RoBEETOX. — Milh as a I'c/tirlc of Disease. 587 



regulating tho sanitai'v sui'iouudiiigs of llic niilk-lradc it is 

 evident tliat v;e are sadly deficient. Wholesome official 

 control of the milk-supply ought to be a powerful factor in 

 maintaining the exceptional healthiness of the jiopulation, 

 which is one of the great privileges of tho colony, and our 

 gain ^YOuld be not only in the direction of physical welfare. 

 We are hoping and attempting to develope an export trade in 

 dairy -produce. Throughout the world attention has been 

 directed to the dangers to health lurking in food deiivcd from 

 milk and its products ; .and other countries — Denmark, for 

 instance — have seen the necessity of providing legislation 

 which will help to guarantee the harmlessness of the dairy- 

 produce the}' export. If New Zealand is behind the times in 

 doing .likewise she nuist struggle the longer in oi^ening a 

 market for her surplus dairy-produce. 



I have offered nothing original in what I have brought 

 forward. I have attempted only to give an idea of the views 

 at present held on the subject of milk as a vehicle of disease, 

 and I trust that the importance of the subject ]na> veil any 

 defects of the method in which T liave treated it. 



