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A. About six miles ; another group, a larger group, at Poughkeepsie, 

 and another group at the New York State Hospital, which is four or 

 five miles north of Poughkeepsie. In tracing the original cases, it was 

 found that those cases had onset these three groups of cases had onset 

 on approximately the same day. The Health Officers in each community 

 were looking for the source of the epidemic, independently of the Health 

 Officer of any other community. 



Q. Did each one of those communities think they were having their 

 own private epidemic ? 



A. Yes, and were busy looking for some manner of controlling it. 



Q. They did not think there was any connection between the three 

 of them? 



A. No. Finally it was found that previous to the onset of the 

 cases in these three communities, there was a case of a farm hand of 

 one of the dairy farms supplying milk in the creamery at Wappingers 

 Falls. This milk was traced to the consumers of Wappingers Falls and 

 to the consumers in Poughkeepsie, and a part of the supply went up to 

 the New York State Hospital. 



Q. That is, this creamery shipped milk to those three places? 



A. Yes. 



Q. Was the milk pasteurized? 



A. As I recall it, it was not pasteurized, or it was a case of the 

 milk being imperfectly pasteurized through the breaking down of the 

 pasteurizing machinery. It was not properly pasteurized. 



Q. It was supposed to be pasteurized, but the machinery broke 

 down? 



A. Yes. 



Q. It broke down at the wrong time ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. It broke down as you found it, just at the time when scarlet 

 fever existed on this farm that you refer to ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. Do you know whether the people and Poughkeepsie and these 

 other communities were in favor of pasteurizing milk before that time? 



A. No, they were not. 



Q. They were opposed to it ? 



A. They were strongly opposed to it. 



Q. Do you know anything about their attitude since the epidemic? 



A. Their attitude towards pasteurization was changed. Their at- 

 titude towards reporting communicable diseases was changed and toward 

 their old health administration has changed; they now have a substitute 

 one. 



