148 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 

 DAIRIES AND MILK COMPANIES. 



Borden's Condensed Milk Co., New York City. 



Nathan Straus Pasteurized Milk Laboratories, Washington, D. C. ; Miss Reba 

 J. Hum, manager. 



Sharon Dairy, Washington, D. C.; Corbin Thompson, proprietor. 



Sheffield Parms-Slawson Decker Co., New York City ; Loton Horton, president. 



Walker-Gordon Laboratory, Washington, D. C. 



White Cross Milk Co., of New York City. 



White Cross Milk Co., of Baltimore and Washington; J. M. Houston, bac- 

 teriologist. 



TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. 



New York Central & Hudson River R. R. Co. ; W. C. Brown, president 



Pennsylvania Railroad Co. ; J. R. Wood, passenger traffic manager. 



Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. 1 



Southern Railway Co.; W. W. Finley, president. 



Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. 1 



Atlantic Coast Line. 1 



Seaboard Air Line. 1 



APPENDIX C. 



RESPONSES RECEIVED FROM PHYSICIANS, HEALTH OFFICERS, DEALERS, 

 MANUFACTURERS, AND OTHERS QUALIFIED TO SPEAK AUTHORITATIVELY 

 ON THE SEVERAL SUBJECTS EMBRACED WITHIN THE INQUIRY OF THE 

 SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE WASHINGTON CHAMBER OF 

 COMMERCE TO INVESTIGATE THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF 

 COLUMBIA. 



TUBERCULIN TEST. 



QUESTION 1. What advantages in your judgment will result from the enforce- 

 ment of the tuberculin testf 



ANSWERS. 



The principal advantage resulting from the enforcement of the tuberculin 

 test is the elimination of the germs of tuberculosis from milk and the conse- 

 quent elimination of a great source of danger to the health of consumers, 

 especially infants. This test can also be used in a rational way to eradicate 

 tuberculosis from cattle with good economic results to the live-stock industry. 

 (Chief Bureau of Animal Industry.) 



Gradual eradication of tuberculosis in dairy cattle. (Surgeon General 

 TJ. S. Army.) 



It will give us an accurate estimate of the amount of tuberculosis present 

 in a given herd of cattle. (Surgeon General U. S. Navy.) 



The enforcement of the tuberculin test would reduce the amount of tuber- 

 culosis among dairy cattle, and free the milk supply from tubercle bacilli, with 

 the probable result that the incidence of tuberculosis among hogs fed on 

 creamery skimmed milk would be reduced and the incidence of infection with 

 the bovine tubercle bacilli among human beings would be practically elimi- 

 nated. (Surgeon General Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.) 



The removal of the greater part of tuberculosis from the herds and the re- 

 moval of all advanced cases. Animals should only be added to herds after 

 reliable test. (Dr. William H. Parks, New York, N. Y.) 



Eventual eradication of bovine tuberculosis. (Dr. Henry L. Coit, Newark, 

 N. J.) 



l No response received. 



