The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-14
Physician Urges
Women To
Observe
Cleanliness
palm Beach Post

(Palm Beach Post.)
The ACCESSIBILITY of a bacteriologi-
cal test of the milk output of the local
dairies was explained by DR.. L. A.
Peek in his lecture before the Wom-
ans Education Association at its No
vember meeting. on Physical Nour-
ishment of Children"
DR.. Peek said:
Cleanliness is next to godliness is
an old adage. Let me give you an
other: Cleanliness is essential to
in preparation of
foods, cleanliness in serving foods,
cleanliness in preserving them for fu-
ture use. No alone that common
houseliness that we all are taught, but
an especial cleanliness that prevents
continuation of our food by the hands
of dirty cooks, prevents our food from
being soiled by flies and other obnox.
ious vermin.
1t is comparatively easy to achieve
cleanliness in those foods that are eat
en- cooked. The process of cooking
sterilizes the food. killing the filth or
ganisms even though they may be on
the uncooked food. True, such food
after being cooked may very easily
again become soiled, either by the
filthy hands of attendants, or the filthy
feet of flies. Foods not commonly
cooked have to be handled with more
circumspection. Especially we should
be careful of our milk supply. BY the
American habit quantities of I'M
cooked milk are consumed by infants
and adults. From the standpoint of
the innumerable millions Of germs of
fermentation and disease that are be-
ing constantly swallowed by our pop
ulations this is disadvantage. From
another standpoint, the fact that un-
cooked milk is rich in vitamines it is
good to drink uncooked milk. So we
have to make compromises. This we
do according to the nature of the case
individually and collectively. Where
diaries are inspected regularly by
competent persons. and the dairy own
ers encouraged to keep everything
moving along on high plane Of clean
illness. Where milk is delivered prop
erly, and handled properly in the
home after delivery, in these cases
we can let both infants and adults
drink unboiled, or unpasteurized milk.
This is the case with most of the So
called certified milk of the thicker
settled parts of America. Where the
milk is of uncertain origin, where the
attendants may be diseased, the cat
tie also, where the stables ar efilthy,
and flies abound, where milk is not
iced after milking, and where delivery
to the consumer occurs long after the
milking-in these case the milk
should be pasteuriZed or in some
cases boiled before use.
] do not wish to be construed as
making any attack on the local dali
ries. | am making no attack on them
We have no doubt just as good milk
here as anywhere. l feel however
that it would be better IL there we're
developed some effective system of
dairy inspection hereabouts, and that
the milk should be tested bacteriolog-
ically as to contained filthy serum at
various irregular intervals during the
year. If such inspections should be
made public the papers as reports,
and such psychological examinations
of milk should be printed in the local
papers, there would be general
knowledge of an authoritative sort
that we do have a good milk supply
here. | could tell people who wish
to- bring their infants south that
know the milk is good that we have
an inspection system that precludes
any other possibility. and that we
check our inspection system, by max
ing meteorological analysis of the
milk by competent persons recon-
mended by the state board of health
at unstated, irregular times, so that
we know.
How is it now? | can only state in
generally way that the milk here
abouts is good, but | can give no ac-
tual proof of it to persons who ask,
so many people go elsewheref no the
winter. Mothers and fathers do not
wish to run any risk for their prec-
ious offspring. Not only for the tour
list of wealth that comes amongst us
for few months, for ourselves, and
for our own dear children who stay
here all the year round we should do
this. 1t can be easily done, and it