162 THE MILK QUESTION 



ization alone will render it safe? No one wants dirty milk 

 even though it is not specifically dangerous. There is an 

 aesthetic side to our food problem which is not to be ig- 

 nored. Further, dirty milk may be dangerous milk, even 

 though pasteurized, for babies, invalids, and others. It 

 will be shown that pasteurization does not atone for filth, 

 that pasteurization does not improve the quality of milk, 

 that pasteurization should never be used as a redemption 

 process. In other words, pasteurization also has its limit- 

 ations. The solution of the milk problem, therefore, con- 

 sists in obtaining a reasonably clean, fresh supply through 

 a system of inspection and then pasteurizing it to neu- 

 tralize the dangers that cannot be seen by the inspector. 



In Richmond, Virginia, Health Officer Levy greatly 

 improved the sanitary conditions of the cow stables 

 through a system of inspection and also effected a very 

 marked reduction in the number of bacteria in the milk 

 furnished that city. 



In Rochester, New York, Dr. Goler also effected a de- 

 cided improvement in the milk supply through an intelli- 

 gent system of inspection coupled with practical demon- 

 strations to the farmer showing him how to produce a clean 

 and satisfactory milk. Dr. Goler believes that through 

 these methods not only has the milk been greatly improved, 

 but that a decided falling-off in the infant mortality has 

 taken place. 



In Geneva, New York, the quality of the milk was 

 greatly improved by getting the producers to sell milk upon 

 the basis of the score card. 



Milk inspectors. To send an inexperienced man to in- 

 spect a dairy farm, at once places inspection among the 

 extravagantly absurd measures. The farmer cannot but 

 have a supreme contempt for the whole system when a 

 young man from the city, with no experience of animal 

 husbandry and with but a superficial knowledge of theo- 

 retical dairying, dictates to him what to do and what not 



