The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-28
IMPURE MILK
PUBLIC MENACE
Dr. KELLOGG OF STATE BOARD
CITES THE LARGE IN.
FAINT MORTALITY
AS EVIDENCE.

Dr j. H. Kellogg, Of Battle Creek.
Governor Osborns appointee on the
state board Of health, has promisad
TO make fight especially along the
INES of purer foods for babies. He
is an enthusiastic believer in the bill
providing for commissions i'm every
lccaiity to pass upon So called certi
hed milk. DR.. Kellogg says:
1000 Die Every Year.
Seven thousand babies less than 10
months old, die every year in Michi-
gan This means an annual loss of NOT
less than $S5,OOOOOO TO say nothing
OF the trouble and grief and distress
occasioned by their deaths. Three
quarters of these deaths are due IN nm
clean cows milk. Bunge. one of tbo
worlds greatest authorities on diete-
TICS has shown that the mortality of
bottle-fed babies is seven times as
great as that of infants nursed bv
mothers. II is conservative estimate
mat 5000 babies die annually i'm Mich
igan from the direct effect of unclean
cows milk.
1T is simply the typhoid germs and
the germs Of tuberculosis which do the
mischief. Far more important as
cause of infant mortality are the ordi-
nary germs of putrefaeticn introduced
into the milk from stable and barn
yard filth and through the use of I'M
clean vessels. Those germs set M
i'm the infants intestines
and result in cholera infantum. cholera
morbus, diarrhoea, various wasting d.
seases such as scurvy. ricketts,. mall
nutrition. Suffering from this cause is /,
beyond estimate. Ordinary cows milk
Is perhaps the hlthiest thing served
that appears upon the table. 1t moi
Infrequently contains as many as So
100000 germs to the teaspoonful Or
linarily milk contains four or five
million germs. And the mischief does ]
not stop with infancy. Older children {
IRE made sick and the acute intestinal +;
troubles set up i'm childhood generally
continue through life and result in
8rights disease, tuberculosis. chronic
rheumatism and a great variety Of
chronic maladies
Mortality Doubles.
Chronic disease has doubled its NOR
atty within 80 years. Bright's di-
ease has more than doubled. Dseas-
IS Of the arteries have increased 800
'er cent in the last ten years. Can
er has increased 500 per cent i'm go
ears Recent investigation has
'roved that putrefaction of animal
ubstance produces poison which is
apable of producing cancer. Or. Ross
I Liverpool induced cancer by the APP
LEGATION of cholin. putrefaction pois-
n, to raw surface. Choln, accord
lg to Dr. Ross is produced by the
ay bacillus which is found i'm vast
umbers in impure milk, and may ev-
n be present in butter prepared from ,
npure milk. The proportion of germs {
! butter and cream is even greater I
IAN in milk and it is well within the :
ealm of possibility that the great a
lcrease Of chronic disease is due in n
rye measure to impure milk. .
Milk May Be Clean. y y
"That milk may be made clean is
'oved by the fact that at the present G.
me there are i'm the United States h
or so volunteer milk commissions 1,
medical men. who have associated as
emselves together for the purpose =
securing pure milk supply for their &c
Itients and others who desire to avail W. ",
emselves OF Il. Certified milk is not ]
rmitted to contain more than 10000 N,
rms To the cubic centimeter, or
out 10000 to the spoonful which is h.
to 1000 times less than the num- tr'
r of germs found in ordinary O,
Tx. The best grades of certified milk Bt
ntain only about onc-quartcr the am
ount permitted. Oh
The state ought to provide clean Sol Sol
Tx for its children. but since ii does