MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 



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the quantity of milk fed to children in the Infants' Summer Home, which 

 is approximately one quart daily, and the quantity furnished to children 

 in the hospitals, it is clear that the orphan asylums are not feeding to their 

 children nearly sufficient quantities of milk. An examination of the milk 

 fed to adults shows that in the three homes for the aged, these old people 

 are receiving .13, .30, and .44 quarts of milk daily. Food experts now 

 recognize that old people should be supplied with an abundance of milk, 

 as milk is far more suited to their digestion than other forms of food. 

 The quantity of milk supplied in these homes for the aged is less than is 

 necessary to maintain the health and strength of these people. 



In another manner the milk supply of these institutions has been 

 tabulated by summarizing the child population, and the quarts of milk 

 used by children, and the adult population and the quarts of milk used 

 by adults. These summaries are prepared for the purpose of showing 

 how the character of the group of institutions is related to the quantity of 

 milk used. 



TABLE No. 19 



From Table No. 19 it appears that the per capita consumption of 

 milk for children in orphan asylums is by far the lowest of the consump- 

 tion of children in any other institutions. Under a proper system of 

 feeding, one would expect that the milk consumed by children in orphan 

 asylums would be in excess of the quantity of milk consumed in other in- 

 stitutions, or at least its equivalent. On the other hand, in old people's 

 homes the per capita consumption for adults is lower than the consump- 

 tion for adults in either hospitals or penal institutions. 



In the matter of the sanitation of their milk supply, these institu- 

 tions are open to serious criticism. There are only 737 quarts of milk 

 pasteurized while 2,884 quarts are raw milk. Nineteen institutions out 

 of twenty-six have their supply strictly limited to raw milk. This means 

 that these institutions are constantly exposed to the sudden onset among 



