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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1938.

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speech leaves the emphasis

By A Medical

Correspondent

The Urban Council is udder, contains germs that may value, destroying the vitamins

nicans or an-

affect

on

The supporters of the method answering the latter ques- seriously

consumers. and making milk less digestible. point to the diseases that would tion in its campaign to Secondly, it may become con- As Lord Carnworth recently said have been prevented if pas- by anyone who it remains a good beverage but teurisation were compulsory. Dr. A. de Basto'a criticism of persuade us that milk is taminated the proposed legislation for one of the most valuable of handles it on its way from the it is not milk. There is no doubt The most important caused by

dairy to the home.

that if there were no other food an infected cow is tuberculosis. compulsory pastcurisation of

human foods, only when it is

The obvious and ideal way of for us to eat milk would be bet- Of course, many of us can imbibe

and preventing milk-borne disease is ter taken raw. reconstituted milk, which he pasteurised.

carry tuberculosis germs To these' objections those who about with us all our lives with- raised at the Urban District

In spite of the enormous in to make sure that the supplies Council meeting yesterday, was crease in milk drinking at pre- come from healthy herds in want pasteurisation to be made out ill-effect. But it is estimat

sent, the consumption is far less hygienic surroundings, and that compulsory for all milk answer ed that nearly 100 deaths every timely and instructive, even

in this Colony than in other every precaution is taken that no that it will take many years to week in Hongkong, mostly in though, apparently, it made countries. Here, on an average, germ should enter the milk once make every milk-producing herd young children, are due to tuber- little or no impression on the we each drink only half a pint a it has been drawn.

free from tuberculosis alone. A cle bacillus, much of which may convictions of his colleagues, day. Food experts say that The alternative is to treat all periodic examination, however be conveyed in milk or its pro- none of whom was disposed to while this may be enough for a milk as potentially infected, and often it is made, commonly fails ducts. It is the commonest support his amendments. Never-healthy adult children must have to heat it enough to kill the to reveal disease in a cow that is cause of tuberculosis of bones, Bolling alters the giving grossly infected milk. joints, glands and the digestive theless, the debate enabled the at least one to two pints, while germs.

expectant and nursing mothers flavour and to some extent the About one-fifteenth of all raw tract. public to gain a quickened ap-ought not to be satisfied with composition. The cleansing can, milk and some 10 per cent. of preciation and knowledge of less than two pints a day. In however, be achieved without dairy cows may harbour the what precisely is reconstituted the campaign against under- raising the temperature as high tubercle bacillus.

пте other' BUT there milk, and of the various issues nourishment increased consump- as boiling point. The most com- There is no reason why clean-

dangers. A single which have made pasteurisation tion of milk must play a very monly used method is to raise liness should not also be com- dairyman who suffers from sore such a highly controversial sub-important part.

the temperature of the milk to pulsory, as it is if the milk is to throat, or who is a typhoid, dy- ject.

145 deg. Fahrenheit, let it stay be "certified." Tests of samples sentery, or diphtheria carrier, there for half an hour, and to can easily reveal slovenly me may be responsible for a large BUT this vital food must cool it rapidly. This is "pas- thods. Though a proportion of epidemic.

be free from infec- teurising" it.

the vitamins are destroyed an

The British committee experiment carried out by the cattle diseases in 1934 gave a National Institute for Research list of outbreaks at Home known THE position is much in Dairying showed that a pint to the Ministry of Health to be better than it was. of pasteurised milk is only due to human contamination of For example, the bulk of Hong- slightly less nutritious than a milk which included 30 epide- kong's milk supply-if not all pint of untreated milk.

mics of typhold, 14 of dysentery, is now pasteurised.

Vitamin C is the most affected and 23 of scarlet fever. In 1929 Those who oppose pasteurisa- and only a fifth disappears, an one epidemic alone affected 1,000 the "little man", struggling in stituents of fresh milk, certain tion do so mainly on the ground amount important only to child- families, with 65 deaths, all competition with the heavily-vitamins are lost, but apparently that it will allow producers to ren, which can be easily supplied traceable to infected milk. Even capitalised concerns, must be neither the medical profession neglect hygienic precautions, in a little orange juice. The first-class, clean milk is not free put out of business, as he can- nor the scientists are satisfied They might rely on the process flavour cannot be very bad if from this risk without pas- not afford the expensive plant that this essentially depreciates to destroy the effects of sloven- about 90 per cent. of the milk tourisation, Hongkong's dyscu- needed for scientific and legal the milk as a vitalizing food. ly methods. Another objection in Hongkong and the large cities tery epidemic last year is too pasteurisation; 3, Pasteurisa- More atriking, because the of- is that it impairs the nutritive is pasteurised without complaint. recent to need comment. It was tion in Hongkong does notificial_reply was less convincing, automatically guarantee the was Dr. Basto's query of Hong- elimination of an infected milk kong's possession of workers supply, simply because the pro-with the required highly techni- cess calls for expert knowledge çal knowledge of the pasteuris-

IT should be no of its mechanics, as well as ex-ing process, or of experts

necessary to sterilise pert supervision; 4, Is Hong-capable of supervising and in- DURING several years acquaintance away. If there are £109 to be des our milk before we drink it than

to ensure with the fishermen of the North- posited, the sherman

his it

is to boil our wator. But kong in a position to satisfy specting the work such requirements?

