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INDEX 



Bacillus tuberculosis, discovery of, 



91. 

 Bacillus tuberculosis, bovine and 



human varieties of, 126-129. 

 Bacillus tuberculosis found in 



cow's milk, 92. 

 Bacteria : 



Behring, Professor E. von, on 



dangers to infants from, 124. 

 Cause decomposition of milk, 



89, 93, 171. 

 Cause gastro-intestinal trou- 

 bles, 112, 164, 165, 166. 

 Description of, 90. 

 Found in intestines of infants, 



134, 164. 

 How examined, 163-164. 

 How they get into milk, 93-98, 



99-100. 

 Lactic acid, 253-259. 

 Milk in udder free from, 87. 

 Millions of, in the air, 97. 

 More in milk than in sewage, 



107, 111, 247. 

 Not indigenous to milk, 89. 

 Number of, in certified milk, 



113. 

 Number of, in Rochester milk, 



113. 

 Number of, permitted under 



bacteriological standards, 



113-115. 

 Pasteurization and, 250-253. 

 Pathogenic varieties of, 93. 

 Poisonous, resisted by anti- 

 bodies, 72-73. 

 Hate of increase of, 98, 104-106. 

 Small proportion of, dangerous, 



110-112, 117. 

 Some kinds of, harmless, 93. 

 Temperature in which they 



thrive, 98, 108. 

 Useful kinds of, 93. 

 Vast numbers of, in milk, 105, 



107, 109, 111, 116. 

 Ballard, Dr., 39. 



Bang, Professor Gustav, 92, 136, 



252, 270. 

 Battehsea : 

 Establishment of infants' milk 



depot, 197. 

 Modified milk formula used in, 



198. 

 Mothers induced to weigh 



babies, 200. 

 Statistics of infant mortality in, 



226. 

 Sterilized milk sold, 203-204, 

 205. 

 Beauvais, Goutte de Lait, 194. 

 Beef, nutritional value of, 63-64. 

 Behring, Professor E. von, 112, 



113, 124, 136 n. 

 Belgium, decline of birth-rate in, 8. 

 Belgium, Lailerie Matemelles in, 



192. 

 Bell, Dr. J. Finley, 60-61. 

 Belleville Dispensary, Paris, 191. 

 Bhir and Bhir, Messrs., 40. 

 Birmingham, England, 39, 184. 

 Birth-rate, Decline op : 

 Among Americans, 9, 10. 

 Among AustraUans, 3, 6, 7, 8. 

 Among leisured classes, 6, 10, 



11-13. 

 Among people of British stock 



in Canada, 5, 6. 

 Causes of, 12-13. 

 In eighteen different countries 



(table), 8. 

 In Prance, 4, 7, 8. 

 In Greece, 10-11. 

 In Rome, 11-12. 

 (See also Race suicide.) 

 BoUinger, Dr., 130. 

 Booker, Dr., 164. 

 Boston, Mass., has bacteriological 



standard, 113-115. 

 Bottles, milk in, foul, 149. 

 Bradford : 



Infants' milk depots in, 197, 



201. 

 Partial mimicipalization of milk 

 supply, 201-202. 



