LONDON'S MILK.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 185, 30 April 1908, Page 2

LONDON'S MILK.

Dr. Collingridgej medical officer .of > health for,the city of...London, in, a report .just issued, says'that.out of 24samples.of London milk collected, two were; fomul'-by. animal; tests .to'contain the tubercle bacilli. Thus • apparently 8.3-per cent, ,of London's ..milk ; is capable .of' causing tuberculosis \in 'human brings. " Of,'the'-. regaining; samples 37.5 per cent, wore found to be more-or less.,dirty. Mr. 'Sidney ; Villar, F.R.C.V.S., -coMulting veterinary' surgeon to .the British Dairy;. Farmers'. Association, in a recent .lecture .condemning' the ; agitation, for the. enforce-, ; .ment'.of the tuberculin test, ...gave extraordinary reason: that it . ; was generally admitted-that 30 per cent, of .the, dairy..cows, of Britain would be found to be tuberculous,, and to'eliminate: them, would be too expensive ! ■ -;Tho fact■ that probably thousands .of• British'lives are annually sacrificed to diseased "milk- does not seem to . have weighed , with him ; in the matter. : \ ? '.-•'.. .;. The spread of : influenza is now attributed ■to mill:. Professor' Albert Smith,: M.1.C.5., '.of the Analytical Laboratory,. Browriswood' .'Park', K.', writes:—".While.making a'bacteriological examination of milk,-1 found in it : tho bacilli of influenza. , I then made; other. experiments, ' which. show ithat milk'-■ is a splendid mediunvfor-the production' of, tho germ. -1 should : - while ,tho epidemio, is still ramnant in-our midst that-all milkshould be iiasteuriSed,- that is, raising: tho t temperature" to This .. heat is ,quite siifncientto destroy the iufluenza germ, without destroying the'.nutritive value, of tho milk as food, as sterilising does." 0 • ■.. ' y. 1 - •• * ,;<v • ' ''•, " ■ - NO CASE, ■ i■ ■■ V i • ■ ' ' This little' incident l '. irill'''Berhaps; have, a bearing uriori the new niilk..,;r<3gulatibns of our qwn Health Department St. HelensV Corporation official tiurcha'sed; ; a sample of alleged adulterated or watered/milk. • and it -. was fpund «n analysis to . <$ivtain 37 per csnt. df■ added' waters /The ToSiji Clerk,; how. ever, informed the corporation l ill- thoface' of'recent Court of AppqarMdpisiolis, no . /prpsecutipn cbiild be: legally sustained, be-,'; .the' inspector . asked, 1 not'* new. milk," bjJt 'simply for: 11 milk," NrachVfras a , fatal,.error. v ''.V/ '