MILK AS A SOURCE OLDISEASE.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4994, 14 January 1885, Page 2

MILK AS A SOURCE OLDISEASE.

The spread of infectious diseases through the agency of milk constituted one of the snbjects of discussion at a recenjb conference held at tho late Health Exhibition. Dr Thursfield said the con* sumption of unboiled milk might literally be said to bring the consumer into close connection with animal from which it was drawn, and always to some extent, and often most intimately, with the family and domestic arrangements of at least one household, and frequently two. The won* der was that not so many but so few bad consequence had hitherto been traced to milk. If there was one fact* which more than another had. been uniformly brought out in the records of milk epidemics it was that consumers of boiled milk had, as a rule, escaped ; and the same fact had been noted in outbreaks of an American epizootic, which was readily transmissable to man, known as "the milk-sickness." To boil milk might be said, for practical purposes, to confer immunity from infec* tion by its means. Professor de Chaument believed that a frequent way in which enteric fever was conveyed by milk was the adulteration of it with impure water.