FIRST SESSION 



Friday Afternoon, December 2, two o'clock. 

 MR. STEPHEN FRANCIS, Presiding. 



SUBJECT, MILE ECONOMICS. 



The conference was called to order by Mr. Wilbur C. Phillips, 

 Secretary, New York Milk Committee. 



Mr. Phillips said: 



This meeting has been called by the New York Milk Committee 

 for the purpose of discussing some of the problems concerning 

 the milk supply. One of the purposes of the Milk Committee in 

 calling this conference was to afford an opportunity for the voic- 

 ing of public opinion on milk matters. This will be done in the 

 form of resolutions, which will be introduced by Dr. Wile, the 

 Chairman of the Program Committee, at the end of each session. 

 Persons who desire to introduce resolutions can introduce those 

 resolutions through Dr. Wile, by presenting them to him in writ- 

 ten form before the end of the conference, 



In the absence of the Chairman of the Milk Committee, who is 

 unavoidably detained, I take pleasure in introducing the Hon. John 

 Purroy Mitchel, President of the Board of Aldermen of New 

 York City. 



MR. MITCHELL spoke as follows: 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME 



LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It is my agreeable duty to wel- 

 come you here on behalf of the City of New York. You are 

 met here to consider one of the most important problems that 

 confronts this community, and all the metropolitan communi- 

 ties of this country. Tersely put, I think it can be said to be 

 this: How can we so protect the milk supply as to make in- 

 testinal diseases of infants fed with cows' milk, as rare as 

 smallpox? That, really is your problem. 



This whole question is past the point when the necessity for 

 milk protection is open to discussion. We know that of six- 

 teen thousand infants under the age of one year who die an- 

 nually in this city, approximately four thousand deaths are 



