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Show FISHBEIN URGES tASTEURIZATlOW Dr. Morris Fishbein, famed medical med-ical editor and journalist, whose daily column appears In The Salt Lake Telegram, ended his brief visit here Saturday with the admo-nation admo-nation that "for health protection all milk should be boiled or pasteui lied. " He did not refer directly to the Salt Lake City health department's milk, but said his remark applied to all communities. As a result of the visit, the city health department claimed encouragement encour-agement In its move to require pasteurisation pas-teurisation of all milk distributed here. Dr. T. J. Howells, city health commissioner, said he lunched with Dr. Fishbein and that the latter told him: "Even certified milk now Is being pasteurised, and no matter how effective ef-fective the inspection may be at its source or how msny well-trained men are engaged in that Inspection, raw milk carries certain definite dangers to public health." "Dr. Fishbein said that tuberculosis, tubercu-losis, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, summer complaint, sep- . Iit " r-rnhehly infant tile paralysis may be carried by Infected In-fected milk," Dr. Howells said. The city health officer also quoted Dr. Fishbein as saying that per capita consumption of milk in Salt Lake City should be Increased, that the per capita now ia nine-tenths of a pint a day, while the U. S. public health service maintains that one pint per capita a day should be average. Addresses 8. L. flub Dr. Fishbein departed Saturday ; for San Francisco after entertaining entertain-ing more than 300 members of the Bonneville Knife and Fork club and their partners at a dinner lecture at the-Newhouse hotel Friday evening. Taking "Food Fads and Follies" as his premise. Dr. Fishbein sugar- coated medical advice with an abundance abun-dance of humor to win enthusiastic approval from his audience. Diet is not the cause of cancer, the , speaker asserted. He paid particular attention to the , "faddish notion" that white bread j causes cancer, and that savages never had the disease because they ate whole grain only. "Cancer is an old man's disease, j and savages never lived long enough to contract It," Dr. Fishbein said. Criticises -Slim' Dicta As regards dieting to be smartly slim. Dr. Fishbein reported "such diets leave one so hungry he eats back all be lost aa soon as he stops the dieting." "It was recently a fad to force spinach down children's throats to get sand into their systems." the doctor continued, "but now broccoli, illiglttmate child of cabbage and cauliflower, ia more popular." For Salt Lakers with that morn- ing-after feeling. Dr. Fishbein warned. "There Is only one good hangover cure. That's to eliminate the cause: go to bed and stay there." Dr. Fishbein, as editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is credited with doing perhaps more thsn any other American Amer-ican to expose different phases of medical quackery. FAREWELL PLANNED A farewell testimonial for Grace . Love land, who will leave soon for I the New England L. D. S. mission. ; will be held at the First ward I I chapel. Eighth East and Eighth South streets, at i:J0 p. m. Sunday. |