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MOST of us have received the familiar wide-mouthed milk bottle with its pressed-in cardboard stopper and, wiping with some anxiety its dirty neck, have wondered whether the milk is fit to drink. Remembering the difficulties of war and aware of the psychologist and his dirt-complex, we have reflected that anyhow the milk in our bottle is all the milk we can get and have tried not to be too fussy about it. The 'authorities', we know, have our cows tested for tuberculosis and do what they can to see that the milk we get is as clean as possible before it goes into the bottles; the medical men—and some others—wrangle interminably about the obvious advantages of pasteurization; but may not all these efforts be stultified by inefficient methods of washing, filling and distributing milk bottles? May not a roundsman who is naturally unaware that he is a typhoid carrier undo all the labours of those who have provided him with typhoid-free milk?
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LAPAGE, G. Cleansing of Milk Bottles. Nature 153, 31–32 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153031a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153031a0