172 MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 



buy and sell in original packages. The answer to that was that these 

 people could buy dipped milk that was good for food for adults and not 

 dangerous you can buy cheaper than when sold in original packages. 



Q. Now, Doctor, there have been occasions when your attention 

 has been forcibly called to the contraction of typhoid fever from milk in 

 the city? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. What were some of those occasions, tell us about them? 



A. Let us read it from the record. As far as I know there has been 

 .no typhoid in Rochester traceable to milk in a number of years. 



Q. How many? 



A. Well, one's memory I hesitate about that question in giving you 

 a number; more than five I would say. How many more than five I 

 can't tell you. 



Q. On the subject of sanitation and the delivery to the people of 

 wholesale milk, what do you say ought to be done in the City of Rochester 

 that is not to secure people a supply of wholesome milk at the lowest 

 possible cost? 



A. In the first place, we will have to have some department inspec- 

 tion and laboratory service. That is the first thing. 



Q. Tell us what they would do. 



A. Simply supplement the work of the inspectorial staff that is 

 being done. We are not able under present conditions to make the num- 

 ber or kind of inspections with sufficient frequency that a reasonably 

 safe milk supply requires. 



Q. How often do you think the dealers' supply ought to be in- 

 spected ? 



A. That depends upon the dealers. Some of the dealers would need 

 very little inspection, some of them ought to be inspected every month; 

 some ought not to be in business at all. 



Q. Why are they in business? 



A. Because there is no legal way of putting them out of business, 

 and no sufficient force of inspectors to determine which ought not to be 

 in the business. 



Q. What we need then is a sufficient force so as to find which of 

 these dealers ought not to be in the business ; then we need some new ma- 

 chinery whereby we can put them out of business? 



A. It is rather an extension of the present machinery. As far as I 

 am concerned, I have no fault to find with the present machinery. The 

 present machinery is doing all that it possibly can do. It cannot stand 

 very much more stress. 



Q. Added inspection and laboratory equipment and help? 



