NEW YORK MILK COMMITTEE 11 



Will Pasteurization make unnecessary the inspection of milk 

 shops, depots or country dairies and creameries? 



Can proper control over commercial Pasteurization be se- 

 cured by City inspection, or should the City provide Pasteur- 

 ization plants? 



If all milk were properly bottled at dairies and properly 

 iced at farms, in transit and at stores, would Pasteurization 

 still be necessary? 



Are conditions of marketing such that, without raising the 

 price of milk in stores, the sale of loose milk can be prohibited 

 and the bottling of all milk compelled? 



Would Pasteurization appreciably raise the price of milk? 



If the medical profession agrees that skimmed milk is nour- 

 ishing and may be sold without detriment, if properly labelled, 

 should the law prohibiting its sale be repealed? 



Would this repeal reduce the cost of clean milk? 



Has the cost of a comprehensive clean milk program for 

 New York City been worked out, providing for 



(1) The protection of all milk necessary for infant feed- 

 ing, and 



(2) The protection of all milk used for all purposes? 

 Will the new City milk stations increase the efficiency of the 



present infant nursing service, and will they make possible 

 reduction in the number of visits of nurses to mothers? 



Have the courts anywhere upheld restrictive or prohibitive 

 legislation on the sale of impure milk by enforcing adequate 

 penalties for violations? What is the record? 



If economies in the distribution of milk are possible, and will 

 lower the price of milk to the consumer, what steps can. be 

 taken to bring such economies about? 



Is it desirable and feasible to provide some form of mater- 

 nity insurance, enabling women who are engaged in industrial 

 employment to refrain from such work for sufficient time prior 

 to and after childbirth? 



Ladies and gentlemen, we shall await with the keenest inter- 

 est the answers given by your conference to these questions. 



In behalf of the City of New York, I wish to thank you for 

 holding your conference here. As you know, we are beset by 

 the exponents of various plans for furnishing clean and safe 

 milk. We want to do the right thing for New York's chil- 



