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a let down at one time, we could do a little more work of one kind than 

 another, and to test, as I said in my letter, it would then have taken us 

 a year to do that sort of work, and we could not begin until after the 

 summer season was over, because the glass factories were shut down, 

 and we had worn out our centrifugal machines in getting out these 

 samples of milk. 



Q. That is the last that has been done in regard to the tubercular 

 test? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. There is not any reason why you should not have gone out the 

 next year, when you got ypur machinery ? 



A. No, sir, there was not. 



Q. And so since 1910 there has not been any test made to indicate 

 whether or not tubercular milk was being furnished to the people of the 

 City of Rochester? 



A. No, sir. 



Q. Do you believe it is being furnished? 



A. I am sure of it. 



Q. What is the reason that your Department does not go on with it? 



A. I have not the help. 



Q. How much help should you have to do it then, what help to go 

 on with this work? 



A. We should have at the present time two or three additional 

 milk inspectors. We are -not able to do it with the milk inspectors now 

 as it should be done; an additional chemist, because the work is alto- 

 gether too much for one chemist; and one bacteriologist. We have had 

 work pile up in a very considerable way, and work that was quite as im- 

 portant as this, and this is only a sample of the kind of piece work we 

 attempted to do to see whether the people of Rochester were interested. 

 But they were not interested; and the Milk Commission was not inter- 

 ested. The Milk Commission was not interested in getting ordinary milk 

 tested to see whether the ordinary babies would have milk from tuber- 

 culin tested cows. They were only interested in testing certified milk. 



Q. With two or three inspectors and an additional chemist you 

 could go ahead testing all the cows from which milk comes ? 



A. Very well, yes, sir, and put the burden of proof on the big com- 

 panies to show that the herds from which they get milk are free from 

 tuberculins. From five to seven per cent, of all tuberculosis was I don't 

 know what the figures are now due to bovine tuberculosis. 



Q. Is the guinea pig test still in vogue ? 



A. I don't know. 



Q. Did you lose all interest in the matter ? 



A. I did lose all interest. I have lost absolutely all interest in the 



