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which stipulates the number of bacteria permissible in commer- 

 cial milk, will, I take it, depend entirely upon the attitude of the 

 new Board of Supervisors toward this Board, which is already 

 doing, and has been so doing for more than four years, the most 

 arduous work connected with the enforcement of said milk ordi- 

 nance, that is, the tuberculin testing of all dairy cows. If to this 

 is added the next most difficult work. viz. — the bacterial count, 

 there remains little more to be done that this Division could not 

 assume in conjunction with the sanitary inspectors of the Board 

 of Health anl the pure food inspector. If the new Board of 

 Supervisors appoint a competent milk inspector and direct him to 

 cooperate with this Division, that is. if they appoint the only 

 qualified milk inspector in the country, Mr. Joe Richard, who, as 

 they are well aware, has been carried on the rolls of this Board 

 for the past two years in order to retain his services and further 

 develop his ability and usefulness, then the milk inspection ques- 

 tion is solved, and solved in the most economic manner possible, 

 effecting a considerable cash saving to the Board of Supervisors, 

 at the same time as placing the authority and responsibility under 

 one head. Any other appointment will mean an impediment to 

 the service and a complete disregard of what the public demand 

 and are entitled to. and for which they certainly have been wait- 

 ing long enough, that is. clean milk from healthy cows. Whatever 

 milk and dairy inspection has been carried on during the past two 

 years has been done by the Division of Animal Industry ; every 

 dairyman knows its officers and has confidence in them, and the 

 very idea of an unproficient and inexperienced man attempting to 

 enforce the milk regulations by the rule of thumb or by the print- 

 ed word of the ordinance would prove either a farce or a tragedy, 

 without getting one step closer to clean milk. But as I have 

 already laid this matter before the President of this Board for 

 his action. I only venture to hope for an equitable solution of the 

 subject, that will not render useless the efforts of the Board and 

 of this Division during the past two years for the end in view — 

 clean milk from healthy cows. However, if the Board of Super- 

 visors should not wish to cooperate with this Board as above sug- 

 gested, I trust the Board will not require this Division to educate 

 another milk inspector, which task would be equal to assuming 

 the inspection work as hitherto. By the same token I should feel 

 constrained to notify the Board that an ordinarily intelligent 

 laborer will be sufficiently qualified to perform the duties required 

 of a lay assistant in carrying on the tuberculin testing work, and 

 that $35.00 or $40.00 per month may thereby be saved. However 

 as Supervisor J\Ir. Dan Logan, who three years ago helped this 

 Division by having the then city milk inspector, Mr. Richard, as- 

 signed to assist us in the cattle testing, which work in every way 

 coincides and fits in with the milk and dairy inspection work, has 

 now promised to lend his influence toward a similar arrangement, 

 the two Boards dividing expenses, — salary and transportation, 



