A NEW TERROR

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1629, 6 August 1887, Page 3

A NEW TERROR

♦ \ Somebody m always adding a new hygienic terror to life says the "Speotator. " This time ft ia Dr Klein, who delivered aleoture at tho Royal Institution, showing that we may catjh acarlet fever from milk which has not been polluted directly or Indirectly *by the fever m the human subject. Oows, he alleges, are liable to acarlet fever, though m them the diaoaße ia not serious ; but if we catch it from them thro gh their milk, It becomes serious In us. Careful official itqulry appears to prove that this has been repeatedly the case, »nd that an epidemic of scarlet fever among cows, not caught m any way from human beings, may be followed by a burst of ecarlet fever among the customer* of the faro*. Even condensed milk of the cheaper kinds will convey tho Infection ; Dr Klein has found nrcrobes m tins of milk Idenrical with the microbes detected m Fcarlet fever patients. Milk should be heated. up, Dr Klein says, to 85c, at which temperature the microbes die— c fact which suggests that tho«e who drink their tea very hot are wi»e men. , ..