Health and Temperance

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 21, 1889

Health and Temperance.

CONTAMINATED MILK.

IN discussing the subject of contaminated food, one of our exchanges says:—

Doubtless a vast deal of mischief is occasioned by the use of milk contaminated with disease. Typhoid fever has many times been traced to this source. It is entirely possible that typhoid fever is often produced in some other way than by the use of drinking-water contaminated with the germs of this disease. The infection may be received directly from cows. While it may not be probable that the germs of the disease escape from the body of an infected animal through the milk, the milk may nevertheless become infected through the medium of small particles of excreta, portions of the discharges of the animal, which fall into the milk from the udder during the process of milking. The remedies for this danger are obvious. Observe the same care in relation to the drinking-water of cows as that used by human beings, and see that the udder and adjacent parts are washed clean before milking.