The daily sentinel., 1913-02-22

appecab the chemical the boog properties of the milk
practical well laboratory conditions has been shown by
Iexperimenters.
THE ADVANTAGE OF PASTEURIZATION
There are specific like the found that the
lowest proportion of typhoid fever any milk route in
Washington 1906 and 1907 on the route of the or dealer
who sterilzed his milk bottles and pasteurized his milk
1t generally known that typhoid fever rule more
prevalent the cities of the United States than European cities
of corresponding rank This those American cities
possessed of perfectly good public supply The most
plausible explanation for the existence of this high typhoid
American municipalities that the almost universal practice
tnena Europe of heating milk shuts out this food
of typhoid fever while this country the general of
milk opens the door wider for infection by this channel 1t is
tempting hypothesis that the striking decrease typhoid fever
that has occurred American cities the past few
large part due the increased proportion of pasteurzed milk
sold in these cities In Chicago for example, about per of
the milk had been paeurzed 1908 In July 1908,
ordinance passed to take effect January 1909 requiring
paseurizaon of milk from herds nsed with tubercu This
led quickly paseurzaon of something onea of the
total milk supply In 1910 estimated that Is cent of
the supply subjected to the heating process.
Average death from typhoid fever prior 1906 with
per less of milk pasteurized per popuaon
24S In 1910 and 1911 with so to IS per cent of milk
pasteurized, it I2.4-jus half
In Boston similar decline may be observed From 1891
1895, gil; 1900, 1910 and 1911, II5.
In 1910 about onehalf of the Boston supply said
ss of heated milk; in 1911 still larger proportion In
the smallest number absolutely well relatively ever recorded
the sanitary history of the city Other factors have doubtless
been work reduce the of typhoid fever but hard
resist the conclusion that the increasing of heated milk
largely responsible for the recent striking dmnuion
In New York and number of other American cities the po
phanthropc work of Nathan Srau has made possible the
establishment of milk depots from which paeuzed milk has been
distributed The establishment of such milk depots has been fol
infant morality Freeman othe conclusion that by far the
most important agency bringing about the Striking decline in
infant mortality the general adoption of pasteurzaton
sterilization of milk for infant feeding
There mquesonaby changes produced in the milk by
and antibodes of Not particle of evidence
exists however for ascrbg such substances favorable n
cnce on human digestion and metaboism,
The enzymes potatoes are, for all We
know, useful those milk be asked why bovine
engines should be supposed to add anything the efficacy the
enzymes normally present in the human amcntay Unit
positive demonstration has been made that benefit
from the ngeson of milk enzymes little importance can be at
tached to purely hypothetical consideration of this character
EFFECT OF PASTEURIZED MILK
Putting aside for the the question of con
veyance of specific infection the possible deceriou
individual etabosm of milk heated for twenty
as compared with that of the milk the condition.
well known that some experienced ccans inclined
tribute such conditions scurvy ricketts, young children
the continued of heated milk but the other hand
children fed with cows milk breast fed infants
Breemanns observations indeed indicate that raw milk mucl
surely hndrance dgestonBy Prof E. O. Jordan the
University of Chicago the International Congress Hygiene
up the milk supply of the city of New York very interesting
fact o the bacterial content of the milk delivered in the
cent of milk contain less than bacteria per cubic
eentmeer while with pasteuzed milk 1872 per
less than $4,000 bacteria per cubic centmeter.
1t is endeavor follow the ideas of Prof ordar
as nearly as possible We have improved the milk supply
rahd Junction more than 100 cent the last three
Our milk depot compares ayoraby with the modern plants
OF the state Our methods dairy farm, where all mI
produced being improved upon continuously To know
ledge we are the only dairy using the ubecun
we lead while others attempt follow Because of method
OF production and modern plant say, unhesatng
and without fear of contradiction that the Grand Dairy
most modern dairy the slope and
ably with the best ares in the state We always open
comparison and invite Inspection We do ask for your patron
until have visited the of your milk supply have
made comparison,
1t the duty of every housewife know that she getting
as and wholesome milk possible for her to obtain
for all know that of all food stu milk the greatest bac
terra bearing media In the future hope supply rane
Junction with milk equal to that any city, regardless of size
! . Z pure milk