FROM THE PRACTICAL VIEWPOINT 



which is the safest raw milk possible to be ob- 

 tained, should be pasteurized before being used for 

 infant feeding. This thought has been strength- 

 ened by information of comparatively recent dis- 

 covery, that milk may become infected through 

 coming in contact with persons who harbor dis- 

 ease germs, but who are not in any way ill. These 

 persons are therefore perfectly innocent of any 

 knowledge that they are a source of infection to 

 milk, and thus a dangerous and insidious menace 

 to the milk consumer. It has been found that cer- 

 tain persons may be, and not infrequently are, in- 

 fected with typhoid bacilli, without they themselves 

 knowing that they are thus infected. Such per- 

 sons are known as typhoid carriers. Other persons 

 harbor the germs of diphtheria in mouth and 

 throat, without having any symptoms of the dis- 

 ease whatever. Such persons may handle milk and 

 unwittingly infect it. 



Within the last few years there have been in 

 different cities epidemics of septic sore throat. 

 These have occurred in Boston, Baltimore, Chi- 

 cago, etc. In Boston in 1911 several thousand 

 persons were made ill by milk coming from a 

 farm where the milk was exceptionally well cared 



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