PURE MILK

Northern Advocate, 5 July 1928, Page 6

PURE MILK

DR. ARTHUR’S PROPOSAL,

A NEW SLOGAN. SYDNEY, This Day. The Minister for Health (Dr Arthur' said that a pure milk supply was as necessary for the welfare of a community as a pure water supply. To ensure this, it was essential that all milk for distribution in Sydney should be pasteurised, chilled, and bottled by machinery, with the possible sources of contamination reduced to a minimum, “I was greatly impressed,” said Dr Arthur, “by a statement made by Dr Heiser, of the Rockefeller Institute, that bone tuberculosis in children has almost disappeared in certain cities in America where pasteurisation of milk has been made compulsory. But the tubercle bacillus is not the only one conveyed by milk. The germs of typhoid and scarlet fevers, diphtheria, and gastro-eutcritis find it an excellent breeding ground. “A striking example of this conveyance is given by the medical officer for health in Brisbane. In one month nineteen cases of diphtheria were reported, and it was found that all the infected households were supplied bv one milk vendor, and that the carter who delivered the milk was a virulent carrier of the diphtheric germ. Immediately he was isolated the eases of diphtheria ceased. I hope to bo able ito prevent the possibility of such occurrences in the near future. .Someone has just given me another admirable slogan; ‘Stint the milk and stint the child.’ But we must see that the milk we give the child does not carry tuberculosis or diphtheria to it.”