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dren, but we do not want to divert money to useless or dan- 

 gerous experiments. We hope you will give us a working pro- 

 gram, which will answer and settle some of these simple ques- 

 tions for all time. 



In conclusion, may I express the conviction that the most 

 important factor, after all, in saving babies, is not the cow 

 or the dairy or the nurse or the inspector, or yet the Board 

 of Estimate, but it is the mother. We have appropriated this 

 year some $40,000 for the purpose of giving to mothers the 

 best that science is able to give them in this matter. We have 

 appropriated that $4*0,000 for a summer's test, in reaching 

 mothers, from milk stations as a center. But in reaching 

 mothers, let me point out that it is most important that they 

 be enabled to absorb the information which we endeavor to ex- 

 tend to them. Naturally, when they learn unconsciously, they 

 learn best. It is therefore most important that the truth be 

 given to everybody through the medium of the press, in the 

 numberless ways in which the newspapers and the magazines 

 may spread the truth. I trust that you will consider here 

 and suggest a program for using the New York press for the 

 purpose of telling mothers, particularly throughout the sum- 

 mertime, how hot waves can be met without losing babies by 

 the hundreds. 



If, in addition to the other contributions to the general sub- 

 ject at this conference, you will suggest to the Department of 

 Health how it can successfully enlist their co-operation in this 

 matter, you will render a service to the City, the value of 

 which will be measured by numbers of useful lives saved to the 

 citizenship of New York. 



MR. PHILLIPS: Mr. Stephen Francisco, ex-President of the 

 National Association of Certified Milk Producers, who was to 

 act as Chairman of this meeting, has been detained at Mont- 

 clair. In his absence, I will introduce Mr. G. E. Zippel, Gen- 

 eral Agent of the Milk Department of the Delaware, Lack- 

 awanna & Western Railroad, who will speak on "The Trans- 

 portation and Care of Milk by Railroad Companies." I take 

 pleasure in introducing Mr. Zippel. 



MR. ZIPPELL spoke as follows: 



