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10. Have you seen any evidence or indication of a milk trust or combine to 

 control raw-milk production or milk supply of the District of Columbia ' or 

 elsewhere? 



11. Have you seen indications of a trust to control the production or distribu- 

 tion of prepared, condensed, concentrated, or other forms of milk other than 

 the raw milk in the District of Columbia or elsewhere? 



12. Is it practicable, in your judgment, to maintain a temperature not exceed- 

 ing 50 F. on delivery wagons? 



13. What is condensed milk? 



14. Is it as nutritious as raw milk? 



15. Is it as susceptible to deterioration as raw milk? 



16. Is it as susceptible to deterioration as pasteurized milk? 



17. What are the advantages of concentrated milk? 



18. Is modified milk as nutritious as raw milk? 



19. Is it as digestible as raw milk? 



20. Is it as suspectible to deterioration as raw milk? 



21. Is it as susceptible to deterioration as pasteurized milk? 



22. How does its price compare with that of raw milk? 



23. What effect does freezing have on the qualities of milk? 



24. Have attempts been made, so far as you know, to secure legislation from 

 Congress governing the production, transportation, or distribution of milk or 

 milk products throughout the United States under the authority for regulating 

 commerce between the several States? 



HEALTH DEPARTMENTS. 



1. Please state what regulations, if any, relating to the production, transporta- 

 tion, and delivery of milk have been promulgated in your jurisdiction, and also 

 what State or municipal laws or ordinances have been adopted relating to the 

 same subject? 



2. Is the compulsory insistence on the tuberculin test, in your judgment, 

 practicable and advisable? 



3. Is the insistence on a maximum temperature of 50 F. from the time of 

 production to the delivery to the consumer practicable and desirable? 



4. Is a prescribed bacterial count feasible and advisable? 



5. If so, what maximum number of bacteria should be specified? 



6. Is pasteurization, in your judgment, advantageous? 



7. Does pasteurization tend to preserve milk? 



8. Is compulsory pasteurization, in your judgment, practicable and advisable? 



9. What effect, in your judgment, would compulsory pasteurization have upon 

 the wholesale and retail price of milk in winter and summer? 



10. Is the requirement that cows be stabled on concrete floors practicable? 



11. Does such requirement tend to cause rheumatism in the animal? 



12. What other requirements in addition to the foregoing would you suggest 

 with a view to improving condition of milk? 



13. Kindly furnish copies of any data in your possession relating to the 

 regulation of milk production, distribution, and consumption which may be serv- 

 iceable in the investigations of the chamber of commerce committee. 



14. Are there any regulations in your jurisdiction governing the sale of pre- 

 pared, condensed, modified, or powdered milks? 



APPENDIX B. 



ADDRESSES TO WHICH SERIES OF INQUIRIES RELATING TO PRODUCTION, 

 TRANSPORTATION, AND DISTRIBUTION OF MILK AND ITS RELATION TO 

 THE PUBLIC HEALTH WERE MAILED. 



OFFICIALS OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. 



Dr. George H. Torney, Surgeon General, United States Army. 

 Dr. C. F. Stokes, Surgeon General, United States Navy. 



Dr. Walter Wyman, Surgeon General, United States Public Health and 

 Marine-Hospital Service, Treasury Department. 



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