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ards, to determine the scope of veterinary inspection, and 

 finally to foster and encourage the establishment of medi- 

 cal milk commissions in other cities. 



The producers soon found it to their advantage to organ- 

 ize a national association, the Certified Milk Producers' 

 Association of America, which had its first meeting in 

 1908. Cordial cooperation between the two associations is 

 being fostered. 



The medical milk commission. The medical milk com- 

 mission is usually appointed by the county medical so- 

 ciety, which is the unit of the organized medical profession 

 as represented by the American Medical Association. In 

 fact, the law of New York, as well as of other cities and 

 states, recognizes only those milk commissions appointed by 

 county medical societies, organized under and chartered 

 by the medical society of the state. In a few instances, 

 commissions are in existence which have been self-ap- 

 pointed and which are doing excellent work. In the in- 

 terest of uniformity and harmony it is advisable that all 

 medical milk commissions should receive their commission 

 from the county medical society. The personnel of a med- 

 ical milk commission should include, hi addition to the 

 chairman and secretary-treasurer, a competent veterina- 

 rian, bacteriologist, chemist, clinician, and sanitarian or 

 sanitary engineer who has a special knowledge of dairy 

 methods. 



The specific duty of a medical milk commission is to 

 enter into a contract with an intelligent and conscientious 

 dairyman who is sufficiently interested in clean milk to con- 

 vert his own plant into a certified dairy. The commission 

 should devote its main energy to supervising this supply 

 and personally seeing that the dairyman faithfully sup- 

 ports both the letter and the spirit of the contract. The 

 work of the commission does not end here, for each medi- 

 cal milk commission should be the centre for the movement 

 of cleaner and better milk in its locality. It should be the 



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