MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 1?5 



TESTIMONY OF MR. F. E. GANNETT 



MR. F. E. GANNETT, who appeared as a witness at a public hearing, 

 held at the City Hall, Rochester, N. Y., on July 23, 1919, gave the follow- 

 ing statement: 



Q. You have been in the newspaper business for some time, I 

 believe? 



A. Yes, about twenty years. 



Q. During the past year, you paid special attention to the subject 

 of milk in the City of Rochester and its production outside, etc.? 



A. Yes. 



Q. Will you tell us yi your own way what you have done about that 

 and what you have ascertained and what your conclusions are that you 

 found out ? r ; 



A. Well, my attention was first called to the milk situation in Roch- 

 ester a year ago when I looked over the report of the Health Bureau of 

 the city. That report was so astounding to me that I began to look into 

 the question. The report for July, 19,18, for instance, showed that there 

 were ten dealers selling milk here with a bacteria count of over five mil- 

 lion; there were eighteen selling milk with over three million counts. 

 There were forty-one with over a million counts. Of this whole number 

 only nineteen were pasteurized. 



I had had the impression from living out of the city that Rochester 

 milk supply was about the best in the country and I was quite amazed to 

 find that they were not only not protected against impure milk, but that 

 most of the milk had a very high bacteria count from those figures ap- 

 parently. 



SANITARY CONDITION OF ROCHESTER MILK SUPPLY 

 DAIRY FARM SANITATION 



The dairy farm inspectors who were employed by the Survey to visit 

 dairy farms, did so with two purposes in view. In the first place they 

 made studies of the cost of milk production j and in addition to this they 

 made inspections of the dairy on each farm to determine the sanitary 

 conditions. For the purpose of the sanitary inspection they used a printed 

 report blank which was especially prepared for this work, and noted 

 thereon a statement of the condition of the buildings and equipment and 

 the manner in which all of the dairy operations were performed. One 

 hundred and forty-one dairy farms located in each of the important dis- 

 tricts from which Rochester milk is furnished, were inspected in this 

 way, and report blanks from each farm returned to the office of the Sur- 

 vey. From these blanks a summary was prepared, which shows the 

 results of these sanitary inspections, as indicated in Table No. 87. 



