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diseases at an early age and show signs of early age; early as the statis- 

 tics of insurance companies just mentioned, show. All these correlate 

 so well with animal experimentation, that I am inclined to think that since 

 we know that large groups of people are living on that diet, that the 

 early ageing we have observed is in a great measure the result of 'a faulty 

 diet. I believe this so strongly that I have been giving a considerable 

 amount of attention to urging the public to use more of those foods 

 which in our experience with animals improve the diet and well being 

 of the animal and prolong the period of youthful vigor and postpone 

 the onset of old age. 



Q. By that you mean that in your opinion the use of milk and dairy 

 products would postpone the onset of old age? 



A. I think there is but little question that that is true. 



Q. In the case of infants and the children after weaning, we will 

 say after the age of two years ; do you consider that the growth of that 

 child will be retarded if it does not use a sufficient quantity of milk? 



A. There is no question in my mind that that is true. I make that 

 statement on the basis of a very considerable number of observations of 

 children in Baltimore. . 



Q. Will you state what those observations were? 



A. In one series of observations I examined the children in a cer- 

 tain orphan home in Baltimore. These children are fed almost entirely 

 on a cereal and meat diet. They are surprisingly undersized ; tuberculosis 

 is astonishingly prevalent in that institution, although the hygienic condi- 

 tions are everything that could be desired ; the building is relatively new, 

 a lot of air; it has the best toilet facilities and surrounded by acres of 

 playgrounds with woods on it, and the children run out doors and play 

 when they are very small. Some months ago I secured by private gift, 

 funds for the feeding of these children so far as these funds would go, 

 and unfortunately, they did not reach throughout the institution. But I 

 have selected about one-half of the children between four and five years 

 of age and have been giving them for about five months now, a liberal 

 amount of milk in addition to the cereal and meat diet which the institu- 

 tion itself regularly feeds them, and that is the same as fed to the rest 

 of the children in that institution, that is, with cereal and meat diet. And 

 we have kept accurate measurements of weight and height, of certain sim- 

 ple strength tests, the muscles of the arms and legs of a similar group of 

 about forty which the institution has continued to feed. These two 

 groups contrast in the most remarkable fashion; those which we fed a 

 liberal amount of milk in addition to what the institution was feeding 

 have responded in nearly all cases except in three or four where the 

 children are badly infected with tuberculosis. Their response and gain 

 in weight was unbelievable unless you could see the tables. 



