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Milk Is The Ideal Food But It Is Also The Ideal Culture Media For

eficient

depend for their numbers

he cleanliness wi

the

produced

crease is checked by cooling it once

Practically All Bacteria ofte hnd kobping it egol. One Sunt

VUTO BE SAFE

M

pasteurised. ***

ideal food, but it Bacteria multiply with: the is also an ideal culture medium warmth of the mik. At 50 degrees, for practically all types of bacteria, one microbe will in twenty-four and lends itself readily to the spread

of disease. It has been known to carry diphtheria when accidental infection has taken place. If typhoid. breaks out in any locality where

the

mer, three dairies bent milk from

MALL, JULY 1, 1637.

A Medical

Expert

the United States to Europe; it was done to the vitamins constitutes no still in perfect condition three weeks problem. Orange after bottling.

For years pediatrician ed pateurisation; they

friit, to-

miato, of sáucët kraut

Even in le spoonful quantities, drunk at of the day, will-en-ily re-

that, the growing child required place any lost, raw milk and that certificati was sufficiently protective. They

MILK MUST BE

water supply is safe, milk is hours, produce five more; at 70 de the next suspect. Several hundred grees, instead of one, there will be epidemics have been traced to it. 750. Yet, though heat encourages.

Seventy-two

Pasteurisation kills 99 pe

cent.

Although the organism of scarlet the growth of germs, if raised high fever is probably a streptococcus, enough, it will destroy them, utter- research workers have not yet been ly. Heating milk intermittently to able to agree on the exact form. But 145 degrees Fahrenheit, for about that it can readily be conveyed by half an hour does not affé milk has long been known,

sential qualitles, but does remové cases of scarlet fe- the harmful organis ver in a single month occurred in New York State, all but one among of the bacterial life the milk, in- the patrons of a dairy supplying two-thirds of the Village of Red Creek with raw milk. Three of the dairyman's children had dangerous streptococci in their throats. The milk of one' cow which had sores on her udder was found to the streptococci.

2

Tuberculosis is still the scourge

THE

or stolen

The argument that infected milk was still encountered after pasteurisation was eaglly met. It is true that in the first years the ress itself was not foolproof. Investigation disclosed that in plants the pipes leading Heating cylinders did

had been converted to the clean

from milk school and held fast to its Tenets. After vitamins were dis-hot allow all the milk to drain off, covered, they adduced that heat ・・・ and organismus, quickly developed destroyed these essentials,

in the culture me

pre-

PASTEURISED

cially anti-scróbútic Vitamin C., although admitting that they could be restored in other ways. Actually, whatever damage.

WORLD GOES BY

By “ULYSSES

most commonly associated with the 66 Home."

dairy.

The microbe which causes

pared: his mechanicar defect was soon remedied."

Between 1917 and 1980 out of 93 milk-borne outbreaka

communi-

cable disease in New York State, only two could be traced to pas- teurised milk. In one of thèse, pro- per pasteurisation was doubtful; in the other the

ination was oved to have taken place in the tiling plant afterwards.

The tial responsibility of avoid- ing disease rests on the consumer. Milk of a given standard of purity la delivered to a home or restaur- ant. But bottle may have been ex- Miss posen to contamination. The house- Cook must see to it that this

an Egg Face Mask at fary” Society was opened by Miss

Agatha Fender. We desire to cor rect this statement. The meeting -Newspaper headline. was course opened by Miss

Agatha Fender.” Sounds like advice to those about I think they must mean tubercular cow may produce all to fight a by-election in a tough con- Agatha Fender. forms of the disease in humans.stituency.

it in cattle is not the same as that which commonly attacks man. Nevertheless, raw milk

from

a

It is unfortunate that young child-

ren who are the most in need of

milk should be the most susceptible.

Although only 10 per cent of the

→

pulmonary type can be ascribed to

Telegram

of

Cheery

fash

This rollicking new from Caithness in Scotland:

“Having resigned practising as a

is clean.

durance speaker.

am reminded of Mr. Corinaldi, of the Jamaica Legislative Assem-

ply

raw milk, the guilt for 50 per cent. Eton celebrated the Fourth

of bone and gland cases may be June. Those who could not be there midwife (through town extension When Mr. Corinaldi started laid at its door

Going person sent their greetings by Mrs. Jack proposes to resume lay-address the Assembly, he went on Alarming as milk carried diseases telegram on the notice boarding out of dead bodies at a moder

speaking for so long that other mem- may sound, they can be avoided. School Yard a message from ther

ate charge 18, Union-street, Wicko?

bers awaiting their turn had The first step is cleanliness. As milk Marquis of Linlithgow Viceroy of Hope you like the change, lady! (a) Forgotten what it was is secreted, it is sterile. Cows, as India, was displayed. It ran:~~

a rule, do not succumb to the germs

that make us take to our beds. They “Eton-enses octo extremis Indis

about.

(b) Forgotten what they wanted to say about it.

There was no stopping Mr. Corî-

can drink typhoid, dysentery and vicerege praeside felicissime: coen-Loud Voices cholera organisms, and still produce antes praeposito Collegio Etonae

My pet hate or rather one of naldí once he had started. pure milk and cream. Even so, salutem humillime devotissime.”*****

fem is people, who alk in loud saThen someone had a bright idea. germs are bound to enter milk in There is a strong rumour to the strident tones: You meet these its handling. Bacteria are first in-effect that the following telegram rests everywhere In restaurants, in He suggested that

Bill should troduced from the teats of a cow was sent in reply.

the street, on the forty-there's no be introduced to the sembly limit-

gth of getting away from these human ing the tore come from the milker's Hands,

es, except in ary:particular cases, to ten minutes.

7buld settle

the stable dust, flecks of dirt, bits of straw, flies or utensils and bot

tleg.

* The cow's answering moo is non- committal. The inspector, scrut ises the premises for himself, and

tion urgent. All here baffled. Hon-

Linlithgow Delhi. Send transla- bluebottles.

our at stake. Keep it clean. Eton

if these come up to specified stand- Correction ards of cleanliness, He still turns to the pasteurisation plant.

toked on our twilling

And their conversation, which

great in vanity and stupidity itɗis in volume.

From a Home paper:-

milk

we must demand that

ured uf male Incour issue of last week-

stated that the meeting of the Liter-mon

we

these yapping shallow- as publie mal- distance non stop rers fun thèm fairly

But

swere wrong

naturally, opposed

messure

to spen

it.

speech

ithdrawn

get

to

the Bill com- enable th

en-with its norm