5. Pasteurized milk must be sold iit- bottles and not as 

 "loose" store milk, 



7. Muiiiei|>al or Grovemment control should prevent 

 fraud as. cited above. 



Striking demosrstrations by Nathan Straiw, the New 

 York philaatliropist, oi the effieao}? of iiLs method of saving 

 babies' lives, have aroused -gTeat interest at the German 

 Imperial Health Office in Berlin. 



In Saadhaueen, near Ileidelburg, Mr. Straus estab- 

 lished an infant milk depot and began supplying Pastem'- 

 ized milk in February, 1908. There was. an immediate re- 

 duction in the death rate. At the end of the first year it 

 was found that the mortality among childi-en- under two' 

 years old had been reduced from an average of 46 per cent, 

 for the preceding five yeai*s to lerss than 20 per cent. 



Last' spring when Mr. Straus went to Germany for a 

 vacation, he extended the work of his Sandhausen depot 

 so as to supply Pasteurized milk to' all the babies of the 

 village, either by selling it at a nominal rate or by giving ib 

 away. The re-sult was that there were no deaths of babies 

 in Sandhausen in July, the hottest month' of the summer, 

 although in past years there have been six or seven deaths 

 in this month each year. 



The record of a July without a single death of a child 

 under two years, old has; been obtained without any other 

 change in the conditions of the babies than the supplymg 

 of Pastemnzed milk instead of raw milk. 



Another work uistituted by Mr. Strau&s has attracted 

 the attention of the Health Office. At Karlsruhe he pre. 

 sented a Pasteurization plant to the Baden Women's So- 

 ciety, and it has been operated under the patronage of the 

 Dowager Grand Duchess. 



In Berlin the death rate among babies was from 26 to 

 27 per cent, prior to the inauguration of this work. About 

 one-fifth of the babies ol the city l^ave been supplied with 

 the Pasteurized milk since 1908, and the death rate has 

 fallen to between l§ and 17 pe^r cejpt,. , while amon.g the 



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