Show Pasteurized Milk Good For Babies And Invalids The idea that children invalids do better on raw milk was biased this th weeK weer t by y Dr Welby W Bigelow acting state health commissioner when he said The promoting growth capacity of heated milk plus the supplementary diet received by bythe bythe the average American child of often often ten months to six years is 11 not very much less than the growth growth- promoting capacity of raw milk received by the same child under un der similar circumstances As AI his evidence Dr Bigelow I cited a U S public health sur sur- sur survey surd vey made in 1932 which ed cd children between the age of ten months and six years about half hall of whom had ed only heated he ted milk m the other half hall having received raw milk for more than the latter half hall of their lives No significant difference was found between the average weight and heights heigh of the child child- children children ren in the two groups The parents of children re re- re receiving receiving predominantly raw milk reported a higher incidence of scarlet fever intes totes Unal disorders and rickets than did the parents of the children receiving heated milk mUk only The evidence on this point speaks for itself itsell Dr Bigelow concluded |