ELECTEICALY-TREATED MILK.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14975, 23 May 1914, Page 15

ELECTEICALY-TREATED MILK.

IMPOETANT EEPORTS. (?KOH OCR OTT.V COBBISrO>T>ENT.) LONDON, April 17. Four reports from experts on tho electrical treatment of jniJk have bean received by the Liverpool Health Committee, and they chow: — 1. The beeping properties of the elec-tricaliy-tr«ated milfe arc increased. 2. There is a great reduction in ( tho total ntlinber of bacteria of all kinds. 3. The bacillus coli aud its allies are absent. Consequently the reports confimiiod tho results oi' the obsei-vations by the local hoaith dopartment. The reports have been prepared by tho Liverpool Bacteriologist (Dr. J. M. Beattie). and Professors Sheridan Detephine (Public Health Laboratory, Manchester), James Ilitchio (Royal College of Physicians , Laboratory. Edinburgh), atid G. 6ims Woodhead (PathoLaboratory, Cambridge). Dr. Beattie cummarised his results thus: ;"A very considerable advance hafi boen made in rendering milk free from disease-producing bacteria- without at tho earao time impairing tho chemical constitution of the milk, but absolute sterilisation has not been generally accomplished. It may be a matter for argument whether there is ar.y 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.. Beattio is ■well-known in New Zealand. He was educated at Otsgo University.