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We have cared for 2,005 children during the past fifteen months. 

 At no time have there been less than 700 under our care, the highest 

 number being about 900. Among these children there were up to 

 September i, 1910, 46 deaths, both while the children were under our 

 care and after they had passed from our supervision. While under 

 our care, the children have shown a death rate of 2^ per cent. This is 

 to be compared with the rate of 12^ per cent for Boston as a whole, 

 counting all babies under one year of age, rich or poor. It seems to us 

 fair to compare the above, because we have had something more 

 than 10 per cent of the babies of the city under our care during this 

 time. 



Our nurses are instructed to act as voluntary sanitary inspectors. 

 The Board of Health furnishes blanks to report any violations of 

 the sanitary regulations. They also report to the director observa- 

 tions of the conditions under which milk is sold in the stores in 

 their district. They have been responsible for sending valuable 

 information which when placed at the disposal of the city milk 

 inspector resulted in suspension of licenses. 



Our Association has been successful in having a regulation adopted 

 by the local Board of Health prohibiting the sale of loose milk. 

 This regulation was postponed from time to time on the impor- 

 tunity of certain milk dealers until the middle of June, when after 

 a great public contest the regulation was confirmed by the Mayor. 

 Through the summer about 100 licenses have been revoked by the 

 milk inspector for violation of this regulation. Appeals have been 

 taken by the licensees to the State Board of Health, which after 

 lengthy deliberation has upheld the regulation. 



The Association has also to report that it has founded a special 

 milk research to attempt the solution of great milk problems which 

 have long been matters of acrimonious discussion but which can 

 only be settled in the laboratory. This research will be conducted 

 under the direction of Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, Professor of Pre- 

 ventive Medicine and Hygiene at Harvard Medical School, through 

 whom the laboratories of the medical school have been placed at 

 our disposal. Dr. Edwin H. Schorer, -formerly of Johns Hopkins 

 University and the Rockefeller Institute, has been engaged for a 

 term of three years to prosecute this research. The Association and 

 Dr. Rosenau are keeping in close touch with the United States 

 Department of Agriculture and with other organizations which are 

 conducting or planning milk researches, and respectfully request 

 information in regard to all such matters in order that there may 

 be no duplication of effort. 



THE NEW YORK DIET KITCHEN ASSOCIATION 



The Association supports nine milk stations or "kitchens" where 

 certified milk is dispensed to both mothers and babies, also to tuber- 

 culosis and general cases, on the presentation of requisitions signed by 

 recognized medical or charitable authorities or is sold at six cents 

 ($ .06) a quart to such as can pay for it. 



Instruction in infant hygiene, the modification of milk and the 

 proper feeding of their babies is given the mothers by the matrons 

 in the kitchens and by the doctors and nurses in the conferences. 

 The literature distributed is that published by the Department of 

 Health on the subject. 



Baby conferences are held regularly in the stations by physicians 

 who volunteer their services or by doctors and nurses detailed from 



