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seventeen quarts daily of what he was calling certified milk, 

 but he (Dr. Coit) soon convinced him that the term " certi- 

 fied " was a falsification. If they were to regard milk con- 

 taining a low count of bacilli as certified that would be false, 

 because they had such milk that was being delivered in 

 New York, but it was not certified milk, because it was not 

 milk of guaranteed safety. The plan for obtaining certified 

 milk in the United States included four methods of control. 

 There was the veterinary supervision of the herd with tuber- 

 culin, the actual guarantee, the chemical examination, and 

 the bacteriological examination for the purpose of deter- 

 mining the food values of the milk and its cleanliness. He 

 would like to claim the honour of having suggested bacterio- 

 logical examinations for the control of dairy hygiene a 

 thing which was never done before the plan which he 

 suggested twenty-four years ago. Since then there had 

 grown up centres where milk bacteriology had become a 

 science, and had given a livelihood to many bacteriologists. 

 Let him give them one clear instance of what was necessary 

 in order to thoroughly carry out this programme of the 

 chemical supervision of dairy hygiene, and medical control 

 of the employees. In the United States they had seventy- 

 two of these medical commissions authorized by representa- 

 tive medical societies in twenty States, banded together in 

 a federation, and that meant over 500 doctors, and he was 

 pleased to be able to announce that four or five weeks ago 

 Dr. Kerr was made President of that body of physicians and 

 sanitarians. That Commission stood for clinical milk; not 

 for market milk. They found that certificated milk dragged 

 everything up with it, because it was an object lesson; it 

 was educational in its effects, and it stimulated the dairyman. 

 The market milk problem was greater because it touched a 

 larger proportion of the population, and until they got 

 market milk clean, certified milk would have but a small 

 incidence upon the mortality; but as he had said it was 

 educational in its effect, and in that way it touched the whole 

 problem of the milk supply. The instance which he wanted 

 to relate would show them what he meant. There was a 

 dairyman in the United States serving something like 6,500 

 quarts of milk per day into a community where there were 

 half a million people, and who had influenced the whole 

 problem of the milk supply for that community. This man 

 one day was informed by the dairy physician, who lived 

 within a mile of the plant, that there was one man in the 

 gang who had been put to bed. They telephoned to him 

 (the speaker) as Chairman of the Commission, and in reply 

 to a question he was told that the man had a little fever. 



