IMPURE MILK.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 767, 16 March 1910, Page 4

IMPURE MILK.

Sir,—lt is high time respectable journals used some degree of reasonable discrimination in disseminating threadbare theories,, especially when they are as ruthless to the reader as they are cheap in their effort at competentness. Your' article under the; above heading on Saturday is a Rip Van Winkleyan re-hash of an exploded idea. It is utterly disingenuous in its principal element, that is, in regard to the particular organism capable of the. marvellous multiplication, which is tho very ono professed to be discarded from the calculation. - "Referring to the diseases which can be spread by ; germ-infected milk, Dr. Kay Menzies. states that more than 200 typhoid epidemics, '.seventy scarlet fever epiuemics, and forty' diphtheria epidemics have been traced to' this scourge of contagion." There is no pretence at authenticity in this spread-eagle accusation, and no attempt ,at comparison with tho epidemics carried by tho water we drink and the air we breathe, which have to be contaminated.first before milk comes into requisition as the very questionable conveyer at second-hand.—i am, etc., . HENRY BODLEY. 'March 12, 1910. ,