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Show MILK AND DISEASE By J. E. Greaves At the Paris Exposition in 1900, one of the most significant of all the food exhibits was that of American dairy products, particularly of milk and cream. European authorities were astonished; as-tonished; they simply could not understand un-derstand how it was possible for milk and cream, raw and in the natural Btate to be shipped from America and be in good condition upon its arrival and to remain pure and sweet as mill; fresh drawn from the cow. The milk was free from bacteria. But how about the milk that sourg so quickly and the souring we brame to the weather, particularly the thun. derstorms, overlooking the real culprit cul-prit the little microorganism which enters en-ters from not quite sanitary buckets, from the dirty stable, from the un-kept un-kept cow and 'possibly from the unclean un-clean liands of the milker. Then the milk is not cooled quickly and the bacteria bac-teria multiply as only bacteria can. More chance for contamination, and more time for growtfli are offered when transferred to the vender's bottles bot-tles and so It goes on until sometime When It reaches the consumer it contains con-tains as many microorganisms as does sewerage. But it is not the number alone that count. There may be millions mil-lions of bacteria present and these harmless, but if one of the organisms which causes typhoid and diptheria found its way into the milk tills also would multiply. And while '.in individual individ-ual may receive one or a dozen of these organisms without being injured, net so with thousands, which would develop lifter they had grown in milk f r sever.U hours. Then we hear of th it dread disease consumption, which claims so many victims each year. In 1 SIX)' Professor Bang, of Copenhagen, demonstrated the presence w the germs of this disease di-sease In the milk of apparently healthy cows. It is possible for us to receive tliesir organisms with the 11.;"-. but worst of all they are fed to little children who science has shown arc much more susceptible tv this disease tthan is thv' adult. Nov.- can any one feel entirely blameless when a little chiM is caused to fill an early gi-uve. due to some one's carelessness or thoughtlessness. NO! For science has shown us how to protect the milk from the germs and even taught us how to differentiate between the healthy and sick cow. And it is a very conservative conserva-tive estimate when we state that tho infant mortality from tuberculosis alone can be out twenty perycent if tre will hut heed the teaching oj cienee. |