The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-18
WHAT CONSTITUTES WHOLESOME MILK

| In the last two annual meetings of the American Association of Medical Milk Com | missions the pastcurization of certified milk was strongly advocated but voted down. When they begin pasteurizing certified milk. please my name off the list of certified milk customers. If we're going to depend on par boiling to dsinfect the milk, to kill off any disease germs there may be in it, then any Grade A or Grade B milk will do 1 can't saw the premium price for the certified kind If the Milk Commission that cortfes 1t (doctorS, bac- terologists, veterinarians, public health oii- cers) has so little faith in the purity of the product as to acknowledge that por-boiling (pasteurizaton) is necessary to make 1t safe food.
 Pasteurizaton means simply heating the milk up to 145 degrees r., keeping it at that temperature from 20 minutes to half an hour, and then cooling the milk again. That degree and duration of heat is enough to kill any tubercle bacill, typhoid bacilli, diphtheria ba- ci streptococc or other known disease pro- ducng germs which may be in the milk. That is the sole purpose or excuse Tor pasteurizing milk--to kill disease germs which may be in the milk, no matter whether the disease germs are contributed by the COW or by persons han. ding the milk at any point between COW and consumer.
 Pasteurized milk does not sour as quickly as raw fresh milk does This is because the heat ing also kills off or weakens the growth Of a considerable number of the tactic acid bacilli which naturally present in milk and which produce natural sourng of milk: AS these tactic acid germs are rather benehcial to man. it Is one drawback about pasteurizatlon that it does diminish the number or potency of these beneficial germs.
 Certified milk is the purest, cleanest, safest milk obtainable. It costs and is worth pre- mium price. Not only the dairy herd but the barns, the care of the animals, their feeding, the health of the animals the habits ana the health of every employe from mliker to deliv- cry man. is under the constant supervision or the milk commission which certifes the milk This commission usually consists or represen- tatives of the local medical society and the To- cal health board, and always includes or en- gages a bacteroogist to make regular exam nations of the milk, and veterinary surgeon to keep constant watch of the health of the cows Visitors to certified milk dairies are not welcomed-they may bring d1sease-but II you've ever visited such 8 place you know how extraordinarily clean everything. and every animal and every person was. But that isn't the half of it. Of course mere visible cleanliness is desirable, but it doesn't give any assurance of safety from disease.
 If certified milk is not entirely safe with out pasteurization, then l think customer would be foolish to pay the premium price TOT it. 1 have always regarded certified milk as pure and clean from the beginning; whereas pasteurized milk is any old milk dlsinfected by heat.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Enema by Another Name
 Please give me your advice to the use of the (charlatans name for syringc). Some specialists recommend it. (W. O.
 Answer-specaists in what? Landing the from his spare change? The frequent or hab- tual use of any form of enema is wores than any cathartic phyaic habit. Tn my opinion.
 Aluminium
 | have an aluminium juice extractor. ! nos tice it discOIOrs orange juice or grapefruit juiec slightly should I return it? Many might not notice tine disc0lOratiOn, but I have tried q glass rcainer tO compare. and the aluminium one certainly discoiOrs the juice. lMrs M. s) Anhwer--It would have no III erect oif health If the taste is not affected, why worry
 When tbc Heart stops Beating
 Is t prsslbIe to bring fife back i0 q person after inc heavi has stopped bentingY Is per. son pronounced dead when the heart stops brntingY Can theye be life after inc Ienr hna one stopped beating? Are babies eyer born without heart action and then rcsuheithied by tbc physician? tfiiidn. Eii'ei ana C'h'r)' Answer 1. Yes. g. Sometimes ihe person in. rather too soon. .. feA {. Yes. Your questions are HB indefinite ss my aDhweb-you fhlI lg specify how long ihe ee~ation or hbsenee or that n has stopped.