The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-08
IMPROVEMENT IN INFANT HEALTH
 THROUGH MILK

than a straus ; of of New York, dealing with the improvement of infant health conditions through the use of pasteurized milk. was read by Dr. S. G. H Moore, health officer of Huddersfield, at the Conference on Infant Welfare held here today un- der the patronage of the King and Queen.
 MT. Straus' paper stated that it was his original purpose, when the milk campaign was fnaugurated in 1892, to check the ravages from summer their second summer. At that time, MT. Straus asserted, a large percent, age of children succumbed from in- testinaI trouble in the second sum mer when the change was made from mothers milk to ''the infected milk of the cow"
 "Of 1.S47.0Ss deaths in the United States in 1914, 2TS,52O were of babies ] deaths were from intestinal disorders mainly infectious diseases due to germs conveyed in milk" MT. Straus' : paper stated.
 subject of extensive scientific re- search it became evident that germs caused other diseases, in addition to tuberculosis and intestinal poison.
 Typhoid, scarlet, diphtheria. scep- tic sore throat and measles, all of these diseases were found to be caus- ca by germs in milk.
 There are records of numerous , epidemics where it was officially es- tablished that the milk supply had been the carrier of the germs. The most striking of all was my experi- ence during the infantile paralysis epidemic which scourged New York during the summer of 1916. Of 2,1OO children who were entirely fed on the pasteurized milk prepared at my la horatory, not single case of the disease developed. When this fact became known, I was besieged by frantic mothers for information"
 Mir. Strauss advisedthese inquirers to use pasteurized milk or to boil it if they were unable to obtain milk so treated. He told of the establishment of his milk depots in various parts of New York City where trained at tendants advised the mothers in the his pioneer work had been followed was shown in the paper by the fact , that 100 infant milk depots had been established in New Yrrk. 25 in Phila- delphia, 20 in Chicago and 12 in St Louis Altogether in the United States MT. Strauss said. 297 such stations are distributed in 36 cities.
 By this means milk at one cent a large glass free. from any possible infection" was brought within the reach of children. In some summers 1,500,O0O glasses were dispensed through these stations.
 10 enable people who desired to pasteurize milk for their own use he devised a pasteurizer that could be used in the home and sold them at cost or gave them to those who could not afford to pay He presented a complete pasteurizing plant to the city of Philadelphia and quoted fig ures showing the reduction of infant mortality which ensured.
 Mir Strauss told of the opposition which he asserted, arose from the sell flshness and ignorance of dairymen ands milk dealers and said it was an incessant fight to compel them to pas teurize their milk.
 All his social work whether in propaganda for pasteurization or in his Health Department in Jerusalem was open to all. The milk was pro- yided without distinction fo race, re- / Igion or color.
 Concluding, he stated: ''I have the satiSfa ction of worldwide recogni- ticn of the importance of putting an end to the criminal and unnecessary waste of child life through milk pois- cnjng.
 SPa aSteuriZation must become a world movement-a movement that will prevent disease-that will keep the babies in health-that will glad den the hearts of mothers, that will
 make this world, healthier, happier better.