174 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



Know nothing about this. (Dr. R. G. Freeman, New York, N. Y.) 



No. (Dr. M. P. Ravenel, Madison, Wis.) 



Not to my knowledge. (Dr. C. E. A. Winslow, New York, N. Y.) 



I do not know. (Health officer Baltimore, Md.) 



I do not know. (Health officer Birmingham, Ala.) 



Do not know. (Health officer Bismarck, N. Dak.) 



No. (Health officer Cleveland, Ohio.) 



Do not know. (Health officer Columbus, Ohio.) 



No. (Health officer Detroit, Mich.) 



No. (Health officer Jacksonville, Fla.) 



Not in kansas City. (Health officer Kansas City, Mo.) 



Don't know. (Health officer Lynchburg, Va.) 



I think not. (Health officer Portland, Oreg.) 



No; anyone can pasteurize milk in original package, i. e., bottles. (Health 

 officer Providence, R. I.) 



I have never heard of such a monopoly. (Health officer Richmond, Va.) 



I don't know. (Health officer Rochester, N. Y.) 



We think so. (Health officer Seattle, Walsh.) 



Do not know. (Health officer Syracuse, N. Y.) 



No. (Health officer Topeka, Kans.) 



Not that I know of. (Straus Laboratory, Washington, D. C.) 



Indications point that way. (Sharon Dairy, District of Columbia.) 



There is absolutely no monopoly controlled by the sale or production of pas- 

 teurizing machinery. All we know is that the different manufacturers fight 

 each other in the worst way for trade. (Dairy Machinery & Construction 

 Co., Derby, Conn.) 



No; manufacturers of these machines are all independent of each other and 

 in keen competition. (Creamery Package Manufacturing Co., Chicago, 111.) 



So many forms of pasteurizing machines are known that it would be very 

 hard to have any control over them, as on many of the machines patents have 

 expired, and it would be very easy for any manufacturing company to start 

 manufacturing them, or dealer to manufacture his own. (Borden's Condensed 

 Milk Co., New York, N. Y.) 



Not so far a-s I know. (Walker-Gordon Laboratory, Washington, D. C.) 



I do not know what " arrangements " exist between the different manufac- 

 turers. (Dr. S. C. Prescott, Boston, Mass.) 



I do not know. (Dr. V. C. Vaughan, Ann Arbor, Mich.) 



Don't know. (Health officer Los Angeles, Cal. ) 



No. ( J. M. Houston, White Cross Milk Co.. Washington, D. C.) 



I do not know. (Health officer Wheeling, W. Va.) 



Unable to answer. (Dr. Samuel McC: Hamill, Philadelphia, Pa.) 



I don't know. (Health officer Scranton, Pa.) 



QUESTION 8. Is a municipal pasteurization plant (or plants) in your judg- 

 ment practicable and desirable f 



ANSWERS. 



Yes. Dealers doing a large business and having proper equipment should 

 be allowed to continue pasteurization at their own plants, but under official 

 supervision. There should be a central municipal plant or plants at which the 

 milk of all other dealers should be required to be pasteurized. Such a plan 

 would have the advantage of bringing all milk under official supervision. 

 (Chief Bureau of Animal Industry.) 



As to practicability, yes. As to desirability, I do not know. (Surgeon Gen- 

 eral TJ. S. Army.) 



Yes. (Surgeon General U. S. Navy.) 



In my opinion, where thorough official supervision of private pasteurizing 

 plants is not practicable, municipal plants should take their place. (Surgeon 

 General Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.) 



I believe in strict supervision and control, but not operation. (Dr. William 

 H. Park, New York, N. Y.) 



Municipal pasteurization is impracticable and undesirable unless every quart 

 of milk brought to a community is efficiently pasteurized at or near the source 

 of production and properly refrigerated. This has not been accomplished thus 

 far. (Dr. Henry L. Coit, Newark, N. J.) 



