Proceedings of the quarter-centennial celebration of the establishment of the Michigan State Board of Health : held at Detroit, Michigan, August 9, 1898.
- Michigan. State Board of Health
- Date:
- 1898
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Proceedings of the quarter-centennial celebration of the establishment of the Michigan State Board of Health : held at Detroit, Michigan, August 9, 1898. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![of the diild, tlnis obviating the necessity of an attendant, a device for a lazy mother or nnrse who is untitted for her sacred trust. InA’estigation has shown an enormous proportion of diarrhoeal diseases in children artificially fed and using this form of contrmiuce not found with the use of others. This explanation is found in the fact that it is impossible to keep this tubing clean or safe. The mother, usually uneducated in the premises, cannot, by scalding or washing, maintain the inner surface of the tubing in condition so as not to contaminate the milk drawn through it. I Imve conducted a series of experiments and investigations in the matter, the details of which I need not detain you with, the result of which, briefly, may be summarized as folloAVs: The inner surfaces of these tubes are found to be irregular, present porosities and the seams are frequently imperfect. These indenlations become the rendezvous of colonies of micro-organ- isms, which thrive on the milk which stagnates in them and which can- not be dislodged by any ordinary process of cleansing. As a result of this condition, milk, receptive of infection by nature aided by artificial warmth, becomes an easy medium for the development of toxiues. At my suggestion, the city of liufTalo has, by ordinance, prohibited the sale and use of these death-dealing bottles, though not without incurring the animus of certain commercial interests who have combined and are arrayed to combat the ordinance. It is needless to say that the profession has, without question, given its hearty suiiport to the stand taken by the Department and that the issue will be carried to a finish. If ordinances created to correct so i)atent a cause of infantile mortality can be set aside for commercial reasons, health laws in the future will liave small chances for their existence. Municipal protection of the milk industry constitutes a large and most important agent in diminishing the causes of infantile mortality. To secure this end, city milk houses should answer to the following principal requirements: 1. rro])er light, air and ventilation. 2. Constructed of non-absorbent material. 3. Without direct communication to sleeping aj)artments, water-closets or any unsanatory room. 4. Use for milk storage solely. 5. Storage and cooling boxes metallic lined, elevated and placed to per- mit thorough clean.sing. 0. Sanitary plumbing, outside box ventilation, indirect drainage. <. SanifarA' rules posted cons])icuously pertaining to cans and protec- tion of milk. ^ 8. Prohibition of the use of disinfectants—anv necessitA' for their use implying unsanitary condition. 9. Prohibiting the leaving of bottles or receiving the same from any house placarded for contagious diseases, and prohibiting milk-men from refilling or filling bottles on wagon or while on route. . elimination of pernicious influences upon diarrhoeal diseases of infancy by maintaining a high degree of excellence in all that bears upon 11](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22335213_0085.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
