. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. for their advantage, the benefit tothem is so patent. Statistics are accumu-lating all the time which show the greatnumbers of outbreaks of contagious dis-ease due to milk. Typhoid fever epi-demics are the most frequent, but thoseof scarlet fever and diphtheria are notfew, and epidemic sore throat brings upthe rear with not too small a total number of these epidemics runswell into the hundreds, and when we con-sider that some of these outbreaks claimedhundre
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. for their advantage, the benefit tothem is so patent. Statistics are accumu-lating all the time which show the greatnumbers of outbreaks of contagious dis-ease due to milk. Typhoid fever epi-demics are the most frequent, but thoseof scarlet fever and diphtheria are notfew, and epidemic sore throat brings upthe rear with not too small a total number of these epidemics runswell into the hundreds, and when we con-sider that some of these outbreaks claimedhundreds of victims with the customaryproportion of deaths, the seriousness isreadily apparent. The country is awakening to the reali-zation also that all of these diseasestaken together are insignificant comparedwith the loss of life among young childrenfrom digestive troubles caused by im-proper food, mostly milk, milk merelydirty and unfit. Dr. John LovettMorse in the first bulletin of the Massa-chusetts Milk Consumers x\ssociation,savs: In New York in the five years,1900 to 1904, only 23,330 children of THE MILK SITUATION. SMALL-iMOUTHKL) PAILS KEEP DIRT OUT OF MILK all ages died of measles, scarlet fever,whooping-cough, typhoid fever, anddiphtheria combined, while 26,563 babiesunder two years died of the diarrhealdiseases during the same time. Inmost of the larger cities and towns ofMassachusetts, milk stations have alreadybeen, or are this year being started, tosupply clean milk to the poor babiesof the Commonwealth, and what is evenmore needed, instruction of the mothersin the proper care of the baby and ofits food. The third great danger to the lives andhealth of the whole community from milkwhich is not clean, lies in are paying immense sums annuallyto try to stamp out consum])tion amonghuman beings, and when we have anoutbreak like that of foot and mouthdisease which has twice attacked ourcattle, we wisely spare no expense incrushing it; but tuberculosis in
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