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Miss Shuttleworth. In making my address, I want to be understood as 

 corroborating- all that has been said about cleanliness. If they had not 

 said it, I would have had to say it from a medical point of view. 



What we need is a new point of view on the milk question. In order 

 to make clear what I mean, I will ask you to go back to the days when 

 you were little garls, and your mothers allowed you the great privilege 

 of going into the kitchen and helping to make cake or bread. How 

 fascinating it was ! You will remember how particular she was ; the 

 bake-board must be scrubbed to a snowy whiteness; then mother's hands 

 and arms must be washed, though they were clean before; a clean apron 

 must be put on ; then when the dough was moulded into loaves and put 

 into the pans to rise, they were covered with a clean towel and a clean 

 blanket. And why? Because the bread was going straight from those 

 fingers, that bake-board, towel, and blanket to the mouths of the family. 



Now, that is the point of view that we ought to have about milk. 

 Why should we be content to allow the milk to come from a dirty stable, 

 a dirty cow, a milker's dirty hands, a dirty bottle, to the baby's mouth? 

 Babies have been poisoned wholesale by dirty milk. I do not say in On- 

 tario, for we have not yet sufficient information in the matter, but I do 

 say that this has been the case elsewhere, as I can prove to you, and the 

 probability is that it is so in Ontario also. Dirty milk means milk with 

 too many germs in it. Now, as you know, some germs are not harmful, 

 but when we have too many germs in milk they are harmful, and, not 

 only harmful, but poisonous. Strychnine would not be more deadly to an 

 infant than milk containing millions of germs in a few drops. This is 

 what I want to say about the viewpoint. We should be at least as care- 

 ful of our milk as we are of our cooking processes in the kitchen. 



Not only do we need a new viewpoint, but we need to have more 

 interest taken in the milk question. During the pure milk campaign in 

 Boston, a talented lady, a writer of more than local fame, called on a 

 distinguished hygienist seeking information on pure foods. She professed 

 a lively interest in this subject, and the hygienist responded with great 

 enthusiasm. He said that milk surpasses all other food stuffs in its 

 potency for good or evil, that a considerable part of the current sickness 

 and mortality of Boston is due to bad milk, and that a great many lives, 

 particularly of infants, would be saved if intelligent people, women es- 

 pecially, would inform themselves fully and would exert their influence 

 to improve the milk supply of Boston. The ladv's enthusiasm for pure 

 food did not survive this brief discourse on milk. She said : "I don't 

 drink milk, and I am not interested in babies. Tell me what you know 

 about lemon extract." 



We should take more interest in the milk industry than we do. It is 

 one of the most important industries of the Province, and Ontario is going 

 to be the great dairying Province. 



Now, vou will not think I am too extreme, or that T am sayinp- what 

 is not so about babies and milk, when I tell you the following incident. 

 A woman recently complained to Dr. Osier that Providence had taken her 



