MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 73 



Q. Have you got figures to show what it cost the city to operate 

 those stations? 



A. I have got figures to show what the station operation costs, yes, 

 but they are grouped ; do you want that now ? 



Q. Perhaps we might as well have it now as long as you are on that 

 subject? 



A. Let me give you this first, getting back to the cost of the milk 

 to the mothers; in 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915 and 1916, it was 8 cents 

 a quart. 



Mr. Pierce: Grade A pasteurized? 

 Witness: Yes. 



In 1917 it started with 9 cents, 9^, 10^, 12 and 12 J^.' In 1918 it 

 started with 13>^ ; went down to 12, 12^, 13, 15 and 16. In 1919 it 

 started with 14 cents, and today it is 15 cents a quart. 



Q. Those changes were due to changes in the market price of 

 milk? 



A. Yes. 



Q. What did the New York Milk Committee, which you represent, 

 have to do with the establishment of these stations ? 



A. They started the milk station experiment in New York City. 



Q. How many stations did they establish of their own? 



A. Thirty-one. 



Q. Before the city took them over? 



A. Yes, and they added to them since until now they have sixty. 



Q. About how many babies a da,y are fed at these stations? 



A. In 1918 there were 46,182 indWidual babies. 



By Mr. Pierce: / 



Q. A quart to a child? 



A- In 1918 there were 5,815,425 quarts of milk dispensed. 



Q. Have you analyzed that to show what is given to a child ? 



A. Per capita daily? No, I have not; it does not mean that each 

 one of those babies had a quart of milk a day during the year, but there 

 were that many individual babies registered at the stations. 



By Dr. North: 



O. Do these stations operate the year around? 



A. They do, yes. 



Q. Are they so located that children in any part of the city can get 

 milk there ? 



A. No, I would not say that; they are located according to the 

 need of the community. If you have a community where there are ten 

 children that need milk stations very badly you would not prefer that 

 community in locating a station to a community that had a thousand 



