10 THEHK SITV T X*r?0*tf IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



Dr. G^rg^'M.^Whii^^er, in c&arge of market-milk investigations, 

 Dairy Divisibri/ 



With a view to eliciting information from individuals qualified to 

 s^eak with authority on the subject of milk production, transporta- 

 tion, and distribution, as well as with regard to the relation of milk 

 to the public health, series of categorical questions were addressed to 

 the health officers of the leading cities and toAvns of the United 

 States; the Milk Producers' Association of Maryland, Virginia, and 

 the District of Columbia; the Dairymen's Association of the District 

 of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia ; large milk producers supply- 

 ing the New York market; the Nathan Straus Pasteurizing Labora- 

 tory, New York City; the White Cross Milk Co., of New York, and 

 of Baltimore and Washington; Dr. T. Alexander Geddes, of Ken- 

 sington, Md. ; certain local milk dealers; and the following-named 

 specialists, eminent in their professions and of national and even in- 

 ternational reputation, on the subject of sanitary milk production 

 and the relation of the milk problem to the conservation of the public 

 health: 



Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, general medical officer, department of 

 health, New York City ; * Dr. Henry L. Coit, Newark, N. J. ; Dr. 

 Rowland G. Freeman, of New York City ; Dr. Samuel McC. Hamill, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. ; Dr. Mazyck P. Ravenel, University of Wisconsin, 

 Madison, Wis. ; Dr. William T. Sedgwick, Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, Boston, Mass.; Dr. Theobald Smith, Harvard Univer- 

 sity, Cambridge, Mass.; Dr. William H. Park, New York City; Dr. 

 Samuel C. Prescott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, 

 Mass.; Prof. Victor C. Vaughan, University of Michigan, Ann 

 Arbor, Mich.; Prof. Frank F. Wesbrook, University of Minnesota, 

 Minneapolis, Minn. ; and Dr. C. E. A. Winslow, College of City of 

 New York, New York City. 



A similar series of questions was addressed to the following : 



The Secretary of Agriculture; the Surgeon General United States 

 Army; the Surgeon General United States Navy; the Surgeon Gen- 

 eral United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. 



Information in response to the same questions was solicited also, 

 by correspondence, from Borden's Condensed Milk Co., New York 

 City ; Mr. Stephen Francisco, Montclair, N. J. ; l the Sheffield 

 Farms-Slawson-Decker Co., New York City; the Bureau of Munici- 

 pal Research, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mr. George M. Oyster, jr., 1 Mr. 

 E. L. Cockrell, and the Walker-Gordon Laboratory, of Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Among those to whom the committee is indebted for facilitating its 

 investigations should be mentioned Mr. Oliver T. Newman, of the 

 editorial staff of the Washington Times. 



A copy of the series of questions is submitted herewith (Appendix 

 A), as also a list of the individuals and establishments to which the 

 inquiries were addressed (Appendix B). 



Letters were also indited to the presidents of the steam railway 

 companies entering Washington, and, for purposes of comparison, 

 to the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co., asking for 

 information concerning the possibility of installing adequate refrig- 

 erator-car service, the cost of refrigeration, and other information 



o response received. 



