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to furnish anything but absolutely clean milk. And that, like 

 the domestic cow, is far in the future, and it is only by the eye 

 of faith, perhaps, that we can see it. But, by the grace of 

 God and the intelligence of the American citizen; and by just 

 such work as this Committee here in New York is doing; and 

 by our help up the State, if we can get the farmers to wake up 

 to the importance of the work ; and by the aid of such a Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture as we have heard to-day ; and by the 

 enactment of such laws as we know ought to be enacted; that 

 thing can be and will be brought about. 



THE CHAIRMAN: I see that this room is full of persons who are 

 eager to discuss these questions, and experts are here by the 

 dozen. The hour, however, is very late, and with your permis- 

 sion and that of the Chairman of the Committee, I am going to 

 call upon only one of these experts, as representing you all, and 

 that is Dr. Rosenau, late Chief of the Hygienic Laboratory of the 

 United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service in 

 Washington and now professor of Preventive Medicine and Hy- 

 giene in Harvard University, to talk to us for five minutes or so 

 upon the points which have been made here to-night. Dr. M. J. 

 Rosenau. 



DR. ROSENAU spoke as follows: 



I thank you for calling upon me, but it seems to me that the 

 hour is such that milk-imbibing citizens should be about to retire. 

 Our pail of milk to-night has been filled with instruction and elo- 

 quence, and anything that I might add would make it slop over 

 at this juncture. 



I want to say, as long as I am on my feet, Mr. Chairman, that 

 I want to congratulate you upon gathering around you this gal- 

 axy of authorities and orators, who have both entertained and 

 given us instruction to-night. It has been a great satisfaction to 

 me, as I know it must have been to the rest of the audience, to 

 notice the unanimity with which the danger has been pointed out 

 and the methods for its correction. Pasteurization is not pro- 

 posed as a method to atone for filth, nor it is proposed to bolster 

 up the dirty milk and make milk marketable that is otherwise un- 

 fit for consumption, but as a temporary expedient that is neces- 

 sary on account of the conditions that we have to meet. 



I think, in all the remarks that we have listened to, there was 

 only one kind of milk mentioned. There is a milk that should 

 be spoken of before the evening is out, and that is that milk 



