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STRONG CASE IN H. K. FOR PASTEURISATION

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and a number of coolies. The staff are not subjected to periodical medical ex amination by a qualified medical prac titioner and no routine tests are made

to ascertain whether any are carriers of typhoid, diphtheria or dysentery.

the Flexner type. None of the indivi- duals from whom the specimens were taken showed any signs or symptoms of disease or had any history of recent

ilress.

rothers.

Pasteurisation

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 6, 1937.

LATEST WARPLANECAN CARRY 50 MEN

away.

BRITAIN'S MASS-PRODUCED SECRET

Britain's first mass-produced reach its base without accident,” warplane, a giant Handley Page declares the article. Those who had given positive results bomber, capable of carrying 50 Once its cargo of bombs is un- soldiers, named the loaded, it is stated, the machine were immediately taken off their or fully-armed dinary duties and their places taken by Harrow, is so heavily camouflaged can reach the fantastic height of that when lined up against a back-136,000 feet, which puts it out of Dairy Equipment

On a subsequent examination made The equipment of the dairy includes a fortnight later seven of those who round of trees she is practically the range of the most powerful coolers, separators, pasteurisers, stec had given a positive result proved ne-invisible from a few hundred yards anti-aircraft guns in existence.. ilisers, washing machines, and botting

gative.

A single-engine aeroplane, claim- machines. There is a good supply of

Recently the Air Ministry for ed to be capable of flying non-stop steam which can be carried.. through Owing to the belief held by many of flexible hoses and applied to any appa- the and not a few of the medical the first time allowed journalists to from Tokyo to New York (over ratus in the building for scalding and profession that pasterisation in some see a completed aeroplane on their 6,500 miles), is reported to be near-

at Tokyo. sterilizing purposes. The milking way causes an alteration in the quality semi-secret list or the factory ing completion s pails and conveying cans are of good of milk rendering it less nutritious and where it was made.

On this basis the aeroplane pattern and so are the bottles.

being confident that the methods em-

The Harrow is by no means should be able to cruise round the Special care is taken in washing and ployed by them would produce a clean sterilizing. The coolers are washed safe milk such as would pass as Grade pretty-looking craft. She has a world with only two stops.

Cruising speed quoting a Ja- with a special antiseptic fluid and live A at home, the Dairy Farm did not snub nose and a tubby tail, while steam and a hose is played on the surpasteurise their products except when in the centre of the roof is a turret. panese newspaper, is 150 m.p.h. face after washing. The separators demanded by their customers. A mo-But these three features hide ma- and pasteurisers are. scrubbed and dern pasteurising plant had been in chine-guns. scalded by steam. Bottles and cans are stalled by the company which could be: washed by special machines and then used in case of emergencies but for the subjected to steam sterilizing in a chamber.

Her speed is being kept secret, reasons explained it was only put into but she is stated to have exceeded general use when local circumstances the expectations of her designer. appeared to make such a step advis- Italy's latest long-distance bom- able.

Ocean Airway Proves Of To Science

Cooling, separating, pasteuring, and bottling are carried out in rooms which

bing 'plane, said to be the most Collecting Specimens On are screened against flies.

Immediately the company learned. Each milker washes his hands and that there was a possibility of any of powerful in the world, is described

Pacific Islands the teats of, the cow. with chlorine its products being at fault steps were in the official organ of the Air Min- water before commencing milking. taken to pasteurise all the milk and istry in Rome.

Altogether it can be said that the milk is handled in a sanitary manner from the cow to the consumer and would be called Grade A at home.

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chlorinated.

The filter is a Patterson pressure fil- ter said to contain sand and charcoal, This filter is steamed once a week to sterilize the filtering material.

cream before issuing by passing it. "The plane can easily reach any The newly-created ocean air. through the modern pasteurising plants European capital, bomb it and bases of the Pan-American Pacific installed on the premises.

What Air Passenger Lists Show

service are providing museums with The method of pasteurisation

interesting specimens for study and Water Supply

ployed by the Dairy Farm company is Filtered water from the Government that known as the holder process in

display. From the station on Wake water works being unavailable the which the milk is raised to a tempera-

Island, live fidder crabs are now company has installed its own water fare between 60 deg and 70 degicenti.

being flown to Honolulu, where they works. The source of supply is the grade and held at that temperature for

are placed on exhibition in the Pokfulam reservoir and a stream dis- a period of twenty minutes to half an charging into it. Raw water taken hour. If properly carried out so that The cosmopolitan nature of mo- Museum. These fiddler crabs are from this source is first filtered then the milk is uniformly heated to the redern air travel is revealed by a not to be found in Hawaiian waters; quired temperature for the required study of the professions or occupa- hence the need for them to be car- time the results must be satisfactory and all pathogenic organisms which are tions of passengers entering and ried for 3,000 miles in Clipper' leaving Australia by the flying flying-boats. The crabs are sent in non-sporers killed.

