The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-09-25
"SAvE BABY'S LIFE;
USE PURE MILK"
SAYS LOCAL EXPERT

Salt Lake City, Sept. Gloon
densed milk is preferable to cows
milk for babies use." Willard Hansen
Jr., state dairy and food commission
er, said this morning. The consump-
ton Of condensed milk is rapidly in
creasing throughout the United States
because 1t is put up under the most
sanitary conditions possible. This
milk is held in an extreme heat for
from thirty to forty minutes. 1t is SO
thoroughly pasteurized that it kills
al, germs, and is thus perfectly safe
for consumption by the little ones.
This may make some of the dairy
men object. am not speaking as am
advertising agent for any condensed
milk firm. But | am boosting for
the life of babies. | know Of three
instances in our own family where
the babies since taking condensed
milk instead of milk in it's original
form are better and healthier. Many
persons are prejudiced against the use
of the condensed milk. But that milk
is only evaporated down to its pre-
sent consistency, nothing either be-
ing taken away from II or added to it
by the process. do not claim for con-
densed milk that 1t eliminates all of
the dirt that may get into the milk,
but | dc claim that the process
through which it passes in course of
manufacture does kill the germs.
Milk is no cleaner than the dirtiest
thing it touches. 1t is subject to con-
tam'nation from the moment it leaves
the COW. Even air Is full Of germs.
MIX being food, these minute organ
isms feed on 1t and grow.
This subject of safeguarding the
milk supply of the land is engaging
the attention of all the experts of the
United States government. Some au-
thorities in the east claim that from
90 to 10 per cent of the dairy cattle
in that part of the country are tuber
GUAR. The translation of bovine tu-
berculosis to the human body is a
question which is still discussed some
leading authorities saying that 1t can
be translated and that 1t has been
traced
AT any rate it is certainly an es.
tablished fact that typhoid fever and
other communicable diseases can be
readily transmitted from one person
to another through the medium of
milk. In one small eastern city 1t was
found that certain dairy, although
passing the inspection for cleanliness
in first class shape, had sixty-five
cases OF typhoid fever along the route
of its customers. In some manner,
the investigation disclosed, can re-
turned from one house originally in
fected with that disease was washed
with other cans, and so the disease
to the sixty-four other places.
so you see why our inspectors are
so careful, as their work safeguards
the public health.
"In my opinion, even the best OF
milk should be sterilized thoroughly
not in the haphazard way of some
dairymen. but held at high tempera-
ture for from fifteen to thirty min.
utes, to insure the guarantee of the
heat killing all the life in the germs.
Salt Lake Citys milk supply sur.
passes that of Boston or Washington
d. c. which ! inspected while east
some time ago, And those cities pride
themselves in that regard. But, still
for the baby's sake should advise
the use of condensed milk, to insure
the safekeeping of the little ones
| life"