The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-01-08
THE MILK SUPPLY
The Cleanliness of Diaries an Essential
to the Conservation of Health--The
Pasteurization OF Milk.

condition of the da1fieS supplying the
citizens of Shreveport with milk, was
somewhat startling. 1t would seem that
from this report there is not dairy
supplying milk to the consumers of
Shreveport which has the standard, fixed
i'll this instance at fifty percent, in which
is embraced the sanitary requirements
required by law
While specific i'll details as to the i'm
proper, Unlawful, unClean OF unsanitary
condition of these dairies,' the names
of the delinquents, owners or managers
of such dairies, have been reserved from
publicity.
While censuring i'll strong terms these
dairies, the Shreveport Board of Health
did not escape criticism. Accepting as
trtfe and uncxaggerated the report of
DIR. Dowling, it follows that action
should be directed against all the dairies
which are unclean and unsanitary Milk
which is tlnclean and unsanitary should
not be sold to the public.
However, in this instance there ap-
pears to be a disagreement sas to the
milk sold in Shreveport by nlilktnen be
ing unclean and unSanitary. The Shreve-
port Board of Health while conceding
that some of the dairies do not measure
tip to the required standard, yet the milk
sold to the citizens of Shreveport and as
inspected by an expert is clean, whole
some and sanitary This inspection of
milk is carefully made from samples of
milk obtained by an assistant Inspector
who is constantly on the alert and who
procures his samples from the wagons
as they appear on the streets at an early
hour of the day. As the assistant in
spector has no regularity in his move
ments or methods, the driver of the
milk wagon or the sellers of milk are
given no cite or notice of the assistant
inspectors call for samples of milk
which he draws into a vial which is
closed and marked and which is then de-
livered to the bacteriologist for analysis.
Considering the limited funds at their
disposal and the disadvantages against
which they must contend, members of
the Board of Health, who are pi1ysi-
clans, have declared that all that could
be done was being done practically and
that while there were dairies beyond the
corporate limits which could be iin-
proved, yet with its limited means the
Board Of Health was doing all that can
be done illtelligently. It could not be
disputed that the milk sold, after an in
spection by the authority of the Board
of Health, was clean and wholesome
and sanitary.
MILK PASTEURIZED.
AS to Pasteurized milk, the views of
the physicians of the Board of Health
seem to be clear and direct. It has been
suggested and proposed that the milk
which is intended for sale in Shreveport
should be Pasteurized. To do this, all
milk would have to be delivered at a
central point in the city for Pasteuriza-
ton. The milk would be obtained from
dairymen and other at fixed price by
the gallon When Pasteurized it would
be sold to the consumers at an advanced
price. This would centralise the milk
supply and create monopoly of milk.
In discussing this question of milk one
of the members of the Board of Health
directed the Caucasian TO an article III
Pearson's Magazine for December 1910
by Amos Dosch, headed "The Pasteur-
lied Milk Fraud"
An editoriai note of this magazine
reads "Pasteurized milk is credited with
having reduced considerably the infant
death rate in this country--with being
the only milk in which there is no prob
ability of itnpurity Naturally, big
demand followed. The public has
thought that the label 'Pasteurizef
spelled safety. Recently the virtue of
this milk has been severely attacked.
The criticism has been so harsh that one
man who has for years spent thousands
in providing Pasteurized milk for ba-
bies has announced that he will discon
tinue this philanthropy This magazine
has sought to establish the value or fall
lacy of Pasteurization and TO explain
the difference between the scientific and
the commercial process. A careful ir1-
=vestigation has been conducted The
result Of that investigation, together
with surprising facts concerning the ease
and economy with which clean, pure
milk can be produced is set forth in the
following article. Il IS very interesting
to every man or woman who drinks milk
or uses cream or butter in any form. It
lis of particular interest and importance
TO fathers and mothers of babies
In the rules laid down, the basis IS
predicated on common sense. Cleanli-
ness is the first and all important re-
quisite. In brief, every department of
IA dairy must be sanitary and free from
any COW which may be diseased.
The man who has Withdrawn his