FOURTH SESSION 



Saturday Evening, December 3, 1Q10, at 8:15 o'clock. 

 HENRY L. COIT, M. D., Presiding. 

 SUBJECT, MILK COMMISSIONS. 



The Chairman, Dr. Henry L. Coit, Ex-President of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Medical Milk Commissions, spoke as follows: 



LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: I deem it an honor to be asked 

 to preside at this meeting held under the auspices of the New 

 York Milk Committee, but I did not promise to make an ad- 

 dress although I am so listed in the program. 



I find some other defects in your program. I notice that I 

 have the appellation of "President of the American Associa- 

 tion of Medical Milk Commissions." This is an error: I 

 had the honor of being the first president of that association, 

 consisting of five hundred physicians who are banded together 

 for missionary work along the line of clean milk. The presi- 

 dent is Prof. Milton J. Rosenau of Harvard University, who 

 is present with us to-night. 



I notice also that Mr. Francisco is listed as the President 

 of the Association of Certified Milk Producers. Mr. Fran- 

 cisco is not the President of this Association although he was 

 its first presiding officer. 



The statement that this was to be a "Milk Commission" 

 meeting disconcerted me at first, because there is nothing in 

 the program on milk commissions. I had in my mind only the 

 Medical Milk Commission, but, properly interpreted, this New 

 York Committee is a milk commission. A National Commis- 

 sion, appointed by a Legislature, such as that represented here 

 by the gentleman from Canada is logically a milk commission. 

 That appointed by the Mayor of the City of New York a few 

 years ago to study the milk question, of which Dr. Jacobi, Dr. 

 Holt and Dr. Park were members, was a milk commission. So 

 that any milk committee with authority, appointed by some 

 agency higher in authority, is a milk commission properly so 

 called. 



The general discussion to-night will be upon methods of ob- 



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