PASTEURISED MILK

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26847, 27 September 1952, Page 3

PASTEURISED MILK

Sir,—Added to Christchurch experience of declining production, and of doubtful quality milk, by Whet stretch of the imagination con. it be assumed that if Lyttelton set up a treatment house it would be any more successful? It is premature to discuss it until it is discovered who and what law sets the machinery in motion to compel obedience. Who would Lyttelton appoint as experienced milk controllers? A town clerk for secretary £250. a chief inspector £250. a chairman of milk company £250. a chairman of Milk Board £250. a liaison officer to call the "right” principals together. All these appointments would be necessary to run the job to fit in with political control of the combined forces of Labour and National Party. The Lyttelton council has refused to be bulldozed up to now. May it continue to seek information. —Yours, etc., H. BLISS. September 28, 1952.

Sir, —Reference to Ashburton, scarlet fever cases 56, non-pulmonary tuberculosis 19; Oamaru 5 and 3 cases respectively. That these cases hud relation to milk is pure assumption. "The Times,” July 27, 1945, reporting proceedings of the British Medical Association. in effect said: “It may be argued” that only one-third of all nonpulmonary tuberculosis are due to bpvine origin on this basis, and it is entirely conjectural, the figure is 5 7-10 cases of non-pulmonary tuberculosis for Ashburton. Wheelers “Handbook of Medicine”; “Cows and swine are said to suffer from a disease which may produce scarlet fever in man, but Savage regards the condition in cows as a local infection with organisms of human origin, super added to a bovine disease which is jiot dangerous to man." The figures suggest that the Ashburton water supply should be examined. All food handlers should be medically examined every three months as in the United States.—Yours, etc., JOHN BURBRIDGE. September 17, 1952. Sir,—l am afraid there are too many people making money out of the present pasteurised milk system for u» to get back a free milk supply. It looks as if the only thing.to be done, ?a a s r ts* c t to y as the pasteurised milk addon: keeps until the next day. Unfortunately, those with interests in pasteurised mi’k probably have shares in the dried milk companies, too, —Yours, etc., FRESH MILK. September 26, 1852. [John Burbridge mky briefly reply; otherwise, this correspondence » closed.—Ed.. "The Press.”]