FROM THE PRACTICAL VIEWPOINT 



stead of encouraging the pasturization of milk, or 

 even ignoring it, health authorities rather took 

 steps to discourage its practice. The desire to se- 

 cure a safe milk supply for the public took form 

 in strenuous efforts to clean up the sources from 

 which the milk was secured, to secure proper re- 

 frigeration and to assure clean handling. The cry 

 was for clean milk as produced from the dairies, 

 and the process of pasteurization was frowned 

 upon. 



In New York and other cities, commendable 

 progress was made in the effort to secure a clean, 

 safe raw milk, and the improvement made in the 

 conditions under which milk is handled, particu- 

 larly in receiving stations and creameries, can 

 hardly be appreciated by those who were unfa- 

 miliar with conditions before the campaign for 

 clean milk was inaugurated. Dairy conditions 

 have also been greatly improved, and the dairymen 

 themselves repeatedly say that they would not for 

 any consideration go back to old conditions. All 

 efforts made to advance the production of clean 

 milk should be continued with unabated vigor. 



It soon became apparent, however, that the se- 

 curing for a large city of a raw milk supply 



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