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were at that time. I think for the benefit of the record it might be well 

 to put in, that during September, 1911, our 31 stations cost $9,227.35. It 

 does not show here the number- of babies, but the number of babies were 

 31,128, I think, something like that, but the cost per baby was .0634, 

 that is, it is six and one-third cents a day was the actual cost to us. 



Q. To take care of one baby? 



A. One baby for one day. 



Q. Is there any way in New York City that the infants and chil- 

 dren can get milk as cheaply as they can get it at the milk station? 



A. No, there is not. 



Q. There is no way? 



A. No. 



Q. They are getting the cheapest milk there that they can get of 

 that grade ? 



A. For the quality. May I add there that the charge is sometimes 

 made that the milk dealers are killing the babies because of the high 

 price of milk. My personal opinion Is that milk dealers killed the babies 

 of New York City when they were selling milk at 4 cents a quart. Dur- 

 ing those times the infant mortality rate was over 200 per thousand. 



Q. How do you account for that ? 



A. That milk cannot be produced and sold and delivered to the 

 consumer in a sanitary character and was not so sold and delivered when 

 milk retailed at four cents a quart. The result was that milk contributed, 

 because of its unsanitary character, to the high infant mortality rate. 

 New York City has the best, or as good a milk supply as any other city in 

 the world, and has the least infant mortality rate of any large city in the 

 world. It is all because of the fact that the people of New York City 

 have been educated to realize the value of a safe milk supply for infants' 

 feeding. 



Q. You consider the quality of the milk has got to be taken into 

 consideration in feeding infants and children as well as the price? 



A. I think the quality of the milk comes far before the price. Price 

 has nothing to do with it if the quality is not there. 



Q. What kind of milk were the people buying for their infants and 

 children before these stations were established ? 



A. Milk that would not to-day, according to all the recommenda- 

 tions of the National Commission on Milk Standards, come up to Grade 

 C pasteurized. 



Q. The lowest grade of milk sold in the city ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. Where were they getting it ? 



A. There were a lot of small dealers in the city, a lot of dairy 



