The Detroit times., 1911-08-30

for children Is one or vitai impor1ahOo
IN the home, for milk, the most per.
feet food when In It's pure and Norman
state, frequently becomes. through IN
sanitary handling a medium Tor the
OF Infectious diseases.
MIX Is the one article OF food In whicn
disease may Turk without giving sus-
picion In taste, smell, or appearance.
Dairy sanitation, although or vital I'M
portance. and although it's practice Is
Increasing, is still too lightly regarded
by many who handle milk for human
consumption. Where the milk supply
Is handled under average existing CON
ditions, coming from thousand diner
ent farms, the subject OF dairy SAM
tation from the standpoint or the con-
sumer Is a source OF continual Anxiety
and even where the business is prop
erly conducted constant vigilence ID re-
CURED on the part OF the distributor
Judging from existing conditions IN
the barns and diaries OF many farms
OF this state q vast Improvement Is
necessary. Too many barns lack light
and ventilation. Too many mixers
are not clean enough. Some OF them
still milk dirty cows with wet nanus'
and only half cool their mix peiore
II leaves their farms. When tne an
NAL heat is retained In the MIX Ior
an hour or longer, no amount OF SUI
sequent cooling will entirely eiiminaCe
the musty taste thus acquired. Sucn
milk usually contains bacteria IRON
filthy sources which reproduce Win
almost miraculous rapidity In warm
milk. and by the time II Is consumer
by children the germs are there III
such large numbers as to frequently
produce disease and intestinai uis-
order.
These bacteria, when in their proper
place In nature, are very nseiul III
decaying lumus matter, and ~turning
its fertility to the soil. When any
thing In nature Is taken out or its
normal sphere II usually creates as
turbance. This Is an excellent exam
pie of this phenomenon. The putreiy-
ing bacteria continue their work the
same in the digestive system or the
child as they do In the uncleaniy
source from which they came, ana
hence produce noxious and unnatural
results.
Epidemics OF typhoid fever. scarlet
fever, diphtheria and other infectuous
diseases have thus been distributed
through an insanitary milk supply
from time to time In the majority OF
our large cities. II Is estimated that
the cities OF the United States con-
sumo 10000, 900 quarts of milk daily.
II Is also estimated by government
statistics that 100000 people die an
nually from tuberculosis, $4,000 from
typhoid, 1000 from diphtheria, 4.ooo
from scarlet fever, and that 4S,Ooo
babies under two years OF age are VIC.
tins OF diarrhea, while onethird OF
all babies born die before they are
three years old. There Is evidently
close relation existing between the
insanitary milk supply and the spread
OF Infectious diseases.
AS technical knowledge In dairying
becomes more general, and health OF
ficials and inspectors increase In NUM-
Der, dairy conditions gradually I'M
prove. Almost all large distributing
creameries have installed pasteurizers,
which in the hands Of competent OPP
orators destroy many OF the bacteria
present. This is an Improvement over
such milk unpasteurized. Pasteurized
milk, however, does not usually agree
with infants under twelve months OF
age, and Dure milk properly modified
to suit the individual should be substi-
tuted In all such cases.
Where enough capital Is involved
to properly equip and employ trained
men on dairy farms and in distributing
plants a better quality Of milk and
methods OF distribution have been OBJ
tanned. Wealthy men and philanthropy
lists who take fancy to pure bred cat
tie and good milk, are establishing
farms in every state in the union
where such stock and certified milk
Is being produced This milk Is far
above the average city milk supply,
but is produced at a great expense, and
the owners seldom realize any profit
from IL.
Such milk, although pure. is suitable
only for children over one year OF age,
until modified to meet the condition
Of each child This becomes serious
question when we consider the num-
Der of half nourished suffering babies
| in almost every community today.
believe that the only solution to
this problem Is that of the production
and modification OF pure milk by those
who make speciality OF II. The aver
age farmer hasn't time to produce even
certified milk. He Is doing general
farming, and dairying Is side issue
with him. His corn, oats. cattle and
hogs are Of more Importance TO him
than a few gallons OF milk which he
PRODUCES. Such dairymen have for
years produced milk and butter that
| has been a detriment and disgrace to
the dairy industry. City distributors
are compelled to pasteurize such milk
in order to handle 1t at all. This,
however, is merely means Of shadow
ing fifth. II is seldom properly done
because of the fact that the method
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