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MILK AND ITS HYGIENIC RELATIONS 



(B) Nine children were fed periodically with raw and boiled 

 milk. 



Finkelstein concludes that ' no definite distinction between the 

 results obtained by feeding upon raw and boiled milk respectively, 

 could be detected.' If these figures of Finkelstein's are examined 

 a little further, it is seen that in Group I (A) there is a balance in 

 favour of the boiled milk, whereas in the other groups there is a 

 balance which is slightly in favour of the raw milk. 



Plantenga (1910) treated children with digestive troubles with 

 both raw and boiled milk, and from a study of the weight-curves 

 was unable to find any evidence of the superiority of either method 

 of feeding, over the other. 



Park and Holt, in the course of a most valuable investigation, 

 carried out in New York upon the feeding of infants in tenement 

 dwellings, made special observations upon approximately equal 

 groups of infants fed upon raw and pasteurised milk. The 

 inquiry lasted over the summers of two successive years, being 

 commenced each year at the beginning of June and lasting 

 till the end of the summer, and the results are given in the 

 table below. The milk was used modified for both groups and 



was of good quality when used. The average number of bacteria 



