ELECTRICALLY TREATED MILK

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 121, 23 May 1914, Page 6

ELECTRICALLY TREATED MILK

IMPORTANT REPORTS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 17th April. Four reports from experts on the electrical treatment of milk have been received by the Liverpool Health Committee, and they show :—: — 1. The keeping properties of the elec-trically-treated milk are increased. * 2. There is a great reduction in the total number of bacteria of all kinds. 3. The bacillus, coli and its allies are absent. Consequently the reports confirmed the results of the observations by the local Health Department. \ The reports have been prepared by the Liverpool Bacteriologist (Dr. J. M. Beattie) and Professors Sheridan Delephine (Public Health Laboratory, Manchester).' James Ritchie (Royal Collego of Physicians' Laboratory, Edinburgh;, and G. Sim& Woodhead (Pathological Laboratory, Cambridge). Dr. Beattie summarised his results thus :—"A very considerable advance has been made in rendering milk free from disease-producing bacteria without at the same time impairing the chemical constitution of the milk, but absolute sterilisation has not been generally accomplished. It may be a matter for argument whether there is any advantage in obtaining absolute sterility. Personally, I am convinced that the bacteria which -remain, both .from their number and from their nature, are not harmful." Dr. Beattie is well known in New Zealand. He was educated at Otago University.

"A _ Chat About Churchwardens" is the title of an entertaining article by Frederick Sherlock in the April number of the Sunday at Home. Mr. Sherlock recalls some amusing experiences. Here is one. A lady came early ono Sunday evening and lodged a complaint with me that she had lost her watch at tho morning service. "Where were you sitting?" "Close by the pulpit!" "Are you sure you lost your watch in the church?" "Oh, yes! Quite'sure. I remember unfastening it from my wrist and putting it on the book ledge!" "Well," I said, "I will go and ask the verger." Mr. Sherlock did so, but he had seen no watch, and said that at tho afternoon service the church had been packed with school children; and ho also added that "a watch is a watch, sir, and a boy is a boy, &ir, an' I need say no more, sir!" 1 reported to the aggrieved parishioner, continues Mr. Sherlock, that the watch had not been seen, and took her name and address, and promised to make enquiries from the school teachers. With this she was satisfied, and went to her seat. Pre> sently the evening service commenced, and when the/ time came for the first hymn the rector, who knew nothing of tho incident, gave me a thrill which I shall never forget by announcing in piercing tones, "Hymn 362—Lord, her watch thy Church is keeping!" Tho new post oflico building, erected at Brooklyn, is now open continuously botwcOn 9 a in, and 5^ p.m. on all week days for tho transaction of all post office business. Tho second term of the F.H.S. Kindergarten and Preparatory School, corner of Pirio and Austin streets, will commonco on Monday. Tho second term of tho private _ school (preparatory a.nd kindergarten) in tho Presbyterian Churohrooin, Kolburne, will commouoo on Monday,