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QUESTION 2. Is the compulsory insistence on the tuberculin test, in your judg- 

 ment, practicable and advisable t 



ANSWERS. 



Yes. (Health officer Ann Arbor, Mich.) 



We are now endeavoring to determine this. (Health officer Atlanta, Ga.) 



It is desirable, but at present impracticable. (Health officer Baltimore, Md.) 



Yes. (Health officer Birmingham, Ala.) 



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



Yes. (Health officer Burlington, Vt.) 



Not under present conditions. (Health officer Cleveland, Ohio.) 



Advisable; practicable with public cooperation in sustaining its share of loss 

 r'rom reacting animals. (Health officer Columbus, Ohio.) 



Yes. (Health officer Detroit, Mich.) 



Yes. (State board of health, Florida.) 



I believe it is practicable and advisable. (Health officer Jacksonville, Fla.) 



Yes. (Health officer Kansas City, Mo.) 



Not at first; advice, etc., should precede for a number of years. (Health 

 officer Lynchburg, Va.) 



For small communities, yes; for large cities pasteurization will doubtless 

 be necessary for a time, as the immediate insistence of the test would cause 

 a milk famine. Conditions vary in each community. (Health officer Mont- 

 clair, N. J.) 



Yes; we have found it so. (Health officer Portland, Oreg.) 



Yes ; but we can not get country members of legislature to pass such a law. 

 (Health officer Providence, R. I.) 



If, after tuberculin testing, every reacting cow is to be destroyed, there 

 are serious difficulties. To " insist " on this either means the appropriation 

 of a large sum for (1) inspectors and (2) remuneration of producers, or an 

 inevitable great rise in price of milk. (Health officer Richmond, Va.) 



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



Yes. (Health officer Seattle, Wash.) 



Yes; if under competent supervision and paid for by Government. (Health 

 officer Topeka, Kans.) 



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



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



Advisable, but practicable only under certain conditions. (Health officer 

 Los Angeles, Cal.) 



No. (Health officer San Francisco, Cal.) 



Yes. (Health officer St. Joseph. Mo.) 



Yes. (Health officer Wheeling, W. Va.) 



No. (Health officer Scranton, Pa.) 



QUESTION 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? 



ANSWERS. 



Yes. (Health officer Ann Arbor, Mich.) 



We find it so in a place like Atlanta. (Health officer Atlanta, Ga.) 



It is desirable, but not yet practicable, first, because of the railroads; second, 

 because few farmers have ice. (Health officer Baltimore, Md. ) 



It is desirable, but not always practicable in this climate, owing to the 

 increased expense necessary to maintain this low temperature. (Health officer 

 Birmingham, Ala.) 



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



Yes. (Health officer Burlington, Vt.) 



Very desirable, but not practicable. (Health officer Cleveland, Ohio.) 



The requirement is desirable certainly; 50 is too low for market milk under 

 ordinary conditions, as experienced in Columbus. We have enforced a 65 rule 

 for two years; 98 per cent of retail milk kept at 65. Sixty per cent of whole- 

 sale milk kept at 65. Great improvement during last summer. (Health officer 

 Columbus, Ohio.) 



Yes. (Health officer Detroit, Mich.) 



Yes. (State board of health, Florida.) 



