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VII. PASTEURIZATION Continued. Page 



General milk-delivery service recommended 108 



Alleged monopoly of manufacture of pasteurizing machinery ! 108 



VIII. BACTERIAL CONTENT 109 



Practicability and definiteness of bacterial count 109 



Number of bacteria reasonably allowable 110 



Conclusive harmfulness of high bacterial content 112 



Standards fixed in pursuance of Federal food and drugs act 113 



Uniform procedure in bacteriological examinations 113 



Compulsory pasteurization would not dispense with necessity for 



prescribed bacterial count 114 



Necessity for additional precautions 115 



Apparent anomaly as regards sour milk 115 



IX. CARE OF MILK IN THE HOME 116 



Precautions recommended 116 



Observance of precautions by consumers 118 



X. INFANT FEEDING AND INFANTS' MILK DEPOTS 118 



Cow's milk as infant food 118 



Establishment of infants' milk depots 119 



Certified milk. 119 



Breast feeding decidedly preferable to bottle feeding 120 



Modified milk 121 



Nutritiyeness of modified milk 121 



Susceptibility of modified milk to deterioration 121 



Relative cost of modified milk 122 



Infants' milk depots 122 



Disposal of local Straus depot 



Important function of visiting nurses 126 



XI. PREPARED MILKS 



What may be properly classed as prepared milks 



Condensed or evaporated milk s . 



Nutritiveness of condensed milks 



Susceptibility of condensed milks to deterioration ,128 



Effect of sanitary restrictions on demand for prepared milks 



Price of prepared milks 



Concentrated milk 130 



Powdered milk 



Skim (skimmed) or separated milk 



Considerable economic value of skim milk 



XII. MILK PRODUCTS -. 132 



Cream 132 



Ice cream 



Buttermilk 



Necessity for maintaining milk products at low temperatures 



Remedial legislation recommended 134 



XIII. SUMMARY RECOMMENDATIONS 134 



APPENDIXES 



INDEX.. 42 



LIST OF APPENDIXES, 



Pago." 



A. Series of questions addressed to health officers, etc 



B. List of individuals and establishments addressed 14* 



C. Responses received to series of questions propounded by committee 14S 



D . Correspondence with transportation companies - ^>i 



E Communication addressed to president of Milk Producers' Association of 



Maryland, Virginia, and District of Columbia joj 



F. List of publications consulted by committee - - - - : - - - - - ^ 00 



G. Laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, etc., concerning the production and dis- 



tribution of milk in certain municipalities throughout the United States. M 



H. Communications from Mr. Herbert P. Carter * 



I . Testimony at hearing before District Commissioners . . .. . ........ tot 



J. Communication from A. S. Trundle, representing the Dairymen s Associa- 

 tion of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, dated Nov. 

 20,1910 



