Death Germs in Milk.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3761, 21 April 1908, Page 2

Death Germs in Milk.

It is generally held that frequently cows may be tuberculous without yielding tuberculous milk. And in these columns a few days ago we quoted an article from the British journal "Health," to the effect that only one cow in two hundred gave forth the germs in milk. The same - journal, however, added that the milk of this one cow mixed with the milk of 200 others would make the whole exceedingly dangerous to life. Emphasis is now given to the warning of danger by a declaration of the Medical Officer of Birmingham that 14 samples of milk out of 100 examined in Birmingham contained the germs of tuberculosis. If it be true, as recently stated, that 50 per cent of a line of skim milk fed pigs in a Northern district, '3 of New Zealand were found to be tuberculous, it must be apparent that there is danger lurking even in the milk pails of New Zealand.—Exchange.