1938-04-09 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL APRIL 9, 1938.

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PASTEURISATION OF MILK Doctor Argues Against Need In Hong Kong

Communal Depots Under Supervision Suggested

together.

milk

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necessary. The milking and bottling be blamed on to mills, but to the fact could then be made under the most that it has been secondarily infected hygienic and modern conditions, and while it was being illegally tampered the public will then be ensured a with. The new cover for the healthy, clean, and natural milk-sup- bottles should prevent a similar occur ply without submitting it to the ex-rence. It is maintained that our milk pense and disadvantages of an arti-is one of the healthiest, and it could ficial and often inefficient process. be made doubly so by adopting the It will be interesting to know that system of supervised milking and whereas in most countries the produc bottling above suggested. tion of milk ran into walions of gal. If in spite of everything else, milk lons per day, in Hong Kong the ap is still considered by some as danger- proximate total daily output isous, then the best and surest way of Sir,-As opinions on the question of these germs. But this is no reason pasteurisation are in many instances for selecting milk as the sole victim 1,689 gallons for all the dairies put making it "safe" is by boiling it. The As one large dairy is al only advantage that pasteurisation" adopted from other countries, it is for pasteurisation seeing that any ready voluntarily in pasteurising its has over "boiling" is that it does not only natural that one should analyse other article of food or drink stands milk, compulsory pasteurisation when make it so difficult to digest. carefully the reasons underlying those the same chance of being similarly in enforced will only be effective against then, this only applies to infants un- opinions, and compare them to those fected. In view of the very rigid the ridiculously insignificant number der one year of age, seeing that older obtaining in Hong Kong.

bye-laws governing the dairies and of 489 gallons of milk! Pasteurisa-children and adults can digest boiled The main reasons that call for pas-milk-shops in this Colony, our milk tion is a form of treatment for milk, milk quite well. As the number of teurisation of fresh milk in some is in point of fact less exposed to in- and just as it is wrong to treat indi-infants fed on fresh cows milk is ex- fection than many other articles of viduals with drugs when they are not tremely small fin Hong Kong poor 1. The great prevalence of the diet which are not so carefully safe, so it is wrong to treat milk when children are fed on human or tinned purely "milk-borne diseases among; guarded.

it is not diseased. As it is the object milk, better class children are fed on the population, the chief of which is

Another reason which is crying of scientific and rational medicine. to powdered milk, in the majority of in- bovine tuberculosis with its high in-out loud for compulsory pasteurisa- keep an individual fit and in good stances) pasteurisation, which was in- fantile. mortality. This dreadful di- tion in some other countries, is found health without recourse to drugs and veited for the special purpose of steri sease is epidemic in Exope and it in the very unhygienic practice of sell-other artificial measures, so also ilising milk for the benefit of infants, should be clearly understood that it ing the milk "loose" or "unbottled it should be our policy to employ every cannot even be advocated on is preeminently a disease of the cow This practice as it can well be imagin-means available to present to the ground. which is transmitted to human beings ed exposes the milk to all sorts of in- community a healthy, clean and pare Although the dairies may be easily through its milk. It is intrinsically fection, and what with the "primary" milk-supply, without subjecting it to compelled to BUY pasteurising "milk-borne" and owing to the fact inherent infection, added to the pos- an artificial process. It is right to plant, it is quite another and more that fresh milk is in these countries sibility of a "secondary infection therefore contend that pasteurisation difficult matter to compel them to: very cheap and extensively drunk, the from other sources, it is only natural should not be made a permanentlyUSE it. We shall then be faced with disease becomes more widespread and that some opinion should be in favour compulsory measure. Under special the problem of dairymen relaxing” therefore assumes greater importance of compulsory pasteurisation. Fur-circumstances as in the presence of an in the ordinary hygienic measures, It is necessary that one should not thermore, by the adoption of this mea- epidemic, it could be enforced for a coupled with the fear that pasteurisa- confuse this type of tuberculosis which sure, the authorities see in it an op- time, but as far as one is aware, notion has not been faithfully or ef- is known as "bovine" with the "hu, portunity of forcing the milk into epidemic has been caused "primarily ficiently earried out. man" type which is so common i bottles, for pasteurisation would be through milk Hong Kong. "Bovine" tuberculosis, useless unless the milk is bottled after-

countries are:----

cannot exist in a population that does!

