150 CONFERENCE ON MILK PROBLEMS 



to help out the Health Department and to put into immediate effect 

 something which will be good for the children. 



MR. DANA: Mr. Chairman, I think there is confusion here 

 somewhere. The resolution formerly adopted was with reference 

 to the great body and mass of market milk, while this resolution is 

 with reference to a segment of milk, known as baby milk. 



DR. GREEN: Mr. Chairman, I wish to utter my protest against 

 advising any mother to feed her child raw milk, no matter from 

 what source the milk is secured. Certified milk is the best and 

 most free from infectious germs. Those of you who are familiar 

 with the matter know that the cows in the herd, although they 

 are tuberculin tested when the annual test is made, are not alto- 

 gether free from tuberculosis. A number of cows are almost in- 

 variably withdrawn from the herd because they show tuberculous 

 infection. It seems to me absolutely imperative that no mother 

 should be told that just because a milk is certified milk, it is not at 

 all necessary for her to heat it. This resolution distinctly says that 

 it is to be fed raw. I think it is unnecessary to say that it should 

 be fed raw, because it certainly is not, at times, free from infectious 

 germs. 



THE CHAIRMAN: This, I think does not say to feed it raw. 



DR. GREEN: It says that milk should be given raw, as I re- 

 member the reading of it. 



THE CHAIRMAN: It says that it is reasonably safe for babies in 

 a raw state. Now, it is my idea, that we are adopting the opinion 

 of the majority of infant feeders, but many, like Dr. Coit, pas- 

 teurize their certified milk. 



DR. GREEN: Then why say they may take it raw? Any- 

 thing that is only reasonably safe should not be given to infants. 



THE CHAIRMAN: Because, if we say "reasonably safe" we are 

 covering the opinion of a majority. 



DR. SHROEDER: I would advise leaving that clause in there. 

 We specifically state that it is reasonably safe, and we do not say 

 it is absolutely safe, and we must bear in mind that we have one 

 very important fact to deal with, and that is the enormous preju- 

 dice that there is in favor of raw milk among physicians, and it 

 is a good thing to be able to point to a reasonably safe article. It 

 supplies a present demand. I personally demonstrated on this 

 platform yesterday that I will consider no milk, except milk pas- 

 teurized under official supervision, as safe. I would not feed the 

 ibest raw milk that is made to a person in whom I am interested, and 

 yet, I advocate retaining that clause, because, as I said a moment 

 #go, we are up against that fact, the prejudice on the part of a 



