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great insight into the problems that you have in this great city. I 

 trust that Ontario, with her smaller cities and proportionately 

 greater rural population, may soon get this matter well in hand; 

 that in future it may redound through better milk and better and 

 stronger men in Ontario, to our advantage and to your own as 

 well. Because on this Continent, let us remember, are two nations 

 always striving, let us hope harmoniously, for their people's benefit, 

 and perhaps unconsciously for better things for all. 



Again, Mr. Chairman, I thank you for this opportunity of plac- 

 ing before this meeting in outline what has been done in Ontario 

 and Canada, and to thank you on behalf of my Government, for 

 the privilege you have given me of speaking. 



THE CHAIRMAN: It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you 

 Dr. William H. Park, Director of the Research Laboratories of 

 the New York Board of Health. 



DR. PARK spoke as follows: 



I asked the Chairman, for your sake, to let me off, but he, not 

 yielding to my judgment, has asked me to say a word. And I 

 remember that I, as Chairman this afternoon, announced that there 

 were a number of resolutions to be acted upon afterwards, to the 

 end that too much time might not be taken up by the speakers. 

 It is now a quarter to eleven, and I shall endeavor to be very brief. 



There are only two points that I want to touch upon, because I 

 have had a special interest and a special connection with them. 

 The first that I was going to speak on, is should medical milk com- 

 missions or should the city authorities control and guarantee the 

 certified milk? Until recently, I knew of no city that had at- 

 tempted to control the very highest class of milk. The Medical 

 Milk Commissions have been recognized as looking after that. In 

 this city, however, it is almost impossible to cover the whole milk 

 question, and to devise classes of milk in such a way that there 

 shall be no loophole without our knowing it. 



Why should not the city take the place of the Medical Milk 

 Commission? I saw, a year ago, one of the largest and best of 

 the certified milk farms, become a guaranteed farm under the city. 

 In the future it will come to be more and more a matter for de- 

 cision as to whether the city shall finally take over control of the 

 milk question. 



Now, I simply give you here my own opinion without its being 

 in any way the opinion of the Health Department. I happen to 

 be on three Medical Commissions, and in only one Health Depart- 

 ment, so I am three quarters a Medical Commissioner. It seems 

 to me, from my observation in the Department and in the Com- 

 missions, that at least for the present, the Commissions can much 



