In view of this cumulative evidence it is not surprising that public health workers are asking' for the control of milk-borne disease by compulsory pasteurization, From the hygienic point of view, this step is merely the equivalent to the treatment of water by filtration and chlorination. Recent experience has shown what widespread public disapprobation follows neglect to exercise adequate control Tover our water supply, and there seems no logical reason why the public conscience should not be similarly exercised over the safety of our milk supply, So far as the available evidence goes, there is no scientific argument against. pasteurization That the introduction of compulsory pasteurization might have widespread economic repercussions may be true, but it is not the purpose of this article to deal with a problem which comes into the domain of practical politics rather than of science. It is enough to show that, provided minor additions are made to the dietary of infants whose sole source of nourishment is pi-tourized cows' milk—additions which are almost on a gicicry of r: is no reason to fear the growth and general development of our population would be in any way prejudiced by the extended use th introduction of c pulsory teurization, carried oni under pi supervision, would lead to the practical abolition of milk-borne disease.
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