commissioner Lederle We
merely want TO call the attention Of the
public to the importance OF the subject.
The housekeeper can take her choice
~ to whether she will boil the milk OF
buy Il already boiled