BANISHING THE PLAGUES 



teurized the milk is cooled by being allowed to pour 

 down in miniature cataracts over successive pipes, 

 the upper ones of which contain cool water, and the 

 lower ones brine almost at a freezing temperature. 

 The milk is thus chilled in a few minutes and is im- 

 mediately placed in sterilized bottles. 



Some interesting observations were recently made 

 by the New York Health Department in co-operation 

 with the Rockefeller Institute, the subjects being 500 

 babies in the New York Tenements. According to 

 the observations, as reported by Dr. Wm. H. Park, 

 Director of the Research Laboratory of the Health 

 Department, 2 per cent, of babies using certified 

 raw milk died, as did 8 per cent, of babies using good 

 raw milk, and 14 per cent, of babies using grocery 

 store milk; in addition to which 66 per cent, of the 

 babies using grocery store milk became ill and re- 

 quired medical attention. 



Meantime not a single baby died of the group 

 using pasteurized milk. 



Dr. Park emphasizes the fact that mother's milk 

 is the best milk for a baby, but his observations show 

 that pasteurized milk is next best. According to 

 Mr. Hewitt, it is believed by the French chemists 

 who are testing the new method of sterilizing milk 

 with the ultra violet rays that milk purified by this 

 method will be even more wholesome than pasteur- 

 ized milk. To appreciate the importance of the 

 subject, it is only necessary to reflect that bacterial 

 diseases of infancy, the major part of which have 

 their inception in the ingestion of infected milk, con- 

 stitute the deadliest of all plagues to which the modern 



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