2994-42500 TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States. WALTER WYMAN, Surgeon-General. HYGIENIC LABORATORY. BULLETIN No. 41. M. J. ROSENAU, Director. JANUARY, 1908. MILK AND ITS RELATION TO THE (BY VARIOUS AUTHORS.) WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. 1. INTRODUCTION 11 2. MILK AS A CAUSE OF EPIDEMICS OF TYPHOID FEVER, SCARLET FEVER, AND DIPHTHERIA 19 Outbreak of diphtheria in Dorchester, Milton, and Hyde Park_ 36 Page. 3. THE MILK SUPPLY OF CITIES IN RELATION TO THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF TYPHOID FEVER__. 149 Milk and other dairy products as factors in spread of infection__ 151 152 Measures to prevent the dissemination of the infection of 158 The prevention of the introduction of infection into milk.. 158 159 4. FREQUENCY OF TUBERCLE BACILLI IN THE MARKET MILK OF WASHING The number of tubercular cows in the dairies supplying Washing- 173 Results of tuberculin tests elsewhere than in herds supplying 174 Characteristics of Rabinowitsch's butter bacillus.. 175 Collection of samples and technic------ 177 Use of tuberculin to eliminate infection with other acid-fast or- 179 Table of results of autopsies on guinea pigs.. 179 Résumé____ 191 5. THE RELATION OF GOAT'S MILK TO THE SPREAD OF MALTA FEVER_ Characteristics of Malta fever.. Methods through which the infection is acquired by the goats.. 203 203 Outbreak of Malta fever on the Joshua Nicholson....... 204 History of the investigation of the disease at Gibraltar, and pre- 7. RELATION OF COW'S MILK TO THE ZOO-PARASITIC DISEASES OF MAN. Remoteness of danger of infection through milk...--- Methods of possible contamination of the milk with preventive measures 211 212 213 217 218 218 221 223 223 Water-born parasites_. 224 |