MILK SUPPLY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 56, 7 March 1930, Page 8

MILK SUPPLY

(To the Editor.) Sir, —There is owe important aspect of this late- delivery controversy, not mentioned by, your previous correspondents, upon which the mothers of little babies feel very strongly. It is not safe to have to give a baby its two morning feeds on the previous day's milk, when,"as "Yule Street Resident" says, that milk is absolutely bad by the afternoon of the second day. We scald the milk and keep it in a cool, airy safe, and I dare an officer of the Milk Department to drink a glass of it on the afternoon of the second day. I always understood that the reason the City Council took over the milk service was to ensure a safe and unadulterated supply, particularly for- the children, and it is certainly "up to" them to put on a few "more delivery men so that we get the milk before 10.30 and 11 a.m. and the babies don't have to drink stale milk. There's enough work and anxiety in rearing the wee things without that unnecessary worry. —I am, etc., •;• . ■■■.■■:■■ •■ •■• ■■ EOSENEATH MOTHER.

"The statement made in Monday's "Evening Post" by 'Yule Street Resident,' that the nrilk supplied by tho "Wellington City Corporation 'does not turn sour—it goes bad,' is the reason why practically the whole of the medical profession condemn pasteurised milk and urge those who. seek their advice to get clean, fresh' milk . instead," writes W. Stuart Wilson."Prominent members of the Government Health Department have assured ,nic that thej strongly- urged the Christchurch City Corporation not to pasteurise their milk. I also have their assurance that it is unfair to children and invalids to pasteurise milk; in other words, it means the ruination of our best food. - I have interviewed ,^he Milk Committee of tho Wellington City, Corporation, and pointed out the damage they are doing. I have challenged Mr. Bennett, chairman of the Milk Committee, again and again, but all to no purpose." The correspondend suggests that tho public should take strong and firm action to impress on the city authorities the need of improving the' supply. '