Milk Made Safer
The South Bend Medical Foundation's first pathologist, Dr. Alfred Sabato Giordano, made medical history on several occasions during his 30-year tenure at the laboratory. The most prominent example occurred in 1927. At that time, Dr. Stanley Clark, a prominent area physician and good friend of Dr. Giordano, was stricken with a baffling case of a rare disease called Undulent Fever.
Based on his theory that this ailment, which was very prevalent in cattle, could be transmitted through milk, Dr. Giordano successfully isolated the disease and conducted extensive research into more effective ways to diagnose it. The case attracted national attention and led to South Bend passing one of the country's first ordinances requiring that all milk be pasteurized.