196 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



No. Should be instructed by health department circulars and then made to 

 take their own chances. (Health officer Burlington, Vt.) 



Could never be enforced. (Health officer Cleveland, Ohio.) 



No; providing this does not apply to boarding houses, hotels, hospitals, etc. 

 (Health officer Columbus, Ohio.) 



Educational. (Health officer Detroit, Mich.) 



Yes. (Health officer Jacksonville, Fla.) 



Yes. (Health officer Kansas City, Mo.) 



No; only printed advice given, which patrons slowly learn to follow. (Health 

 officer Lynchburg, Va.) 



Education is all, I think, that could be accomplished along this line. (Health 

 officer Montclair, N. J.) 



Yes. (Health officer Portland, Oreg.) 



Yes; make deliveries of milk be made in original packages only. (Health 

 officer Providence, R. I.) 



Such requirements can be reasonably made, but they can not always be 

 enforced. We have such regulations, but not everybody lives up to them. 

 .(Health officer Richmond, Va.) 



I know of none. (Health officer Rochester, N. Y.) 



I do not think so. Of course, you can compel the bottle to be washed, 

 but then you have no assurance that even diseased germs have been removed. 

 I believe that education in the home to be our greatest safeguard in this 

 respect. (Health officer Seattle, Wash.) 



Yes. (Health officer Syracuse, N. Y.) 



No; education alone can accomplish results. (Health officer Topeka, Kans.) 



If possible. (John Thomas, Ednor, Md., president Milk Producers' Asso- 

 ciation.) 



No; and should not be attempted. (Sharon Dairy, District of Columbia.) 



Requirements could not be made, or, rather, could not be enforced regarding 

 any action which consumers would have to take. Consumers, however, should 

 be cautioned in regard to the necessary care which they should take and advised 

 as to the results of the disregard of such caution. They, however, should be 

 compelled to thoroughly clean and scald any and all utensils which contained 

 milk and which containers are to be returned to the dealer. (Borden's Con- 

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



Yes ; but education of the consumer to the need of carrying out these regula- 

 tions would seem the only possible method of enforcing them. (Walker-Gordon 

 Laboratory, Washington, D. C.) 



Yes. (Dr. V. C. Vaughan, Ann Arbor, Mich.) 



I fail to see how consumer can be " compelled " to exercise caution with 

 his own property if he chooses not to do so. (Dr. S. C. Prescott, Boston, Mass.) 



No. (Health officer Los Angeles, Cal.) 



Serve after 7 a. m. Here is where much of the trouble starts. Educate the 

 public by literature and the public press. Surround the dealer with rigid rules 

 and regulations. (J. M. Houston, White Cross Milk Co., Washington, D. C.) 



Would be impossible to enforce. (Health officer San Francisco, Cal.) 



Requirements might aid a great deal, but it is a question whether or not 

 such requirements could be legally enforced. (Health officer St. Joseph, Mo.) 



I doubt if the consumer could be compelled. We try to persuade and educate 

 him by the distribution of pamphlets on " care of milk in the home." (Health 

 officer Wheeling, W. Va.) 



We doubt if legal requirements could be made; but the dealers could be re- 

 quired to deliver the milk at such hours as to make it possible for the consumer 

 to receive the milk into his house immediately upon its delivery. (Dr. Sinuel 

 McC. Hamill, Philadelphia, Pa.) 



Yes. (Health officer Scranton, Pa.) 



QUESTION 5. // so, specify what requirement sf 

 ANSWERS. 



Educational work is believed to be the best method of inducing consumers to 

 exercise caution in handling milk. The Department of Agriculture has recently 

 issued a publication (Farmers' Bulletin 413) on The Care of Milk and its Use 

 in the Home, which is well adapted to this purpose and which is being widely 

 circulated. (Chief Bureau of Animal Industry.) 



