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13 not ing the
eed for cean or a disease-fre is not contended that
dirt or dinâmishes the need for clean production. What is claim- fed for pasteurisation is that fit offers protection to the con- W.C.2sumer against infection by hand- ing, which in this Colony is like- ly to be the chief somice of any- milk-borne epidemic Dr. Basto uses the ignorant coole” argu- ment to stress the danger of in- complete pasteurisation. Yet it is because ignorant coolies" are handling the Colony's raw milk the Writer's Name and Address, supplies in many cases that ad-
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badvocates of pasteurisation are so
insistent upon its importance, as suming with some
that pasteurisation plant, expensive and technical in operation, must always be placed in the care of competent employees.
On the general issue, it may be said that, while medical opinion is not unanimous on the merits of pastenrisation, the large majority is in favour This majucity m cludes individual doctors of eminence, such as Lord Horder Hong Kong, Thursday, March 31, 1938. and Lord Dawson of Penn, the
PASTEURISATION
British Medical Association and most of the Medical Officers of Health in Britain, including both the last and the present Chief The development of the Urban Medical Officer. Pastemisation, Council debate on reconstituted though not by universal compul- sion, was strongly recommended milk by-laws into a disenssion on
by the Gowland Hopkins-Com- the question of milk pasteurisa-mittee on Cattle Diseases in 1994, tion generally was not altogether and by the Milk Reorganisation a surprise. It is known that the Commission in 1936. The case for ingate pasteurisation is briefly that it. Government is, more or less, com-affords if not a complete at any mitted in principle to compulsory rate by far the most effective pasteurisation of all the Colony's known guarantee against infer- milk supplies, and the clear in- tion through milk. It destroys dication by Dr. Selwyn Clarke, not only the germ of bovine the new D.M.S., of his individual tuberculosis but also other germs. Tapproval of this step, is calculat-
ed to cause opponents to rally destroys any germs (e.g. typhoid originating with the cow. It also their forces for battle. Challenge and dysentery) which may have. to the official decision that all] been reconstituted milk should be pas-handling. Its advocates day no communicated through teurised may be interpreted, on this basis, rather more as resis-these claims than on the first. less emphasis on the second of tance to the thin end of the well-known cases have occurred wedge" than as solid objection to where "TT" milk produced the requirement as such.
"
der what might have been thought
A good many facts were cited to be impeccable conditions of and quotations made by Dr. Bas- hygiene has, nevertheless, caused to in condemning the move to-epidemics owing to the handling wards compulsory pasteurization of the milk by an undetected car in the Colony, and he made one rier. Pasteurisation eliminates statement which must be regard these germs.
ed as distinctly curious, having It is to be noted, further, that regard to all the facts. Dr. Basta fresh legislation is about to said: "Pasteurisation is very esntroduced shortly by the British sential in England and in the Government to implement United States and I fully ag milk policy as described in their with the general medical opimon White Paper Fast July. that it should be made compul principal proposal is to authorise sory. Whereas in these coun-fany local authority, subject to tries there is very good ason certain conditions, to apply to for enforcing this measure (and the Ministry for an order impos notwithstanding this, it is not ing compulsory pasteurisation in enforced) the same conditions do its area. It will be seen that not obtain here. We find this the Goverment have committed curious, because it has always themselves in principle to been presumed to be the sound-pulsory pasteurisation, though est argument of the pasteurisa-practice it is to be restricted to tion protagonists that if it is felt local option. This may seem to to be
ary in Eng and be lack of decisive policy, but, m America and Canada, then the fact, pasteurisation is extensive need in Hong Kong becomes em-y carried out already. There are phasised a hundredfold. It is no exact or ecmprehensive statis dificult to believe that it could ties 28 to the amount of ever be urged in all seriousness ised milk now being cons that the danger of disease infec England. In the London tion from milk sources is greater however, it is known to be
in England than in Hong Kong 190 per cent, in Glasgow 80 per It is true that scarlet fever is cent., and in many of the large rare in the Colony, That is be towns between 60 and 70 cause the germ does not thrive cent. In the small towns and
This climate. But the fof bovine tuberculosis has ne
zately
while the Colony must const
areas the percentage: behered to be small largely
ise local consumption all to justify the
cisation plant.