Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-16
Foot and Mouth Disease.

 the human family occasionally. In the human family it is more apt to occur among the children through the milk supply.
 He says further that the milk SUD- ply can be made safe by pasteuriza- ton at 145 degrees temperature for 30 minutes. Zn as much as this is a question which concerns us all and subject on which doctors darically dis agree, I offer the following from the Lancet, which journal is considered representative of the. best medical thought in Great Britain and Europe
 A W. DAVIS.
 The Dangers of SteriIized Milk.
 To the editor of the Lancet:
 Sir: The line printed above this is the heading of an important article in the London TipSes oA.December 18th, in which Mir. Robert Mond had good deal to say against the practice of sterilizing the ocow's milk on which children are fed.
 The heading may possibly have sur prised or even alarmed some people; others it may have pulled up short and caused them to think, for sterili- zation of chiIdren's milk is still wide ly believed in as necessary. It is, indeed. part of the ritual of most nurseries.
 The question of the expediency of the necessity of the practice, however, cannot conveniently be centered in- to by medical men in the public press | (though I for one am grateful to the l Times for bringing the matter for ward, as well as for the way in which 1 it has been done), and I hope that | the Lancet will be inclined to open l it's columns to a discussion on the | subject.
 I do not know where the steriliza- l ticn of nursery milk was first ad- vised, but it is easy to see how il came about. Thus, cows are liable tc tuberculosis: milk from a tuberculosis COW may give rise to tuberculosis iI | the human subject; the germs of tu- berculosis are killed by a heat some l what below that of boiling water; children may be fed on milk thus treated without risk of their being 1 infected with tuberculosis, even if thf milk be drawn from tuberculosis COWS it Is very simple and attractive. Bur
 we do not yet know for certain tha- milk from a tuberculosis COW will in. feet 9 human being. MT. Mond say.
 that children have been reared or unster1lized milk from cows whicl
 berculous, and have been none thu worse for it. He also reminds u that our post-mortem records revea the fact that tuberculous children arl , infected by the air passages rat1e l than by the stomach or bowel H, 1 also tells of certain kittens which, be ing fed wholly on sterilized milk, diel miserably; while others used as control and fed on plain cows milk grew up and f1ourished. This was ] valuable vivisection eypAr'-@-~~+ r~
 it is to be hoped that by planning l and seeing it carrlea ou., B.. [ will not have attracted the suspicion . of violence of any of his friends. Il Of the hioehemistry of steriliza 1 ton of milk I am not competent t speak,, but do know this, that dur ing the process it has been strangei
 altered, for it's taste is quite differen ! The milk has been altered from 2 living fluid to a dead one To tn s adult this may not signify much bu { l for the child 1t may make all the dtf | ference, the milk havin1 lost ite Hv ing spirit. What exactly this Twin . spirit of milk may be the -c4lem4s4 unable to tell us. At any rate, cannot separate 1t in his test tut - nor weigh it in his most delicate bal Q ance. Yet it exists. Perhaps th E physioiogist who ig less of q ma : teraalist, can make a guess as 1 its nature. Otherwise 1t must be Ie.
 to the medical man to predict cor = corning 1t. My opinion is that ster | fixed milk is rendered unfit for foe 2 for young children. I am half incliE e ed indeed to ssy dangerous. hal q closely watched infants whose onl 6 food has been sterilized cows mi IS and hav6 found many of them DO. l and il1-nnur1shed and tn just the ceI