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If milk which has been pas- On the other hand in 1937, 576 teurised in premises in one part cases of dysentery with 317 deaths of the town is transported to other and 308 cases of diphtheria were premises in another part of the registered in these territories. No town in order to be alled intone can say that sore throats are containers, there is obviously riak a rarity. of contamination: to reduce this risk it is required that the Alling of all containers be carried out, by machinery or by some other Council. means approved by the only in the premises in which the milk was pasteurised.
I submit that it is clear that milk-borne epidemies are very tar trom being unknown.
Every public health authority would be the first to admit the
CABLE SENT TO SYDNEY
BATSMAN SOUGHT
1.
TO REPLACE”, BARNES
Sydney, April 26. Don Bradmat, captain, and Mr. Jeanes, manager of the Australian Test cricketers," who are now England, cabled the Board Control from London a medical report stating that Sidney Barnes, who bröke a bone in bis
of
wrist
during the voyage, will be unable to play before July, *
possibility of other foods being in fected with the germs of disease. BOTTLES CLEANSED It is, however, common knowledge
It is understood that Bradman The bottles must be thoroughly that milk provides an ideal mediuro and Mr. Jeanes have asked for a cleansed and sterilized with steam in which organisms can live and
batsman to replace, Earnes. boiling water and must be multiply. Bread and cakes can, of The Board of Control will be closed with a tightly atting disc and course, be infected but the germs considering the matter within the covered with an outer cover over- for typhoid, for example, have nonext few days-(Reuter). lapping the lip of and securely fas-means of multiplying under such tened to the bottle. The bottle must conditions and tend to die cut in to be be marked with the name of the time. (Cholera happens dairyman in whose dairy the milk one of the few disease germs that was pasteurised and bottled, and can actually increase in numbers with the word "Pasteurized."
in damp bread and cakes). This
Von Blomberg
Japan Bound
Amsterdam, April 26. Field Marshal Werner von Biom-
I might add that it is not con- does not mean, however, that every form of possible step should not be taken. sidered likely that any container other than the familiar to protect all foodstuffs from in- glass bottle will be used in Hong rection. The implication is that berr. former German Minister for Kong: should other forms of con-milk constitutes a special danger Defence, accompanied by his wife, tainer appear the by-laws will and can easily be rendered safe by has arrived li Belawan, in North have to be amended.
pasteurisation or boiling:
MERITS COMPARED
Boiling of milk is, of course, a
Sumatra, according to a messag received here from Medan.
He is reported to have informed
a representative of a Sumatran
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Swatow
The last point, and an impor- tant one from the view-point of the existing dairies, is the date on which these new by-laws shall very simple process that can easily newspaper that he intends to visit Manila The date sug-be carried out in the home. It has Japan-(Transocean). come into force.
A-certain disadvantages. however. gested is January 1st. 1939.
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suming that this Couneli makes namely, that it presupposes and I would appeal for the new by-laws today, and that knowledge of the possibilities of animous vote.
In conclusion. let me quate from they are approved by the Legisla-milk-borne disease in the consimer
Council next month, the not tollbe expected in a largely "The Milk Problem" a report com-
* Direct dairies will then have seven clear literate population), and that it piled by the. Health Organisation
24th April. months in which to make the ar-affects the taste, digestibility and of the League of Nations:--
"It is our considered and em- for com- value of 'certain constitutents in rangements necessary
phatic opinion that all quid Japan and Shanghai. the milk. pllance with the by-laws.
milk for human consumption Tientsin Pastearisation. POINTS CLEARED
the other
should be adequately pasteurised Straits The Vice-Chairman. Hon. Dr. hand, destroys the germs of the
or bolled," Selwyn-Clarke said that he would diseases mentioned hardly affects
Dr. R. A de Castro Basto said Tientsin and Swatow. like to clear up a few misconcep- the taste or digestibility at all and
has no influence on the amount that he was in agreement with the Amoy tions. He said, in part,
The only evidence which can be of vitamin A cr carotene, content. motion before the Cornell but said Japan.
borine reduces by an unmeasured amount that these steps should have been psed in support of the theory of origin is that derived the vitamin B complex and, only put into effect before. The Council from statistics bearing on the type reduces the quantity of vitamin C might thus have escaped some of the epidemics. He was not against of pathological lesion met with as present by about one fifth.
