MILK AND DISEASE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5502, 29 February 1896, Page 6

MILK AND DISEASE.

It maybe suggested that a more satisfactory plan of securing purity of the milk used for human consumption, by way of alternative to inspection of dairies, milk shops and utensils, would be to have the milk thoroughly sterilised before it is oifered for sale. Tho value of the method of sterilising milk introduced by Pasteur, and called "Pasteurisation," has been so well demonstrated of late in America and elsewhere that it is in some quarters believed to be only a question of time when all milk supplied for public consumption will require to be sterilised. Milk is the aliment of aliments, for it contains all that is necessary to support the body, but it is very apt to become infected with microbes of disease. A useful little steriliser on the Pasteur principle, suiiable for private use, has been introduced by M. L'Hote, chemist, pf 16, Rue CKanoinesse, Paris, and is kno-vvn as "Le Tutelaire." It is the invention pi M. Constant, an. engineer,- and, heats the milk to a temperature of 75 deg. Centigrade (167 deg. Fahrenheit), which is sufficient to Mil: noxious microbes such as those of scarlet fever and /Consumption, altering or "killing" the milk. ,