STERILISED MILK,

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2164, 1 June 1914, Page 4

STERILISED MILK,

Sir,—Air. Hill's expert iidviee in tha nM.ii.aftement of milk transit, which yoti pibirshed in Monday's paper wo-uld he much mt.'io valuable if ho, hi common vvjt-h, say, .sorae ff our Governnvont o.fiacials, understood tho truo - nature of ■tho article under discussion. 110 writes of "cooBoe" and "pasteurisatioit," which aria tlte worst forms of tampering with the mills that could possibly be devised. Mills, according to lato authorities, is a. "living-" tiling, lilju.our blood, and, as in blood., battles may he foughtovit jiv it—'liat-ivo bactßTia. figlvting alien, etc. I understand that certain samit'<riums in Africa have discovered that there is loss consumiptioii where the milk is taken unt.nnpared with ami fresh from our fo&twymothcr, the .flow, even tlunigh it had been fouml latci' that there existed cJi.scs of tube-reulosis among, tho herds, than in those places where the milk' was pasteurised. Iced and pasteurised milk arc what experts in Germany have cfllletl "slain'' srilk. and it is tlio vital principal of ti'i© milk which is necessary to the growth of otir infants. Moiliers feed and feed their babies, and wonder why they still starts, and why there- Is tin? suggestion, of tind&rminki-g going «»• m their vitality all the time. Li Dr. CaiT-oll's Ohild Study Assoeia-. tsoii, in Sydisev, pore milk, straight fnwn the cow, uutampered with, cxcciit that it may ho nwro Or less diluted, is •Used a-S tho most important factor of l;is treatment, .and in sufficient quantities even, a form of anti-town to the blood, with the. isiost suc-cessM tesaH-s.

The milk in bottles, n-ed mul foaled, which Mr. ftill woillfl perhaps lite to see introduced here, I bsve sampled in Melbourne, and found uivs-atisiactory, because, as- tho waraj air dispels the frigidity, the milk, instead of attaining a genuine "souMicss," beeatnes putrid and. like any other dead body, throws off an odour of decay, unpleasant, to say "the least, I therefore preferred to brave the probable dangers of dirt or sour milk from the dairies. Sour milk may be unpleasant, but it is not necessarily' unhealthy, that is. according to Metcluiifcoif. Dr. Vincent, who is a colleague of Mr, Robert ilond, in experiments now being conducted in England wit'li -irjilk as a food in tlw Itifaiixts'' Hospital and ; tin? research laboratory built by Mr. Mow!, says: "The wan wh.o sterilises coo.j milk is a fool, and the man who,, sterilises had mills is a rogue. The ■iire&tart m.-istiukcj indftedj- tlio most ghastly disaster that had ever ecenrrtd hi this country was when the medical profession st-arted the advocacy of cooked iwilk. It was absolutely ftiipsssiblo to obtain a stariKscd milk that was -fit for consumption. The pares* iiiflk, fortmMitelv. contained a -consider: able number of bacteria, wlifeli v;«vo of vital importance : to the infant-, because they mmiufafftttfocl 1-aotfe acid from the fiugnt- an' tin)- milk. What hud saved l-mbios fed on bailed milk was thai the •mothers had iwt earricd out the instruc* tlous of the fetors, "While raw. milk never putrified, hu-t----uiHlerweni a certain decicnixisitinti, boiled milk did puirif.v, and it was this process of putrefaction in the infant's digestive organs- wluelv Wits so dangeroiis. espccifdlv in sumir.er " If, .instead of sterilising tlio milk,, our Oovermwnt offieia's went more to the root of the m.liter by -turmna their ;n----succ&i-t to the .management of, aiid tile toiS'Cjaiels litiscieutifu: breedinc of the cos, so'.iii' real result miglit follow. Oil® would suppose tbni. the cow should be allowed to tie fallow occasionally, mid that the crjlf should be alloweid 'a little more of the saw ftwtl which Natiirix Hi-rended for it, Disease might t.h'-'i. have a few attacks at its sotirce. Sir, 1 rtmik this tiuestion of the sterilising of miik, whether by cooling,

heating) or electricity is sufficiently important to have it weft ventilated in your columns.—!. am, etc.) UC