Since the adoption of compul-pasteurization, which was a very milk-borne good thing, but he knew very lew pasteurisation, outbreaks of disease have become countries where pasteurisation is There were other a thing of the past in the areas compulsory.
methods of producing healthful affected.
milk without pasteurisation.
a result of infection with this type
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In order to achieve the object in
The following members attended the meeting:Mr. R. R. Todd ed tuberculosis of bovine origin view it is, of course, necessary for (Chairman), Hon. Dr. P. 8. Selwyn- through the consumption of milk the pasteurisation process to be Clarke, Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson, and over 60,000 died of the dia- really effective and it would be Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, Hon. Mr. case. According to Sir Walker waste of time to pasteurise milk T. H. King, Mr. F. C. Hall, Dr. R. Savage, between 1,700 and 2.000 if provision did not exist for the A de Castro Basto, Mr. I. C. F. deaths occur annually in children prevention of pollution of milk be- Bellamy, Mr. A. el Arculli. Dr. 8. bovine tween the process and its arrival N. Chau," Mr. W. N. Thomas Tam. from Great Britain
consumer. Mr. B. Wong Tape, Mr. Tang Shiu- tuberculosis conveyed in milk or at the house of the
Pre 4,028 The Counch will be blocking this kin. Mr. J. Watson (Secretary), and milk products. There deaths in Hong Kong from tuber channel of infection by passing Mr. Im Ping-Iseung (Assistant Sec- culosis in 1937. and although the the by-laws now under discussion retary). type was not determined, it is per- missible to assume, for the reasons given in the report of the Govern- ment Bacteriologist, that a certain proportion may have been due to the bovine variety.
OTHER FORMS
NON-INTERVENTION BUREAU
TO BE SUSPENDED
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London, April 26. Union's refusal to continue paying Immediately after the opening the subscription has resulted in "But laying aside the question of bovine tuberculosis altogether, a of the session of the Non-Inter-serious financial difficulties for the
He then vast body of incontestable evidence vention Committee yesterday, the bureau.
announced that the of other secretary of the Non-Intervention evists of the existence
would be liquidated at bureau pointed out that the Soviet bureau forms of milk-borne disease.
the earliest possible moment if the arrears of £80,000 pounds owed by various Governments for subscrip- tion payments were not paid before
It is estimated that over 500
cases of undulant fever occur ca WAR SECRETARY
year. This is due to an infection causing à condition called contagi
ous abortion in cows and result in a.
long and weary illness in human beings. The infection is present
ARRIVES HOME the end of this month.
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In 20 per cent of all cows in Eng-Will Report To The the USA, where it affects 32 out Cabinet On His Tour
land and it is. very widespread in
London, April 25. The War Secretary, Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, arrived in London from Paris this morning.
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THURSDAY
The Soviet delegate, M. Maisky.
Government was unwilling to re- sume the payments before the the question of withdrawal of volunteers was effectively' cleared. The German, Italian and Bri- tish delegates on the other hand declared that their governments He will report to the Cabinet on were willing to pay the arrears up his tour of inspection of the de- to December of last year. As to fences of Malta, his visit to Home the payment of the arrears since I have mentioned three diseases and his conversations with the December, they would approach in cattle which are transmitted Premier and the Chief of Staff of their governments for further in- from the animal to man by way of France-(Benter).
structions (Transocean).
once more stressed that the Soviet samshul and Wuchew.
of the 48 States. Its presence has been definitely diagnosed in Hong Kong cattle by Professor Davis.
Mastitis is yet another disease in cows which may give rise to the disastrous outbreak of infection on humans."
mik
Now I come to other diseases which are also, conveyed in 'mlik but which are the result of con- tamination of milk after it leaves the udder, either from soiled Angers, droplets of spit, dust or files, or from dirty utensils and apparatus or polluted water.
In Bournemouth for example, fr 1938 718 cases of typhold fever and 61 death were due to milk-borne infection. It may be of interest to note that 464 cases of typhoid were notided in Hong Kong in 1937, so it is th us arid carriers of the germs who, handle milk may give rise to milk-borne epidemies.
WALDYSENTERYNA Evidence is available in other parts of the world of the germs of dysentery, diphtheria, epidemic sore throat and scarlet fever being conveyed through human con- tamination of milk. It is quite true that scarlet fever la rare in Hong Kong; only eight cases were nosided in 1935.
Young China Being Trained
A small band of boys, one of many
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training in Canton,
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Tai Lee............... Kongmoon swatow, Foochow and Tientsin....Kanchow... Shanghal and Japan...
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den, Egypt and Europe via Mar selles-due Marselles. 27th May. Rawalpindi.
Shanghai
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