STERILISED MILK

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 May 1914, Page 6

STERILISED MILK

DOCTORS AT VARIANCE

"The man who sterilises good milk is a fool, and the man who sterilises bad milk is a rogue," declared Dr Vincent at the Cheshire Milk Producers' annual dinner at Crewe. Dr. Vincent is a colleague of Mr Robert Mond in experiments now being conducted in England with milk as a food in the infants' hospital and the research laboratory built and equipped and maintained entirely by Mr Mond.

The greatest mistake, indeed, the most ghastly disaster that had ever occurred in this country, declared Dr Vincent, was when the medical profession started the advocacy of cooked milk. It was absolutely impossible to obtain a sterilised milk that was fit for consumption. The purest milk, fortunately, contained a considerable number of bacteria which were qf vital inipo.rtanaa k> the infant, because they manufactured lactic acid from the sugar in the milk. What had saved babies fed on boiled milk was that the mother had not carried out the instructions of the doctors

While raw milk never putrifiod, but mulerwent a certain la,ciic deco.mpositign, boiled milk did putrefy, and it was this process of putrefection in the infants' digestive organs which was so dangerous, especially in the summer,