MILK SUPPLY OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS IN ROCHESTER 



It is important to examine into the character, quality and quantity 

 of milk used by public institutions. In such institutions, especially hos- 

 pitals and asylums for children, milk is a most important article of diet, 

 and experience has shown that for financial reasons there is in most 

 municipalities a tendency to economize on the milk supply of institutions, 

 with the result that very often the quantity of milk purchased is far too 

 little for the needs of the inmates, and the quality is often so inferior 

 that it is a menace to their health. 



The replies to the questionnaires sent out by the office of the Survey 

 to Rochester public institutions are summarized in Table No. 17. 



TABLE No. 17 

 Total number of institutions ............ ............... 26 



Children under 16 years of age ......................... 975 



Adults ............................................... 4,612 



Total inmates ........................................ 5,587 



Money daily spent for milk ............................ $ 372.27 



Money daily spent for groceries ....................... 1,760.62 



Total expenditure for food ........................... 2,129.85 



Daily quarts of bottle milk used ...................... * . 350 



" " loose milk in cans used ................ 3,271 



" buttermilk used .... ................... 21.5 



" " skim milk used ................. ....... 



" cans of condensed milk used ..................... 



" quarts of cream used .......... . ................. - 39.5 



" pounds of butter used . . . \ ...................... 350.7 



" quarts of ice cream used ........................ 



Quarts of milk used daily for cooking .................. 721 



Quarts of milk used daily by children on cereals and for 



drinking ................. . ........................ 6611S6 . 



Quarts of milk used daily by adults on cereals and for 



drinking .......................................... 2,238.33 



Number of quarts of raw milk ..... .................... r 



Number of quarts of pasteurized milk ................. 73/ 



From the above information it is evident that 975 children consume 

 daily 661% quarts of milk on cereals and for drinking purposes, while 

 4,612 adults consume 2,238% quarts in the same way. No serious criti- 

 cism can be made against the quantity of milk furnished to either the 

 children or the adults, although the highest authorities now recommend 

 that every child should have available for drinking purposes at least a 

 quart of milk daily, or its equivalent. 



In Table No. 17, the money spent for milk does not include one in- 

 stitution having its own cows, and the money spent for groceries does 

 not include two institutions which did not report such expenditures. 



