TUBERCULOUS MILK.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 419, 30 January 1909, Page 3

TUBERCULOUS MILK.

DOES PASTEURISATION CURE 2-: REMEDY/ ; | r.T It does .not-necessarily ; foUow ihat'becaiiße. milk happens to be labelled'"pasteurised'',-it-is therefore .free;- from' live; get-.ms Vof; iilberculosis. Pasteturisation; ; if not,; well /conducted,'.: may leave the ;tuberculOßi3 ;germs..vinjniviTed.j :,- In the! course of a [paper, read-by Mr.tAlec; • Wilson, of' B'elvoir-Bark,. Belfast, the following extraot.-frbniia.boflkby frofessqrrJenjeii'j.; of tho Royal Veterinary, fccillege, Copenhagen,; nas read;—-"Lactic.acid/forming bactef.iaV.in: milk ara:killed:.byrp.astenrising, ; while-certain;; harmless.; bacteria, _,many-bapteria;, of/piitre-. faction, .and, the.s spore forming '.b"acpli YiTe. F6r,!thisireason -.pastieurised-inilk J. seV donii Bonre,v.ijbtiti. ! gradually putre.fi6s.- •■.Pas-; teunsatipn, jnpurs \; expense;,;-{therefore, ■■ i -,the • milk costs .-more.,; To. a; certain.degree! tourisationMnay fc .cdnce'al>a ,'talhted. condition' which exists-befp're/'BeaHng.v-."•/'■■v'-i.'Oiider such ciroumstances 1 6ne.:ca'nnot tellby.the,ap- : pearanccfp^taste.of-milk thatiVis'damaged, and that it , contains <the pfpduct's' of' decomposition 1 of-the' albumen or: possibly 'even'atoxic '. substances.' ..The';increase'in''the.'numbtir.of ; strongly ihfecfed: samples occurs icoinoidently,' ith the.'equipment; of.inaiiy.'e.stablißhme'nts.: for tho r 'production :6ft'pasteurised 'milk,', and. ,Vs' to make; it .'Certain'! that., the; whole .quantity ;of. milk v, as. .-reilly.'-- heated ;_to';; the ■ reguir.ed!, tem-! ?erature^!]Qndoub!,tedly t r iJ would be necessary or the 'majority: kept under comprehensive';-'.tftnisi,.! and. ,'ejcpensi.vf. control b'y.-the'..healthi.authorit'ieS, , 'which.''even• th.cn .; : .PrpfessprJensen's'fopnclilsion from'actualiexperionco.at Copenhig'e'iijjs stated^as'.follow.st^-.'i'.W-hen.we compare'thei'idvantages. dnd disadvantages,: it Mill be.'faund;.'ihati:thcre,;isVserious:i , doubt -.whether..iti;is^!advisableitoiendeavpur;,to .ob-' markotimilk.,";; , Mii;i.Wils6njx'!agree, "absblnte!ly;i-mth!;.this..opinibn;iand;;l-.think;;.it .might,;even L ;;be. -it would , ..he?ex-. '.b^4irigly'7diffioult''eisei;...^)':' , get'.- , cleahlinoss^- l .the|fa_rmias : .lpng':as r thefarmer; ' th i ese;,prpcessW,-;itp < beygjinerally, .ado'ptei.'iii' •this ■'■cbnh'try,i:ii , iwpnldjb , e. ; :'■eq«ivalont I '>jib-pu.&'. :tingViivp.reiniuin^;iiESn , -\,di^y.-vi , .ahd'-;methpds;'in';the'-byre'.' : ,'There, .arey other ■ sons'jor objecting/to" , the' wide r use. of !3hyi heat ;p'rbcess-!"a's..aS':means::.of ; Jsupply;;-;One ','is ;that: of.':'.all< baiteria : the, tubercle.iiaoillus ;is the. most , difficult.'to kill hy. heaCand. as', it is! tKe« most "talked 'pi. ' microbe.' in; /Ireland' -^to-day)' , : :is /Well-; to7;rei member! is-evidpntly 'conducted' frheh.-..upon!.a;Jarge!-scale,,;.assists. us Terynrttl^' , '^-r^"^^