MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 69 



In testifying before the Mayor's Committee on Milk, New York, 

 1917, Dr. L. Emmett Holt, one of the leading specialists in children's 

 diseases, stated as follows: 



"For infants during the first year, a quart of milk a day is necessary. For the 

 second year, a pint and a half. There is no food as economical at present prices 

 for the nutrition of infants as milk. * * * The habit of giving tea and coffee 

 to young children is positively injurious. For children between the ages of two 

 and six years, the daily ration of milk should be one pint per day as a minimum. 



"Dr. Lucas, of Berlin, found very greatly increased susceptibility to tubercu- 

 losis as a result of under-feeding particularly among children. I should think that 

 .after six years of age up to twelve or thirteen years, a pint of milk a day ought to 

 be allowed to all children." 



Professor Graham Lusk of Cornell University, in his testimony 

 (before the same Committee), said: 



"We cannot expect a good community dietary if that community uses less than 

 one-half quart of milk per capita per day. Unless there was that amount of milk, 

 the dietary would be seriously one-sided. The milk has exceptional value as a food 

 for growth due to the so-called vitamines. * * * It is the most important single 

 food for adults. It is more economical to produce than meat. A man confined to 

 a bread and meat diet will show deficiencies, while a man confined to a corres- 

 ponding bread and milk diet will go on indefinitely. * * * A vegetable diet will 

 always be improved by an addition of milk. If it was a question of one or the 

 other, I think it important that a man have milk rather than meat." 



Professor Graham Lusk of Cornell University, in his testimony 

 (before the same Committee), said: 



"No family of five should buy meat until they have bought at least three quarts 

 of milk. Milk contains not only protein of animal origin, but also a very valuable 

 fat which has specific properties for growth. It also contains in aqueous solution, 

 materials which prevent the development of beri-beri and pellagra. Milk is the 

 cheapest form of protein you can get. It is the most complete and sufficient food 

 that can be had. Around the dairy farms centers the proper nutrition of a nation." 



If the quantity of milk recommended by Professor Sherman and 

 Lusk were used by the consumers of Rochester, the city would consume 

 the following amounts daily : 



Quantity 

 Age. Population. Per Person. Total. 



Under 1 year 9,854 1 quart 9,854 quarts 



1 to 6 years 65,720 */ 4 " 49,290 



7 to 16 years 70,119 # * 35,059 



Over 16 years 144,307 Y 4 " 36,076 



290,000 130,279 " 



The present average supply is estimated at 90,000 quarts of milk 

 daily. The figures in the above table indicate therefore that the children 



