TUBERCULOSIS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 February 1914, Page 3

TUBERCULOSIS

Sir,- In your loader of yesterday on tuberculosis Mr Robert Aloud is stated to have safd that "it is curious that the oclvocatcs of sterilization had overlooked butter, which was every whit as likely to be contaminated as milk." lie is wrong , , sir; (juite wrong! if butter is pure, free from milk and all oilier foreign substances, if is perfectly safe. The bacillus of tuberculosis cannot live in pure butter-fat or pure sugar, any more than a man can live on pure starch. When referring to butter, Mr Mom! evidently bad in mind the mi Ikblended -.irlirlo sold so largely in England. If people use only the first-class article they need not be afraid of' it.---Yours, etc.,