Public health in European capitals : Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Christiania, Stockholm, and Copenhagen / by Thomas Morison Legge.

  • Legge, Sir Thomas Morison, 1863-1932.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Public health in European capitals : Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Christiania, Stockholm, and Copenhagen / by Thomas Morison Legge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    sidering the infinitely superior guarantee as to purity given by the former, is not great. On the estate there is a small hospital for isolating any case of infectious disease that may occur amongst the employes on the farm. Berlins Arrangements The methods that have been adopted by m Berlin, tdiese two companies are being largely imitated in various towns on the Continent. In Berlin there are two large milk businesses, which may be likened, the one, that of Herr Bolle, to the arrangements adopted in Copenhagen, the other, that of Herr Grub, to those in Stockholm ; although, naturally, certain differences exist, due either to the altered conditions under which the sale has to be made, or to the improvements which have suggested themselves to the proprietors. The Milch Kur-anstalt of Herr Oekonomierath Grub, situated at the Victoria Park, in the south-west of Berlin, is designed solely to provide milk of the first quality for children and invalids. No cream, butter, or cheese is made. Stalls for 250 cows are provided ; they are lofty and well ventilated; the floor is made of cement, and the walls, to a height of eight feet, are covered with white glazed porcelain tiles. Dried peat serves to absorb the excreta, and prevents any unpleasant smell. Only such animals as come from the healthiest breeds (chiefly the Swiss) are bought, and, as a rule, they are not kept for more than one year. No animal is accepted without the district veterinary surgeon’s certificate as to its healthy condition ; and before its milk is utilised, it is placed in an observation stall for some days, under the control of the company’s own veterinary surgeon, who also regularly examines all the animals in the institution. As food stuffs, only hay from the Jura Alps and wheat o