The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-16
The Peoples Say

To the Editor of The Tmes:-
 The estimate of the local Health quarts as a fair average of the daily milk consumption here. Under the city ordinance at present operative, they tell us 86 per cent. or 47,300 of this milk is Pasteurized.
 Five cents a quart is probably a low estimate of the added cost from this Pasteurizing process
 That means s2.S5O per diem. It means, in round numbers sS57,750 per year for this luxury O. Rasteur- ization.
 That is some money even in these days when millions go so easily. It would give one dollar a day to each of the city's 2.350 unemployed, if there are that number, including Sun days.
 New Haven, a larger city. and with an infant mortality rate five per cent lower than that of Bridgeport, does not require Pasteurization. Meriden and New London with a rate of 21 per cent. and 16 per cent. respective ly, lower than that of Bridgeport, do not require their milk to be Pasteur- ized. We, in fact. are the only city of the state which does require it.
 When Millionaire Philanthropist Straus took the matter up a few years ago it was supposed the last word had been said on the subject But we live to learn. All life, both animal and vegetable, needs the aid of bac- teria. Sterilized milk does not give the results. The tactic acid bacillus is essential for nourishment. and this is killed by PaSteurization. The state, too, is objectionable to most of us.
 In these days of over regulation wouldn't it be a good plan to have something in the line of drink of a natural and satisfactory flavor? Another phase of the matter is that the local dairymen are being run out. Here is how it works. He must have his milk Pasteurized, which requires a big plant and is in a practical mo- nopoly His nearby location availS him nothing. His milk is dumped in to the same tank with that brought in by rail from hundred miles off and nets him the same price. Four and a half cents was being paid at near by farms. leaving the producer a. somewhat short margin to turn round in.
 The wise people of the Antipodes. solved this problem of Pasteuriza- ton, more especially. in it's relation to the sustenance and growth of children. Below is report from the vice president of the Childs' Study Association of Sidney, Australia deal ing with the question, and published in the New York World:
 ''To the Editor of the Wor1d:-
 "As to pasteurized milk, which MT. Straus hopes to see in general use, I should like to say, as a visitor from Australia, that we do not get the good results from pasteuTi7ed milk that we get from pure milk direct from the COW.
 'fwe have roughly about 5000 mothers, babies and children. who pass through our hands at the pr. Carroll Childs' Study Association in Sydney, getting advice on food, etc. and they are all put on unpaste urized or pure milk, with the most wonder fu1 results that are not beaten in any part of the world.
 "As for babies, we do not get the results with pasteurized milk, and we found if a baby was not progressing as 1t should the cause was generally that the milk was not direct from the COW, but was pasteurized, and we took steps at once to see that this was a.1- tered, with immediate Improvement to the baby. We do not like the milk iced. either, and the sooner delivered the better.
 "PORTTA GEACH," "Vice President Childs' Study Asso- citation, Sydney. Australia EX-DAIRYMAN.