Show microbes Mic robes la in the food microbe free oysters even if we could get them are not to be desired according in t to a report by professor W A herdman of university collego college liverpool our milk our bread and cheese our ham sandwiches and other kinds of food are teeming with germs most of them harmless so far as we krow but some borne of them may be just as barl as any that can be in shellfish if wo we were to insist on breathing filtered air rand md eating nothing but sterile food washed down with antiseptic drinks wi we should probably die of starvation or something worse while deprecating extreme measures by sanitary reformers however er professor herdman recommends inspection spec tion of shellfish Eb grounds to insure their practical freedom from sewage he would also have oysters kept alive in running water for a short time as experiments esperi ments show that the living am animal in clean water scon gets rid of any disease germs with which it may be infected |