174 MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 



A. Yes to cut off one and let the other very large number remain. 



Q. Do you have any figures as to the portion of re-actors in the 

 territory furnishing milk to Rochester? 



A. The figures I gave you a little while ago. 



O. How much ? 



A. Somewhere between fifteen and twenty per cent. 



Q. One herd went fifty per cent. ? 

 , A. One herd was fifty per cent, tuberculous. 



Q. An average of twenty per cent.? 



A. I don't know what the average would be now. Perhaps less, 

 because farmers are taking better care of their cattle; they are doing 

 more things ; they are trying to eliminate the cow that is no longer good 

 for much, that is not paying her board. And I think by that same token 

 there are fewer tuberculous cattle in herds. 



Q. You would be in favor of the city taking over the milk business ? 



A. I am taking over the distributing end. 



Q. Not the producing end? 



A. No. 



Q. Your opinion would be based upon what was disclosed as a 

 result of a study of this kind, assuming that the study goes into the ques- 

 tion of the distribution of milk? 



A. Yes. 



Q. You mean by that, that if the study of this situation disclosed 

 that it was advisable to the city to go into the business, you would be in 

 favor of it? 



A. Yes. 



Q. And if it did not, you would not? 



A. No. 



Q. What do you think about the milk supply of the City of Roch- 

 ester ? What is your belief ? 



A. My belief, based on some considerable observation both in the 

 past and at the present time, and upon reports from the nurses working 

 in our welfare stations, and who have been familiar with the work in the 

 welfare stations and in the densely populated districts, is that our chil- 

 dren are not getting milk as they once were getting milk; not as they 

 ought to get it. Now, what else they are lacking which they might get, 

 nobody knows. As I said this morning, we are going to have examples 

 of pot-bellied children, with skeleton legs and arms. Unless we can get 

 better nutrition for our little children, we are certainly going to have a 

 race deterioration of some kind in some degree in the very near future; 

 and reasoning from biological grounds, the young, when it has been once 

 deprived of its nutrition in early life, does not readily regain that which 

 it has once lost. 



