Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1919 — BETTER MILK FOR LONDON [ARTICLE]

BETTER MILK FOR LONDON

Society Appeals for Funds to Carry on Campaign for Legal Betterment of City's Supply. London—Contrasting the milk supply of London with the cleaner and more healthful milk compelled by law in New York city, the National Clean Milk society is appealing for funds to carry on a campaign for legal milk betterment here. - ==- The appeal says that while all New York dairy herds must be- free from tubercular cattle, between 8 and 9 per cent of the milk supplied in London county contains “living tubercle." While’Grade A milk in New York must not contain more than 30,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter at any time before reaching the consumer, the average London sample “contains not less than 3.000,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter.” The society says American milk is bottled before it is shipped, and remarks that “the" conduct of the dairy has become a science which is practically unknown in this country to the trade, the public or any but an extremely small number of public health officials."