ing separately though towards the same end, it is fully expect- 

 ed that greater progress can be made in shorter time and at 

 less cost now that such co-operation has been assured. Briefly, 

 the campaign will be one of education, first, as already stated, 

 by awakening the interest of the milk consumer in the actual 

 source of his daily milk supply. This in itself would accom- 

 plish much, as many a milk consumer would abandon the use 

 of milk entirely were he to visit the premises where some of 

 the milk that is offered the Honolulu people is produced, or 

 else he would hunt for a safer source of supply and periodical- 

 ly, at least, satisfy himself of its continued sanitary condition. 



That the medical profession of Honolulu were not unaware 

 of the unsatisfactory state of the local milk supply was plain- 

 ly voiced by a number of both practising physicians and sani- 

 tary officials, at the meeting in question ; in fact the subject 

 proved one of absorbing interest and brought to light very 

 strange incidents encountered by the practitioners with ref- 

 erence to milk furnished their patients, but which I shall not 

 repeat here, for fear of straining the faith of the milk consum- 

 ing public to the bursting point. As long as practically all 

 infants less than one year old and at least 7S per cent of all 

 children between one and five years must have cow's milk 

 daily, or else either die or become stunted in their develop- 

 ment, nothing can be gained by destroying the faith of the 

 parents in the one substitute for mother's milk and the only 

 nearly perfect food for children and invalids, until something 

 better or equally good can be offered in its place. But much 

 can be gained by destroying or reducing the criminal careless- 

 ness with which the general public accepts milk as milk, that 

 is, as the only proper food for their children. To this end the 

 full support of the medical profession was cheerfully granted, 

 the support being voiced by the president and members of the 

 Territorial Board of Health, of the Anti-Tuberculosis League 

 and by the practising physicians through the presiding offi- 

 cer of the Aledical Association. 



By constantly bringing to the attention of the milk con- 

 sumer the importance of clean milk from healthy cows the 

 visiting physician, in families with children especially, will be 

 instrumental in creating a corps of voluntary milk and dairy 

 inspectors, men, women and children, who will read with in- 

 terest such short notes and easily comprehend facts and figures 

 pertaining to milk, milking methods and utensils, cows, their 

 keep, care and characteristics, how to tell a tested from an un- 

 tested cow, and which, it is expected, will appear periodically 

 in the daily or weekly publications throughout the Territory, 

 under an easily recognized pictorial heading, that of a good 

 type of milk cow for instance. The progressive dairyman or 

 milk producer will undoubtedly welcome all such visitors to 

 his premises Avho come to seek information about his means 



