The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-03-16
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city council containing, among other
things, clauses concerning tuberculin
testing and pasteurization.
1t is very desirable that all milk
come from cows free from tuberculosis
and we should work toward this end.
But other diseases such as typhoid
by unpasteurized milk. Milk may also
contain large numbers Of other bac-
terra which causes intestinal disorders
in infants, which disorders sometimes
result in death. Proper pasteurization
cuts down the numbers of these bac-
terra and has been shown in various
instances to have lowered the infant
mortality rate.
Let us consider tw } OF the most i'm
portant objections which have some
times been raised to ~pasteurizinl milk.
1t is claimed by some that pasteur-
izing milk does not kill the germs OF
tuberculosis. Mr.. NJ. j. Rosenau, pro-
lessor of preventative medicine and
hygiene, Harvard medical school says
in his book on the milk question:
1T may be stated with confidence that
the tuberculosis bacillus, the typhoid
and the ~dysentery bacilli, the dipth-
liberia bacillus, the specific causes
of scarlet fever and other harmful mi
c~roorganisms which get into the milk
are rendered harmless by heating to
60 degrees C GAO degrees F. for
20 minutes. | am dogmatic upon this
point because | have made it the sub
iect of much study in the laboratory.
Further, the experience and expert
mentS of many scientists who have
investigated this subject are very clear
upon the point"
1t is also claimed that p%asteurized
mix is not desirable for infants be-
cause of changes produced by pasteur-
ization. Rosenau says, Much con-
fusion has arisen from a failure to
understand the difference between
sterilized milk and pasteurized. Many
of the undesirable properties OF boiled
milk, or milk heated to a high tenn
perature, do not apply to milk pasteur.
lied at the lower temperatures, which
modern research has shown to be sui
ficient."
Quoting again from Rosenau"Babies
should have mothers milk. There is
no adequate substitute -. III for
any reason, mothers milk IS not avail.
able, babies are entitled to the very
best and freshest COWS milk that can
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the best quality Of cows milk should
receive protection through pasteuriz
alton, especially in the summer time"
Some investigators claim to have
found that Vitamine G., the vitamine
which prevents scurvy is killed by
dissemination while others claim that
it is not. r. Adams butcher, (son of
|, Paul Dutcher) head of department of
agricultural chemistry, Pennsylvania
State college says: 1--WE have found
that milk may be heated in closed bot
ties for 80 minutes at 144 degrees F
without appearing to have lost its
a~ntiscorbutic (Vitimine c. activity"
He also says, Certainly, the science
is too young and the data too few to
recommend sweeping changes in the
present practices"
Even though the Vitamine c may be
missing in ~pasteurized milk, it can
readily be supplied by a little orange
Juice as your physician will tell you
Orange juice is usually desirable even
lo.. ,,,>octn,ri1nI will ic fnA DC
when COWS are not receiving green
feed the Vitamine C content Of the
milk is low.
Let us quote from DR.. McCollum,
who is perhaps the best known man
in the country in regard to work on
Vitamines. He says when it is alb
solutely necessary to feed a baby on
something other than the mothers
milk the first choice Of substitution is
the milk of the goat. After goats
milk, fresh pasteurized milk from the
COW forms the best food which is usu
ally available for an infant. 1T
~(pasteurized milk is vastly superior
to the average raw milk which is sold
in cities, however, and should always
| be selected instead Of the latter unless
certified milk is procured" ...."When
, p~asteurized milk is employed in in
FAINT feeding the child should be given
a teaspoonful of orange juice twice
daily after it is a month old. The
F., amount should be increased gradually
as the child grows older"
| Properly ~pasteurized milk is good
r milk but we should see to it that all
milk sold as pasteurized milk is prop
, erly pasteurized. Pasteurized mill
should receive as good care as raw
/. milk. 1t should be kept cold the same
: as raw milk and used when as fresh
as possible.
: milk.
In closing let us quote from Rosenar
again: "Pasteurization is the cheapest
!. form of life insurance the consumer
, can take out"
T. H. Wright, Jr.