Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-12-29
LAW RECOGNIZES
NEED OF PURIFYING
OUR MILK SUPPLY


Pasteurzation Becoming Compulsory.
Scientific pasteurization is now rec.
ognized throughout the civilized
world as the only method by which
milk can be rendered safo for human
consumption, Ii is the result of in
restiGation and research covering a
period OF years. and its efficiency has
never been denied. No disease germ
can survive the temperature of las
degrees Fahrenheit. at which milk
Is held for thirty minutes during the
process of pasteurization With the
disappearance OF the germs the dam
ger of disease being transmitted thru
the milk IS also eliminated
Hundreds of cities have made the
compulsory pasteurization of milk
| cardinal feature of their municipal
government. They find it pays to be
sue of the peoples milk supply Does
as one suppose that these coamuni-
| tes would revert to the old methods.
10Y which unclean and dangerous milk
lis sold to the consumer? 9s77os
When You take your bottles of milk
! from your doorstep, b giveHa Thought
Occasionally 10 the wonderful system
that has fnrnishedj it. for your con-
lFenienee and prOteetion.vbB ans
| PHsteurization Enforced bylLeading
Rnh Dt hI Authorities. sT9bh9
A few monthsrago the Newport, r,
! l.rt.city council provided forTa milk
spmtiee to. investigate the city's
4 4 supply During their inyestiga-
APh meg wrote the leading public
Realth oilgla'ls and son if-
rant feeding regaldlng pasteU. ,-ation.
Excerpts from their replies are pub
I!shed below: -at M 7.R
DIR. NJ j, Rosepau. dean Of the, Med
ical school, Harvard university: II
regard presentation as a sanitary
safeguard, and that the, benefits far
outweigh the fewer minor objections
that have been brought up against
IT,"
Frank A Jackson chairman Food
and Drug Commissioners, State of
Rhode Island Your pasteurization
plants in Newport are doing good
work. we consider the milk condi-
ton in your city excellent Every
one should thank the health depart
| nent for the regulations passed in
! l9l7 chat all market milk should be
| pasteurized. People coming in from
| out of town feel safe in drinking the
/ milk and some day | hope to see all
market milk paateurized This is
| the only method that insures safety
| from contamination in handling"
| Lester "A. Round, PatholotNst,
Rhode Island State Board of Health:
4 h1 ne ,,,;l IL
| speetion and control as outlined in
your letter to be the best obtainable
and the only safe method in handling
municipal supply +, personally con-
sider certified and pasteurized milk
to be the only kind of milk that can
| be considered safe" a
| DR. Louis Harris. bureau of Pre-
ventable Diseases New York City
| Health Department: 1--WE are facing
condition and not theory. 1t is a
| fact that certified milk cannot be
obtained for all the children of any
! moderate sized community. Further
we know from sad experience at
tested to by statistics gathered in
every large city that the infant NOR
| tality rate has been enormous where
ever raw milk as commonly, sold has
| been used. We have come to know
| that pasteurization is a life-saving
| measure in so far as 1T concerns in
| fants and children who depend upon
milk as their chief food. Everywhere
| the introduction of pasteurization
| has resulted In an almost and most
striking reduction of the infant NOR
tally rate" @
DR.. r. G.. Sherman, acting execu-
tive officer Chemistry department,
Columbia university: Regarding the
advantage of pasteurization, | share
the view which l think Is prevalent,
that, as a safeguard against the pos
sibility of milk infection, it is better
that all milk below the grade of GER
titled be pasteurized."
DR.. D. B. Armstrong executive Of
ficer, Health Demonstration of the
National tuberculosis Association,
birmingham, Mass: Il thing it is
safe to say that the dietry experts are
convinced that pasteuriZation bears
no harmful relation to infant feed
ing II was once thought to-,be in
strumental in the development of
ricketts,. We are now convinced that
ricketts, may develop in children while
entirely breast fed. and that the dis
ease is the result of some essential
food element deficiency. On the 9TH
er hand, pasteurization properly car
ried out does not injure the growth
producing elements or vitamines in
milk. Neither does it deleteriOusly
affect the content of the food value
of the milk-tAdy. '"H7 80 ~