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not drink fresh cows milk, and we 3. Mention must be made on the know that the majority of our tuber- culous cases are too poor to afford it subject of "pooling of the milk. Ow Furthermore 75% of our cows are tag to the large number of small dair- ies spread all over the country, and to berculin-tested and if necessary af

the highly commercialised state of milch-cows could be made to undergo the milk industry, dairy men in most the test. There is therefore no dan countries have adopted the system of ger from this source so far as

our selling their milk wholesale" to some milk is concerned. With regard to company or other, who in turn retails dysentery, typhoid, cholera etc., these it to the consumer. Now this system are not strictly speaking milk-borne" although very convenient in itself, is but are known as "water-borne", and

a great source of annoyance to the milk contaminated by dirty water or public health authorities. In the pre- other infected

material may CALY

sence of an epidemic, it is with the greatest of difficulty that the source of infection can be traced to any par ticular food or drink. When this has i at last been done, and if the infection " is traced down to milk, one can but im- agine the disappointment of the health authorities to find that they are un- able to follow up the infection to its source owing to the fact that the milk has been "pooled:" It is only natur-

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THE ROAD BACK"

Sir. -Referring to the article in your paper the other day in regard to the banning of our pictureal, therefore, that they should fight hard for, compulsory pasteurisation "Road Back" in Canton, I would under such circumstances. Now "pool- like to give you the following ex-ing of the milk is not practiced in planation, which I would greatly Hong Kong. appreciate if you would make known.

4. In most democratic countries the legislative machinery will have perforce to be slow and cumbersome. I have just returned from Can-Laws enforcing the "bottling" of milk. #loose" ton after having investigated the the prohibition of sale of case The German Consulate's ob- milk, the tuberculin testing of milch- jection to the picture being shown cows etc, etc, cannot be easily pass ed. It is only natural therefore that was purely on instruction from milk-reformers, knowing of the dif-

their Foreign Department in Ber-ficulty they have to contend with,

lin.

However, after an interview, should ask for compulsory pasteurisa- with the Consul General I had the tion which would cover "at one go" all the other reforms so urgently needed. picture privately shown and, after

This state of affairs is in marked having agreed to make a few cuts, contrast to those obtaining in this Co- the German Consul did not have my lony. If necessary, any piece of le- further objection to the picture it is therefore unnecessary to

gislation could be easily passed, and take being shown in Canton.

refuge in compulsory pasteurisation, Another objection was made by when there are so many other facili General Lee Oi Wan, Commanding ties for en ung a healthy and clean Officer of the 4th. Route Army. I milk-supply without it.

It should be noted however, in pass- again had the picture privately ing, that it is not in accordance with shown for this gentleman together the best democratic traditions to pre with The Chief of Police. The vent an individual to drink whatever Chief of the Public Safety Bureau kind of milk he pleases. Legislation and the Chief of Social Affairs. The along this line savours like prohibi tion". Pasteurisation should be en- above-named gentlemen had a meet-tirely optional and a person be left ing yesterday afternoon, at which it the choice of drinking the kind of was decided, not to ban the picture, milk that he likes best. but to withdraw it from screening for the time being, until the Japanese conflict has ceased.

Yours truly, Universal Picture Corp. of Chin

5. Lastly but not the least, comes the difficulty of adquately controlling Sino-the extremely large number of dairies which are scattered all over the length and breadth of the countries in Europe and America.

The Annual Dinner of the Royal Artillery Association (Hong Kong Branch) will be held in the Hotel Cecil on Friday, 29th April, at 8:00 pm. Particulars may be obt from RSM J. W. Reid, Telephos

Military

re HQ 150.

By contrast there exists a total number of less than 30 dairies, in the whole of this Colony With the ex- ception of the one at Pokfulum, the rest are clumped together in two groups-one in Hong Kong (Tai- Hang) and another in Kowloon (Dia- mond-Hill).

The last dysentery epidemic cannot

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Yours faithfully,

R. A. de Castro Basto.

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Advantage could be taken of this by THE MINERAL FOOD FOR BETTER HEALTH instituting in each of bese localities

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supervision

Of all ChemŠENS

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