Show THE DINGER DANGER IN MILK the question whether dangerous diseases are communicated through milk is one of great importance to the general public and particularly to cities depending for their supply from various sources the subject has been carefully investigated lor for years under the auspices of the massachusetts society for the promotion of agriculture and the report of the results of this investigation is now published the inquiry was conducted so as to ascertain whether cows with udders adders could infect with their milk and also whether animals with ap patently parent ly healthy udders adders but having tuberculosis elsewhere could comman oats the disease to COD consumers SUmers of the milk the second was the principal i line of inquiry because with regard to the first one the facts already known were sufficient to establish the danger of infection As to the experiments and the results obtained wo toe report shows that alter after examinations of milk and cream from thirty aix different cows bacilli were found in toe the milk from twelve animals anima lr these were all suffering from tuberculosis although their adders udders were free from the disease eighty eight guinea pigs were inoculated with milk from fifteen cows and tuberculosis developed in twelve oases cases six out of the fifteen cows communicated munica ted the disease experiments in feeding milk were made upon rabbits bits pigs and calves with the result that tour four percent per cent of the rabbits fifty per cent of the pigs aud and thirty three per cent of the calves became infected an examination of the general milk supply of boston revealed the fact that of thirty three samples from various places tubercle bacilli were found once and that three rabbits out of inoculated with milk from mixed sources became infected the inference is made vie milk supply of any large city may be supposed to be ba a source of dancer to a large extent circulars were then sent to medical meu men and veterinarians asking them to state whether they knew of any cases of human beings having been infected with tuberculosis through the use of milk in answer to these circulars physicians replied in the negative while eleven reported cases basea of infection by cows milk and eight know knew of oases cases of infection of infants by the mother fourteen veterinarians reported positive oases cases of infection and nine suspicious ones this investigation places the matter on a basis beyond doubt and proves proven that too much attention cannot be given by boards of health to the milk supply of the he cities |