Since the pasteurisation process has route

special containers with a little moist The chlorinating apparatus is a Pat- been in use thirty four specimens of In the lists are included judges, seaweed and sea water. terson Chloronome one of the most re- the pasteurised products have been

barristers, pearl-fishers, rubber- The Midway island air-halt lies liable on the market. The dose of examined by the Government Bacterio- chlorine is stated to be 0.6 parts per logist. In each case the total number planters, aviators, graziers, jockeys, in the Hawaiian Bird Beservation, 1,000,000. A dose of 0.25 is generally of organisms has been far below the and diamond-drillers. Other call-and when the Museum of the Uni- considered sufficient for filtered water number fixed in England as the top ings which catch the eye of any-versity of California wants speci-

Safety Factor

limit for pasteurised milk and in only one scanning the lists are those of mens to study, a request is trans- Under the conditions of working the six cases was the standard below that geologists, opticians, circus man-mitted to the airway staff on Mid- filter can only be regarded as a strain-fixed for Grade A pasteurised milk. er and cannot be relied on to prevent The process as carried out at the Dairy agers and artistes, cinematogra- way, and they collect what is re the passage of bacteria. The safety Farm is then highly satisfactory. phers, radio engineers, tourist man-quired, consigning the specimens by

air-liner. agers and traffic experts.

factor lies in the amount of chlorine

Case For Pasteurisation used. If there be a sufficiency all or Pasteurisation when properly done ganisms will be killed but if there be does not bring about any deterioration -- an insufficiency some will escape. in the nutritive properties of milk. For years samples of this water have Many medical men are under the im- been submitted to the Government pression that heat sufficient to kill thei Bacteriologist for examination. As a pathogenic organisms in milk destroys rule the results have shown the sam-some substance in it essential for the ples to be of a high standard of purity welfare of the young, but this has been but occasionally a sample has not been proved not to be the case and children up to the mark. During the investiga brought up on pasteurised milk develop tion in connection with the epidemic just as satisfactorily as those who have special attention was paid to the water been brought up on raw milk. supply and samples were submitted for Efficient pasteurisation on a commer- examination both to the Government cial scale can only be done in a plant Bacteriologist and the Government costing a considerable sun, a sum be Analyst. The reports from both theseyond the means of small dairies. Where authorities were satisfactory.

there are a number of small dairies Flies

pasteurisation can be carried out in a With regard to flies there can be no common plant run by Government or a doubt that at times the farm depot is company or by a co-operative society heavily infested with these insects. The such as that in Calcutta. Pasteurisation plant, the cooling plant Pasteurisation costs money even and the bottling plant are in what is when done on

on a large scale. In the usually described as fly proof rooms Dairy Farm the cost is stated to be two but flies do find entrance and do settle cents a half pint.: sometimes on the cleaned cooling plant

Sanitary Problem

and on the cleaned and sterilised bottles Attempts by sanitary authorities to and on the bottling machine. The obtain a clean milk solely through company place the blame for the thes supervision of production and distribu-i on the Pokfulam village on the onno-hion, have everywhere failed. In prac-1 site side of the road a collection of huts tice it has been found impossible to or small houses occupied by nig keep exercise the control over detail which ers and market gardeners. From time is necessary to ensure freedom from to time for the last sixteen years this contamination. Realising this the an village has been proved to breed flies, thorities of Toronto, New York The Sanitary Department on the other many other cities have decreed that hand have proved that the manure its milk shall be sold unless it be

pasterzisati of the Dairy Farm itself are fruitful fled or sterilised

places for flies: Action is be otherwise

by the Sanitary Department It is generally admitted that an abatement of the maisance, risks of milk contai

a“ dairy

Carriers

Specimens from the stools of all em- ropeans than in on

plovees engaged in the handling

educated, Chiness.

than fin

milk were submitted to the Govern- to re ment Bacteriologist for examination” to: Kong discover, if any of the workers

dysentery carriers. Altogether sport the Colony. mens from 113 employees were exam-guard the purity Tined

compulsory

Gts showed rome positive for times m

ze bacilli of the iga byp

for dysentery bacili of locally

The risks

then in the

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