More Milk and Safer Milk At the time when the
Milk 14farketing Board is rightly turning to propaganda to promote a greater consumption of milk we are constantly—and also Tightly—warned of the dangers of infection from tuberculosis and other kinds conveyed by raw milk. At present these two kinds of propaganda appear to be working against each Other. Sir Leonard Hill in his presidential address to the Sanitary Inspectors' Association, last Tuesday, said it Was shameful that tuberculosis of bovine origin should be Permitted' to be spread by the continued sale of raw milk ; and suggested that the mixing of milk from many sources in great containers made the contamination of all with tubercle bacilli almost inevitable. Sir Leonard favours pasteurisation and sterilisation of all milk and cream. tut these precautions are still opposed in some influential quarters. It is time that this most vital question was squarely faced by the Ministry of Health, and decisions taken that will settle the doubts of the public and forward that desirable end—the drinking of more milk.
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