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Show Pasteurization Of Milk Is Necessary The argument that pasteurization Is unnecessary in the country where milk goes directly from the producer pro-ducer to the consumer is based upon a popular Impression which experience exper-ience has proved to be entirely fallacious, fal-lacious, according to the State Department De-partment of Health. It Is desirable of course that milk be fresh, but the slight delay Incident to shipping It a reasonable distance to the pasteurizing plant is of little moment, mo-ment, providing that It Is good clean milk to start with, Is kept cold, and otherwise properly handled. A more Important consideration Is that of transmission of Infection. Health Department Records of milk-borne milk-borne outbreaks of communicable diseases indicate that In this country coun-try In the last twenty years, a majority ma-jority of outbreaks occurred primarily primar-ily outside of cities, and In approximately approx-imately 90 per cent, the sources of Infection were on the farms. Naturally the farms are In the country, It should therefore, be clear that proximity to the farm affords af-fords no protection. In fact for example, ex-ample, a typhoid carrier or a diseased dis-eased cow on the farm infects the milk. The more promptly and directly di-rectly the consumer gets the milk the greater Is the likelihood of the germs still being active and virulent and of the consumer becoming Infected. In-fected. As science and Industry have progressed pro-gressed In other phases of human betterment, so have they progressed progress-ed In this important safeguard to health. Today, pasteurization stands out as a fundamental necessity in our complex human society. |