APPENDIXES. 



APPENDIX A. 



SERIES OF QUESTIONS ADDRESSED BY THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE 

 WASHINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO HEALTH OFFICERS, ETC., 

 ELICITING INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SUBJECT OF ITS INQUIRY. 



THE WASHINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 



Washington, D. C., November 8, 1910. 



DEAR SIR: In order that the special committee appointed by the chamber of 

 commerce to investigate the milk situation in the District of Columbia may 

 have the fullest information obtainable for use in its deliberations, I venture 

 to inclose a list of questions, with the request that you will kindly furnish re- 

 sponses to such of the inquiries as you may find it practicable to answer. 



Assuring you that any information that you may be good enough to supply 

 will be of great value to the committee in arriving at intelligent conclusions, I 

 am, thanking you in advance for your courtesy, 

 Respectfully, yours, 



J. Louis WILLIGE, Chairman. 



INFORMATION REQUESTED BY SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY WASHINGTON 

 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO INVESTIGATE THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT 

 OF COLUMBIA. 



TUBERCULIN TEST. 



1. What advantages in your judgment will result from the enforcement of the 

 tuberculin test? 



2. To what extent is the tuberculin test reliable? 



3. What effect in your judgment would its enforcement have on the price of 

 cattle? 



4. In your judgment, should the expense of the test be defrayed by the Gov- 

 ernment or the owner? 



5. What is the approximate 'expense of applying the tuberculin test? 



6. What length of time is required in applying the test? 



7. Granting that the test should be applied only by governmental authorities 

 or qualified agents duly authorized thereby, would it be practicable and ad- 

 visable to restrict the use of tuberculin and its application to such authorized 

 officials or agents? 



8. Should the owner be compensated for cattle condemned, and on what basis 

 of payment? 



9. In the absence of compulsory pasteurization, should tests other than the 

 tuberculin test be required to safeguard against typhoid, diphtheria, and other 

 deleterious germs? 



10. Assuming that the tuberculin test is indicative only of tuberculous condi- 

 tions, are there any other tests which should be applied for the detection of 

 typhoid, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or other germs? 



BACTERIAL COUNT. 



1. Is the bacterial count reliable, and an indication of unsatisfactory condi- 

 tions? 



2. Do bacteriologists working independently arrive at approximately the same 

 results in examining samples of a given milking? 



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