208 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



Certified milk, as above, is 100 per cent dearer. (Health officer San Fran- 

 cisco, Cal.) 



Where milk is being sold at a reasonable price it would undoubtedly raise 

 the price of milk from 10 to 20 per cent (Health officer St. Joseph, Mo.) 



It may increase the price. At present the producer does not get enough 

 profit; the city dealer in most cities does. (Health officer Wheeling, W. Va.) 



To increase its price to 9 or 10 cents, unless there should be municipal con- 

 trol of the production. (Dr. Samuel McC. Hamill, Philadelphia, Pa.) 



Fifty per cent advance above present prices. (Health officer Scranton, Pa.) 



QUESTION 6. Will the insistence upon these requirements result in a temporary 

 or permanent milk famine f 



ANSWERS. 



These requirements, if gradually introduced, will not result in a milk famine. 

 If suddenly and injudiciously enforced, however, they would probably cause 

 a temporary shortage in the milk supply. (Chief Bureau of Animal Industry.) 



I do not know. (Surgeon General U. S. Army.) 



No means for determining this question. (Surgeon General U. S. Navy.) 



In my opinion, it will not. (Surgeon General Public Health and Marine- 

 Hospital Service.) 



It would be impossible to carry out the tuberculin test properly on all farms 

 in a less period than one year. The insistence on ice would require a winter 

 to intervene. (Dr. William H. Park, New York, N. Y.) 



No; they are judiciously applied. (Dr. Henry L. Coit, Newark, N. J.) 



All reforms of this sort should be introduced gradually, in which case there 

 would be no milk famine. (Dr. R. G. Freeman, New York, N. Y.) 



No. Time should be allowed for farmers to adjust themselves to new con- 

 ditions. (Dr. M. P. Ravenel, Madison, Wis.) 



It has not elsewhere. (Dr. C. E. A. Winslow, New York, N. Y.) 



If the test be applied within a day or a week, and were so applied, a milk 

 famine would undoubtedly result. If the application of the tests in the first 

 instance were spread over a reasonable length of time, no famine would 

 result. Under ordinary condi/ions, the routine applications of the test would 

 not diminish the milk supply. (Health officer District of Columbia.) 



No. (Health officer Ann Arbor, Mich.) 



In Atlanta we can not see how this will affect the supply, as we are now 

 insisting upon these requirements. (Health officer Atlanta, Ga.) 



Probably would. (Health officer Baltimore, Md.) 



No. Not permanently ; however, it might have this influence temporarily. 

 (Health officer Birmingham, Ala.) 



Permanent. (Health officer Bismarck, N. Dak.) 



Not if carried out within a reasonable period, say two years. (Health officer 

 Cleveland Ohio.) 



Neither, if brought about gradually. (Health officer Columbus, Ohio.) 



Not necessarily. (Health officer Detroit, Mich.) 



If they result in milk famine at all, it will be of the most transitory char- 

 acter. (State board of health, Florida.) 



Not if enforced slowly and with judgment. (Health officer Jacksonville, Fla.) 



No. (Health officer Kansas City, Mo.) 



Should be gradually introduced. (Health officer Lynchburg, Va.) 



Temporary, if enforced at once. (Health officer Montclair, N. J.) 



In our experience, none. But the middleman tried to increase the price 

 to consumer. (Health officer Portland, Oreg.) 



No. (Health officer Providence, R. I.) 



Not if wisely carried out. The work should be progressive; not everything 

 perfect at once. (Health officer Richmond, Va.) 



No; the threat has been made to make a milk famine every time we have 

 enforced a new rule, but none has occurred. (Health officer Rochester, N. Y.) 



Neither one ; if the people are all treated alike. This, of course, would 

 include the opportunity of selling liquid manure to the condensers. (Health 

 officer Seattle, Wash.) 



No. Will increase the use of milk and so increase the demand. (Health 

 officer Syracuse, N. Y.) 



Yes; if immediate. But all changes or reforms in this respect should be 

 accompanied with common sense and judgment. (Health officer Topeka, Kans.) 



