MILK STERILISED BY ELECTRICITY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 238, 2 July 1920, Page 8

MILK STERILISED BY ELECTRICITY

DISEASE MICROBES DESTROYED,

Professor J. Martin Beattie and Professor H. C. Lewis, bacteriologists, of Liverpool University, : hfive discovered a means of sterilising. milk 'by electricity which I tho Medical Hcscarch Committeo (National Health reports to be "a practical methods of which the use on,a large scale becomes now a problem for closcr financial and administrative.examination." . Tho. two professors havo been experimenting since 1914, with tho result that they have succeeded in destroying by electricity , the two chief dangerous species of microbes commonly found in milk. These are the bacillus of tuberculosis, which is the cause' of the death of great numbers of children, and the "bacillus coli communis," an agent in the production of appendicitis, kidney disease, and summer cnolera of children. Milk so treated keeps good for/several days at ordinary r6om temperature. "Tho taste," says tho report, "is not altered, and the properties are' not in any way impaired.. The milk can be described accurately as 'raw milk' free from pathogenic (disease-producing) bacteria. Children take it very readily, even those who object to heat-sterilised milk." hero July T.