[Reports and Appendices] of the Irish Milk Commission, 1911.

  • Great Britain. [Royal] Commission on the Irish Milk Supply.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Reports and Appendices] of the Irish Milk Commission, 1911. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ]\ilLK—continued If is better t^) have u pleiitilul supply of milk pro- duced under ordinary conditions than a smaller supply of more expensive milk, 322i}7. Children drinking tuberculous milk usually resist infection if of good vitality, 32572-6. Children suffer more fronr want of milk than from the effects of milk, 32577-8, 32585-6. Ihe butter content of milk varies sometimes accord- ing to the pastures the cows feed on, 26387-9. Difference between morning and evening mi'k, 29192-3. Decomposition of milk above a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, 30525. Effects on children, 30525, 30571. leople do not kn<)W the value of tubercle-free milk, 31377, 31385-6. Bottled milk, advantages of, 30966-7, 31089-92; is dearer than ordinary milk, 31093-5. Milk suspected of causing infectious disease; for power to suspend the supply at once, 30973-4. •City milk is better than country milk 31611-4 Certified milk, no sale of, 31562-7 Is dearer than o'dinary milk, 32222-4 Difficulty of controlling milk which comes frnni the same farm partly from tuberculin-tested and partlj- from non-tuberculin-tested herds, 30686-8. Nutritive properties of milk are injured bv heat, 80882, 30897-9, 30926-7, 31085-8. Cooling preferable to boiling, 30822. To boil milk interferes with its food value, 31731. But boiled milk is a much safer food for infants than ordinai'v unboiled milk, 31731-2. Milk should be first raised to the boiling point and then used, 31733-4. ■Ordinary pasteurisation diminishes, but does not remove the dangei- of infection, 31736. Results of experiments at various temperatures for different periods, 31736: sjiowing that cream cannot therebv be sterilised for butter- making. 31737-9. Commercial pasteurisation A\-(ni]d be less effi- cient, 31740-1. Effects on butter of heating cream to vaiious temperatures, 31742. Separated milk which has been pasteurised some- times undergoes putrefaction more easily than milk ^^■hich has not been so treated, 31742-6. Recommends sterilisation rather than the intro- duction of lactic acid bacilli, 31747-52. Buttermilk; effect on, from cream heated to various temperatures, 31742. Lactic acid bacilli retard putrefaction in milk or milk products, 31743. Knows of no facts to sup])ort the statement that the use of sterilised milk by babies causes rickets and scurvy, 31753. Babies and cows have thrived well on boiled milk, 31753-8. Butter made from milk containi)ig tubercle bacilli, and the buttermilk, remain infectious, 31759. Cheese also may be infe:;ted, '31759. •Question whethei^ a cow-keeper should be allowed to sell, untreated, the .milk of reacting cows, 30835-60. Microscopical examination of milk is not sufScient, 31764-7, 31802-5. Direct inspection of farms, plus bacteriological testing of milk of suspected cows, 's better, 31772. Filtration of milk removes dirt, but not dangei^ous bacteria, 31768-70. Milk does not need to be ventilated, 32665-6. MILK CLUBS, as a remedy for scarcity of milk. There is no organised demand for milk, hence difficulty of arranging for a supply, 30297, 30311- 4, 30340-2. Suggested means of organising a demand, e.g., formation of milk clubs, 30315. Work done by the United Irishwomen; depot in Borris and itinerant distribution at Fenit, 30319-34. Need of an organising body to ensure a milk supply, 30323. The United Irishwomen and the W.H.N.A. might be the organisers, 30339. MILK CLUBS—co/ihrt«ed. The I.A.O.S. will try to arrange through creameries and farmers to meet a demand. 30297, 30339. lie payment, tickets could be bought beforehand at the depot and handed to the contractor for file milk, 30335-8, 30419; this would prevent fraud and bad debts, 30372. I\[ilk in the winter is scarce and might be pasteurised, 30297, 30410-3. Creameries are willing to sell milk. 30300-1; objections to sell could be overcome, 30389-93. If creameries are too far away', milk could be dis- tributed at cross-roads, etc., 30300. Probable price of milk sold at creameries, 30302-8. Creameries might be able to sell milk dailv in the winter, 30448-51. Chilling milk after pasteurisation, 30344-57. Co-operative societies coidd not be started solely for the sale of milk because of the expense, 30362. Clubs wovdd be sufficient, 30397-409. MILK DEPOTS, INFANTS'. In Glasgow has been abandoned, 30896-905. Annual loss on the undertaking, 30948-53. There is not a depot in Leeds because the expen- diture was ruled ultra vires, 31079. So a depot was opened on philanthropic lines, 31079-81. Infant mortalitv reduced; method of com- putation, 31079. There is a dried milk depot for infants in Sheffield, 32392-6. Municipal Iiifantv' Milk Deputs, Liverpool. Geitesis, 31423-5. For whom intended, 31420-31, 31574. Graduated prices, according to ability of parents to pay, 31432-47, 31577-81. Mode of distributmg the milk. 31448, 31456-7. Loss on working, 31449-50, 31461-6, 31471-81, 31490. The expenditure is treated as one for the protection of public health, 31513. Mode of treating the milk, 31451-5, 31582.* Medical advice is not given with the milk, 31458-9, 31482-6. Source of the supply, 31407-70. The milk is a medicine for the infants, 31482. Reduction of infant mortality, 31487-9, 31522-6. j\Iilk is supplied to nursing mothers, 31491-502. ililk is supplied to children under a vear old, 31519- 21, 31575-6. No bad effects observed on children using the milk heated up to 210 deg. F., 31585-7, 31597-600. Local authorities have no right to establish milk depots in Ireland. 32772-82. ilILK PRODU(rS. Proposal that the provisions of the Dairies Order should apply to. See DairicH Order : proposed u ))i c nd itnii t-i. MILK RECORDS. Records kept, 27403-6. Advantage of keeping, 28453-63, 28856-61, 29309-12. By keeping records, has been able to get rid of poor milkers, 29965-70, 29993-6. The average yield per cow has been raised from 300 to 500'gallons, 29967. By keeping records a farmer turned a loss into a 'profit, 31015-9. MILK VENDORS. Should be licensed. S( c Licensing. MORRISON, Dr. H. S. (Medical Officer of Health, Aghadowey, Co. Antrim; and President of the Aghadowey Co-operative Creamery). The Dairies Order is enforced in the Coleraine rural district, 28895-906, 28924-6. The creamery has not been asked to retail milk, 28914-6; but would do so if asked, 29090-3. The manager returns dirty milk, 28918-21. The long-tube babv's bottle is used, 28935-9, 28978-9. No scarcity of milk in Coleraine and district, 28927-34, 28940-4. Farmers sell milk to labourers, 29094.