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frequent arrests and convictions. It is also a rare occurrence, com- 

 paratively speaking, to discover watered, skimmed and colored milk 

 on the market, even during the warm seasons. 



The careless, improper and indifferent methods of handling dairy 

 products are being rapidly relegated to the past. Bottled pure, 

 fresh milk, properly prepared and sterilized, is now readily attain- 

 able for the diet of the infant and invalid. 



A learned scientific authority who urges the use of milk more gen- 

 erally, gives the ratio of the value of a quart of pure, whole milk in 

 digestible nutrienls, as follows: 



Equivalent to nutrition in 1 pound beef chuck; 1 pound fowl; 

 I pound veal shoulder; ^ pound mutton leg; 9 ounces beef round; 

 9 ounces veal cutlets; in 2 pounds 5 ounces solid oysters; 2 pounds 

 5 ounces blue fish. 



MILK SUPPLY OP PHILADELPHIA. 



Before closing this report, it is but proper to state that the results 

 of numerous investigations made in Philadelphia afford a base for 

 the positive opinion that the milk supplv of that city has no superior, 

 if an equal, in any city in the United States. The sworn agents of 

 the Dairy and Food Commissioner, assisted by special help, quietly 

 collected many hundreds of samples of milk and cream for examina- 

 tion during the past year, with almost marvelous results. The work 

 of sampling was done on Sundays, as well as week days, with the 

 same satisfactory and pleasing results. The best residential por- 

 tions of the city were frequently selected by the representatives 

 of the Commissioner as a base for their operations, and then again 

 they were assigned to collect samples from the dairymen or small 

 dealers doing business or located in the so-called "slum districts,'' 

 with almost equally encouraging and satisfactory results. 



The educational campaign of 1904, although costly in dollars, was 

 the means of saving scores of lives, not only in Philadc Iphia, but 

 other sections of Pennsylvania. Thanks are especially dr.e to phy- 

 sicians and others who frequently and effectually co-operated in car- 

 rying out plans and making the work successful. The milk dealers 

 of Philadelphia, with very few exceptions, are law-abiding and 

 deserve unstinted praise for their active interest in this vital qm-s 

 tion and in driving from the markets the virile poisons sold as milk 

 years ago. The special help employed rendered able and intelligent 

 service. 



With a little more attention to sanitary conditions and surround 

 ings, on the part of a comparatively few small dealers, the general 

 conditions could not possibly be surpassed anywhere, so far as 

 cities are concerned. 



The Philadelphia Board of Health and Charities and Department 

 of Public Safety also deserve praise, and the Dairy and Food offi- 

 cials' grateful acknowledgment for their continued and cheerful 

 co-operation in the good work done in that city. 



HEALTHFUL AND BETTER MILK. . 



At the instance of a number of health officials, prominent bac- 

 teriologists and chemists, the Dairy and Food authorities of Penn- 

 sylvania have been urged to make an investigation into the sanitary 

 surroundings of milk producers and dairymen in various sections 



