180 CONFERENCE ON MILK PROBLEMS 



pure milk are contained in four government publications, and 

 in articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association. 

 The four government publications are: 



1. "Report on Typhoid Fever in the District of Columbia," 

 submitted by the Medical Society of the District of Columbia 

 to the Committee on the District of Columbia of the United 

 States House of Representatives, June 14*, 1894, and published 

 by Congress as a congressional document in 1894. 



2. "Sanitary Milk Production." Report, of a Conference 

 appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. 

 Issued August 20, 1907, by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture as Circular 114* of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



3. "Milk and its Relation to the Public Health," issued in 

 January, 1908, by the United States Treasury Department as 

 Bulletin 41 of the Hygienic Laboratory of the Public Health 

 and Marine Hospital Service (revised and issued January, 

 1910, as Bulletin 56). 



4. "The Dissemination of Disease by Dairy Products, and 

 Methods for Prevention," issued April 28, 1910 as Circular 

 153, Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture. 



The articles in The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation are: 



1. "The Milk Supply of Washington, D. C.," read by me 

 in the Section of Hygiene and Sanitary Science of the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association in June, 1907, and published in the 

 Journal, September 28, 1907, Vol. XLIX, pp. 1088-1093. 



2. "Further Observations on the Milk Supply of Washing- 

 ton, D. C.," also read by me in the same Section of the Asso- 

 ciation, 'June, 1910, and published in the Journal, August 13, 

 1910, Vol. LV, pp. 581-589. 



These publications showed that the Washington water sup- 

 ply was not the cause of the high typhoid rate. They dem- 

 onstrated that the contaminated water supplies on the dairy 

 farms, and contaminated milk, were important factors. 



Copies of these and other government publications can be 

 obtained by applying to the respective departments. It will 

 be seen that all of them with the exception of the two papers 

 read before the American Medical Association are the products 

 of a number working together either in committee, in confer- 

 ence, or by the assembling of monographs. 



