. The human body and health : an elementary text-book of essential anatomy, applied physiology and practical hygiene for schools . idemics of infec-tious diseases, each af-fecting from 10 to 500persons, have been causedby milk. Dirty cows,dirty stables, dirty hands,or dirty vessels used inthe production of milkwill sooner or later bringsickness and in some cases death to some of ^^^- of typhoid germs as seen through the microscope. those using it. Typhoid Fever and Milk. — At Cambridge, Massachu-setts, there was a typhoid epidemic affecting 73 persons,all of whom had used milk from
. The human body and health : an elementary text-book of essential anatomy, applied physiology and practical hygiene for schools . idemics of infec-tious diseases, each af-fecting from 10 to 500persons, have been causedby milk. Dirty cows,dirty stables, dirty hands,or dirty vessels used inthe production of milkwill sooner or later bringsickness and in some cases death to some of ^^^- of typhoid germs as seen through the microscope. those using it. Typhoid Fever and Milk. — At Cambridge, Massachu-setts, there was a typhoid epidemic affecting 73 persons,all of whom had used milk from a farm where the fathernursed his son sick with the fever and also did the Elk ton, Maryland, in 1900, one milkman, whose wife as-sisted in caring for a typhoid patient and also did the dairywork, supplied 39 families with milk, and in every homefrom one to three members became ill with the 1903, in Palo Alto, California, 236 cases of fever re-sulted from the use of milk part of which came from adairy along a stream known to contain typhoid reached the water from patients living on the bank. 64 MILK three miles above the dairy. The water from the streamwas used to wash the milk cans. Over 200 epidemics oftyphoid, each affecting from 10 to 500 persons, have beentraced to milk as the source. Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever in Relation to Milk.—Over 100 epidemics of these diseases are known to have had their source in themilk supply. At Ashta-bula a hundred personswere infected with diph-theria, by germs from onedairv where a man witha light case of the diseasehelped care for the January and Februaryof 1907 the milk of onecompany caused over 600cases of scarlet fever inBoston and one who has sufferedfrom any of these dan-gerous diseases shouldhandle the milk until a month after recovery, because thegerms sometimes remain several weeks in the system. Tuberculosis and Milk. — Many cows have tuberculosisin a mild form. Very few
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