APPENDIX E 241 



MONTCLAIR, N. J. 



The town of Montclair, N. J., was the pioneer in the 

 United States in official work for clean milk, and has, under 

 a succession of trained health officers, brought its milk stand- 

 ards to the culmination of obtaining a tuberculin-tested milk 

 of high sanitary quality. At Montclair the legal question 

 of the tuberculin test was conspicuously fought out, with 

 the result that an important victory was won by the Board 

 of Health and the legal status of the test firmly established. 

 In previous pages reference has been made to Montclair on 

 several points. For further information the reader is re- 

 ferred to the annual reports of the Board. 



RICHMOND, VA. 



Strict regulation aiming at clean milk has also been prac- 

 ticed for some years in Richmond, Va., under the direction 

 of the Health Officer, Dr. E. C. Levy. Nearly half of the 

 market milk in this city runs under 10,000 bacteria per c.c., 

 and 83.3 per cent of it below 50,000. The infantile diarrhea 

 death rate has declined remarkably, year by year, for the 

 last four years, though Dr. Levy remarks that he does not 

 hold "the primitive view that the milk supply is everything 

 in this connection or, indeed, that it is, in all probability, 

 the most important single thing. " The classification of 

 milk recently adopted by this city, (see Appendix B) shows 

 the requirement of pasteurization of milk not of the first 

 grade. 



WINNIPEG, CANADA 



Dr. A. J. Douglas, Medical Officer of Health, writes as 

 follows : 



From the experience I have had, my personal view is that pas- 

 teurization offers the most satisfactory solution of the problem of 

 how to secure a safe milk. In this city at least I do not see how the 



