48 MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 



their inmates of an epidemic of infectious diseases, due to milk infected 

 by dairy animals or dairy employees. The record of such institutional 

 epidemics is a long one, and it has only been a matter of good fortune that 

 the institutions which are supplied with this raw milk have escaped. The 

 pasteurization of an institutional milk supply is now recognized as neces- 

 sary to safeguard the inmates from epidemics of infectious diseases. 



