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there. Although none of the children of the farm came to any 

 harm, that milk, after coming to New York, would tell an en- 

 tirely different story. 



I remember also another day when I went up on the Harlem 

 Railroad. We had been using some milk in the laboratory on 

 some kitten experiments, and the kittens had died while on the milk, 

 and I went up near Pawling to see the conditions. That was in July, 

 and I found that milk being delivered into express cars, with the 

 doors open, and with no ice, and at a temperature away above 

 ninety, and that milk came to the City that way. Now, it seems to 

 me that pictures like these will cause thousands of us in the City 

 to demand better things. It will make those in the country realize 

 that this milk is not in the physical condition, when it goes to the 

 children in New York, that it is when it goes to the children on the 

 farm. As Dr. Rosenau said last night, we need to add to the 

 other kinds of milk, the "Milk of Human Kindness," and there- 

 fore we must remember that if we had to get up at three or four 

 o'clock in the morning, we might not always be sweet tempered and 

 do right, and we might forget the infants that were taking our 

 milk. But we must protect our milk, and we must insist upon their 

 giving us good milk, and I am sure that with proper reiteration, 

 we will find that they will do the proper thing. Now, I have 

 here a short statement which is believed to represent Commis- 

 sioner Lederle's ideas. He expected fully to be here this after- 

 noon, but at the last minute he telephoned to me, from his country 

 place, that he could not come, as he was not well enough, and 

 he asked Mr. Burton and me, to put together what we knew to be 

 his ideas, from talking it over with him within the last week. So 

 I believe I am giving his ideas in these few pages, although they 

 have been put together by Mr. Burton and me, Mr. Burton being 

 in charge of the country milk inspectors, under Mr. Raynor, who 

 is in charge of the Country Division. This, as I say, sets forth 

 the Commissioner's ideas, so far as we know them from conversa- 

 tions during the past few days. 



THE PRESENT METHOD OF SANITARY CONTROL OF 

 NEW YORK CITY'S MILK SUPPLY 



The ideal aimed at by the Department of Health of this 

 city the ideal on which every effort of the Milk Inspection 

 Corps is centered, is to have the milk supply a safe supply. 

 "Certified" and "Guaranteed" Milk, I believe, need no defense. 

 Such milk from tuberculin tested cows, handled by persons free 

 from disease, bottled on the farm in sterile containers, kept 



