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value as well as to make it unfit for the delicate digestive organs of 

 infants. 



Q. Do you know whether the attitude of the medical profession of 

 that city was changed any by this epidemic? 



A. Yes. 



Q. You think they changed their minds? 



A. Yes. 



Q. You think the medical men and health officer now favor pas- 

 teurization of milk? 



A. Yes. 



Q. Is it not a fact that after this epidemic they requested or asked 

 whether some arrangement could not be made for pasteurizing milk for 

 their city? 



A. Yes. 



Q. Was there any other epidemic or disease that you have investi- 

 gated, due to milk ? 



A. Up until two years ago I had a part in investigating, I have per- 

 haps for a period of four years, every epidemic in New York State that 

 could possibly have a suspicion of being a milk-borne epidemic. I had 

 a part in the investigation of septic sore throat in Poughkeepsie, New 

 York, I think in 1915. 



Q. Will you describe as nearly as you can just what the nature of 

 the conditions were that you found in Poughkeepsie ? 



A. Do you mean community conditions? 



Q. I mean the character of the epidemic and its outbreak ? 



A. That epidemic in Poughkeepsie was an epidemic that came out 

 with a great deal of violence. The attitude on the part of the officials 

 was that it was a rather minor epidemic of scarlet fever. I think the 

 health officer had as many as eighty-two cases reported; something like 

 that. I was asked to help on a field survey of this epidemic, and in going 

 over the field, other investigators and myself found I think, nearly 800 

 cases of septic sore throat and scarlet fever in Poughkeepsie and the 

 surrounding community. 



Q. Describe just how these cases were divided up and what the 

 evidence was that you secured as to the cause of the epidemic? 



A. What do you mean by "division ?" 



Q. Please describe what you found as to the way the cases were 

 divided geographically and what evidence you found as to the cause of 

 the epidemic? 



A. The first cases, or as it turned out later, the first case was found 

 on a dairy farm near Wappingers Falls, south of Poughkeepsie; there 

 was a small group of cases there. 



Q. How far is that from Poughkeepsie? 