freedom of contamination be- East I have made observations and bicycle and goes to an inland village there are three important dif

stories regarding their ten miles away, and puts £50 into the tween the time the milk is taken collected

bank there. Then he cycles on to ferences: milk has an animal habits as Onanciers. From his own from the cow until its delivery point of view, first and foremost, the another village, the same distance source

liable to discaso; it is to the purchaser. Dr. Selwyn-fisherman is strictly honest, but, as farther on, and there he leaves the continually being handled; and ing point, the majority will be inclined to adopt Mr. R. Clarke, the Director of Medical subsequent incidents will reveal, remaining £50 R. Todd's

Services, only generalised when that point of view is peculiarly his The two sums are usually deposited germs find it a good place for view that it

on the same day, and in due course breeding. For the drinking of he said that health officers down.

milk to be entirely During a religious revival, one man they will on the same day, be with- untreated better to play

the on

exist in the Colony who have went into a shop and told the shop-drawn in order that the interests may safe side,

more on what he failed to prove tion and by one rather than the points he mere other made safe, and at once. or less successfully scored. Dr. There are two main

ways in Basto's chief contentions were: which milk can become danger- 1, Why trouble to pasteurise ous. If the cow is diseased the milk constituents which have milk, even before it has left the alrendy been made sterile? 2, By enforcing this pasteurisation

If at first sight logic appear

to bolster Dr. Basto's open

is

technique of pasteurisation as

Fishermen's Money

you will

owe

bo

with

takes

the banker.

the

infection during the time the tory Inspectorate who is "not the fishermanathetic environment. the duty of making or evading the

a safeguard against possible

milk constituents were separ

an illiterate coolie, but a man from the who had received special train-

When

no

js of

"The Lord knows."

due to infected milk.

more

and, while going been specially trained for the keeper that he had "put on the new compared and to ensure that safe-and partial success is use through the heating process for reconstituting milk to adopt the purpose of supervising pasteuri- man." "Glad to hear it," said the bankers are taking no unscrupulous less an enormous organisation

"Perhaps advantage of the client. sation, while apparently, only man behind the counter:

y me the money you form of debt, to be paid only when

Rents are particularly obnoxious needed, with local and health authorities, veterinary surgeons, one man is known to the Sani-me"

that's the old man," said

retired the hastily and

there is no help for it. Generally and farmers closely co-operating. There is a shortage to-day of possession of money the payment falls upon the daherman's veterinary surgeons, and even ated. There might have been ing in the conduct of a pasteuri-average fisherman mends freely, house, whose fertilly of common without this it would take years

sometimes extravagantly, and if of excuse and lofty rebuke is convey-

0 more point to Dr. Busto's argument had he demonstrated sation plant". Such assurances recent account is presented at the ed by: "You'll get your rent when for a perfect organisation to put do not compel a very deep con-time of plenty, it is likely to be paid the Lord gles't to us." "And when milk on the same level as water that in the process of pustouris-

viction that tho

without demur. But if the account may that be?" Sanitary

for purity, to say nothing of the ing reconstituted milk, valuable

of long standing it is reckoned a

human element and the carrier food qualities were lost. But Department is in a position to hardship to have to pay it at all, fault to Fajury

guarantee 100 per cent, effective and the hardship Krowa with the attempt was made to show pasteurisation, and the Colony length of credit. He does not usually of the fisherman's mind. A baker pensive, but it is safe. Until Other incidents show the worldny problem. Pasteurisation is ex- this, and presumably there are will feel very much happier if, tender payment of an account, and it fold a friend of mine that he once tuberculosis and the other trans- no such effects.

the Director of is therefore prudent to present it to had an account of £50 against a missible bovine diseases and when,

falierman, on nccount spread over eradicated there seems no other This is of vital concern to the Medical Services can offer such him when he is in funds,

many years. The baker had con- of reconstituted

pas-n guarantee.

tinued to give credit in the hope that way of ensuring a pure and safe

those raised by the Urban Urban District Council appears bank it takes something in the nature be

be paid up.

Meanwhile neither children Council's proposed legislation, is to be justified in its insistence of an earthquake to dislodge 11 from of far more importance than upon compulsory pasteurisation is safe resting. He may withdraw called on him to ask for a loan of £20. nor adults should stop drinking

illogicality

it to buy a new bont or to have a It was naturally refused. The fisher-milk. But parents should in- alleged

of of reconstituted milk. It has share in a new bost, but that is about man pressed for the loan until the quire of their milk distributors pasteurisation, or the possible admitted the legality of such at all.

baker lost patience with him and told elimination of the small in- commodity and it has now dono A creditor who pressing for him that he himself was in sienite whether their supply is "tuber- dividual competitor. Mr. Todd, its beat to assure that users of money finds it very difficult to dis- for money, "But you maun fend it culln tested" or "pasteurised;" In his explanation of the new the milk will be safeguarded as it is certainly not likely to be in the "Look at the amount a' breed I buy the purity of the supply the milk cover, where the money is deposlied to me," salt, the customer indignantly, and wherever there is doubt of legislation, admitted that in the are those who use fresh milk, nearest bunk. It is more probably the ye” process of separating the con- -S.A.G.

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