MILK AS A FOOD

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 460, 30 June 1937, Page 6

MILK AS A FOOD

POSSIBILITY OF INFECTION Risk Reduced By Mixing Press Association —Copyright. Wellington, June 29. Interesting comments on tuberculosis as it affects human beings and animals were made by Dr. T. R. Stout, addressing the. New Zealand branch of the Veterinary Association to-day. Dr. Stout, who is president of the New Zealand branch of the 8.M.A., referred to the important part a pure milk supply played in maintaining the health of the community, and in this connection said that mixing the miik of many cows and many herds lessened the risk, ahd where milk was pasteurised' as well as mixed therisk must be non-existent. He also felt that all cows from which milk was utilised for human consumption should be periodically subjected to tuberculin tests. If this were carried out he felt that bovine tuberculosis could be eliminated in New Zealand and human tuberculosis much ameliorated. He mentioned also "that there were other diseases spread by means of milk of which pasteurisation acted as a preventive.