70 MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 



and adults of Rochester should use at least 40,000 quarts more milk than 

 they now consume. The milk recommended for children under one year 

 if not consumed directly by the child should be consumed by nursing 

 mothers if the child is to receive proper nourishment. The latest re- 

 searches of Professor McCollum, as testified to by him, indicate that 

 every person can consume daily one quart of milk or its equivalent in 

 other dairy products to the advantage of their health and strength. These 

 other products refer to butter, cheese, condensed milk, cream, etc. If 

 Rochester should follow the advice of Professor McCollum it would 

 therefore consume daily 290,000 quarts of milk, or its equivalent in dairy 

 products. 



Dr. John R. Williams of Rochester, in his testimony at a public 

 hearing held in the City Hall on August 13, 1919, made the following 

 statements regarding the food value of milk : 



I would like to introduce a photograph here in evidence, if accept- 

 able, showing the value of milk for children. I have here a photograph 

 of six children ; three of them have been fed or liked milk and were fed 

 liberally on milk from early infancy right up to the present time; the 

 other three were not fed on milk, they took a dislike for it and were not 

 encouraged to use milk, and the result is that the children not fed on 

 milk show a lack of vitality and a lack of growth, which was very 

 strongly absent with milk- fed children. The parents of the children who 

 were fed on milk are smaller than those of the children not fed on milk 

 and these children are the same age by pairs. 



I found a larg'e number of children were using condensed milk in 

 my study of conditions in Rochester. I appealed to the wholesale groc- 

 ers of Rochester and they were able to tell me there was practically 

 no condensed milk imported into Rochester by jobbers that practically all 

 the condensed milk sold here was sold through wholesale grocers, and 

 they gave me access to their figures, and they told me that condensed 

 milk was sold in Rochester to the extent of two million cans a year, and 

 I found a large number of people were using condensed milk. 



Q. What do you say about the use of condensed milk, doctor ? 



A. I think it is much inferior to cow's milk. 



Q. In process, it is sweetened? 



A. Yes, I think its food value is much inferior; I think it lacks 

 the essential properties of growth production. 



