234 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



Yes. (Health officer San Francisco, Gal.) 



Questionable. (Health officer St. Joseph, Mo.) 



It might be practicable. It is not necessary for the production of clean 

 milk. A floor that can be kept clean is the essential. (Health officer Wheel- 

 ing, W. Va.) 



Questionable. (Health officer Scranton, Pa.) 



QUESTION 11. Does such requirement tend to cause rheumatism in the animal t 



ANSWERS. 



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



Uncertain. (Health officer Atlanta, Ga.) 



No. (Health officer Birmingham, Ala.) 



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



Not if properly bedded. (Health officer Burlington, Vt.) 



No. (Health officer Cleveland, Ohio.) 



Yes; unless concrete overlies cinders (8 inches thick) and animals are well 

 bedded. (Health officer Columbus, Ohio.) 



Possibly. (Health officer Detroit, Mich.) 



Not if permitted to graze upon pasture. If stabled it produces larninitis, not 

 rheumatism. (Health officer Kansas City, Mo.) 



Not that we have noticed. (Health officer Los Angeles, Cal.) 



No. (Health officer Lynchburg, Va.) 



I have no experience or knowledge to that effect. (Health officer Mont- 

 clair, N. J.) 



No. (Health officer Portland, Oreg.) 



Yes, unless bedding used. (Health officer Providence, R. I.) 



Not if proper bedding is used under cows. We have concrete floors in nearly 

 every cow barn around Richmond, and have had no complaint whatever of 

 injury to the cow. (Health officer Richmond, Va.) 



Not if the floors are properly insulated. (Health officer Rochester, N. Y.) 



No. We have as healthy stock as there is in the world, and many of our 

 stables have concrete floors. (Health officer Seattle, Wash.) 



Not if properly cared for. (Health officer Syracuse, N. Y.) 



I believe so. (Health officer Topeka, Kans.) 



No. (Dr. V. C. Vaughan, Ann Arbor, Mich.) 



Not to my knowledge. (Health officer San Francisco, Cal.) 



Questionable. (Health officer St. Joseph, Mo.) 



I do not know. Many farmers think so. (Health officer, Wheeling, W. Va.) 



It may. (Health officer Scranton, Pa.) 



QUESTION 12. What other requirements in addition to the foregoing would you 

 suggest with a view to improving condition of milk? 



ANSWERS. 



Sanitary inspection of all farms, milk wagons, and dairies selling milk 

 products in the District. ( Surgeon General U. S. Navy. ) 



All milk should be tuberculin tested or else pasteurized. All milk should 

 be properly cooled and kept cool. Arrangements should be made for the. 

 instruction of mothers in caring for their infants, and this can in no other way 

 be done so well as in connection with the free distribution of proper milk 

 to persons unable to pay for it, and the distribution of milk at reduced prices 

 to persons who are unable to pay the ordinary market price for a milk of 

 proper quality. t There are, of course, many other suggestions that might be 

 made with respect to the improvement of the health of the District, but 

 these seem to be those most directly connected with the subject now under con- 

 sideration. (Health officer District of Columbia.) 



Closer supervision at dairies, care of cattle and utensils, sterilization of 

 bottles, etc. (Health officer Ann Arbor, Mich.) 



Clean milk from healthy cows and the milk quickly and thoroughly cooled 

 is all that is needed. Expensive manipulation is bad. (Health officer At- 

 lanta, Ga.) 



A further supervision and strict enforcement of the requirements as to the 

 sanitary condition at the producers. (Health officer Baltimore, Md.) 



Clean methods, prompt and thorough cooling, quick delivery. All milk 

 containers to be thoroughly sterilized. (Health officer Birmingham, Ala.) 



