Atlanta Daily World

Specialists Study Ways To Fight Fever In Georgia

A slow, hard-to-cure fever, which you could get from impure milk called by any of the 16 names a medical dictionary gives it is still a fever that nobody in Georgia wants. How to keep Georgia free of this, usually known as "undulant fever" and to prevent a dozen other diseases which can be caused by insanitary milk and foods how to do this in spite of an added population in defense areas This was the effect of a meeting of about 50 specialists in many fields, and from all parts of the state, held in Atlanta recently "We have to figure ways of keeping pace, in spite of the fact that many of our public health sanitary engineers have been called into the war services." L. M. Clarkson, director of the engineering division, Georgia Department of Public Health, told the gathering Milk in Georgia should be produced under the strictest sanitary conditions to provide Grade A ray, and the pasteurization. We cannot let up on our system of inspection at laboratory inspection" Meeting were health department Sanitary engineer, milk laboratory personnel, a representative from the school lunchrooms and one from the Georgia Restaurant Association Undulant fever, by the way, can be called: Brucellosis Malta fever: continued fever. Mediterranean fever Cyprus fever. rock fever. slow fever. mountain fever., and a lot of other names in Latin. Aim of the meeting: to keep any one from having need to use any of these names And to keep down diseases like typhoid, bovine tuberculosis and others