CONTKOL OF BACTERIAL DISEASES 245 



Uactkiual Ti.sts of Milk rRoDUCKD in Kklton Daiimkr 

 (Bactkkia I'Kk Cubic Ckntimetek) 



500,000 5,000 



tuberculosis, typhoid, dysent«*iv, (li]>htlii*ria. tonsillitis, cholera, and thi- 

 virus of scarlet fever. This does not make the milk any cleaner, nor drx-s 

 it kill tlie more resistant hacteria, hut it it is dangerous, it rtiiders 

 it safe. 



Flies, vermin, house pets as transmitters of contact in- 

 fections. After the lnuiiaii hand coine other active ovriii 

 carriers, and aniono- these the lionse flv ]»r(>])ahlv stands 

 first not onlv in transmitting' sferins (A' tihli and disease to 

 foods ])nt in combining air-carriage \\iih contact. '1 his prol)- 

 h'm has l)een treatecl in a previons cha})ter. Roadies and rats 

 and mice slionhl he iniiversallv recooniziMl as t(»o lihliv to 

 eat with, and shonhl be comph'tely exterminate(l, ahmg with 

 the ilies, from every honseliohl. Cats, on account of their 

 rd'ten intimate contact with chihb-en, liave been responsible 

 for innumerable infections, especially of di[)litheria. Since 

 this germ attacks cats virulently, tliev assume the doubh' rol«' 

 of irresponsible patients and mcclianical carriers in the family. 



1 This dairy, on April 3, lia<l a count of 8.000.000. 



-' This count was made March 30. 



^ Due to Kelton ilairynicn vnislni: <lust l>y swoepimr at niilkiuL'^ time. 



