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A number of copies of Special Order of October 14, 1910, and of extract from 

 Circular 114, Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, are 

 inclosed for your information." 



Very respectfully, U. S. GRANT, 3d, 



First Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, Superintendent. 



WAR DEPARTMENT, 

 Washington, December 13, 1910. 



SIR: Referring to previous correspondence on the subject, I have the honor 

 to quote for your information the following order, issued December 12, 1910, by 

 the department concerning the sale of milk in the buildings under its jurisdic- 

 tion in this city : 



" It is directed by the Secretary of War that on and after January 2, 1911, 

 no dealer will be permitted to sell milk to employees of the War Department in 

 the State, War, and Navy Department Building, and in the outside buildings 

 under the jurisdiction of this department, unless he shall show as his authority 

 therefor a ' milk permit ' issued by the superintendent of the State, War, and 

 Navy Department Building, or the superintendent of the outside buildings, 

 Capt M. R. Thorp." 



This action has been taken in the interests of public health, and milk per- 

 mits will be issued only by the officials named to such dealers as have fully 

 complied with the requirements of the Department of Agriculture governing 

 sanitary milk." 



Very respectfully, ROBERT SHAW OLIVER, 



Assistant Secretary of War. 

 Mr. J. Louis WILLIGE, 



Chairman Special Committee, 



Washington Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D. C. 



NAVY DEPARTMENT, 

 Washington, November 18, 1910. 



SIR: Referring to your letter No. 121463, of November 8, 1910, recommend- 

 ing the issuance of an order prohibiting the sale of milk within any building' 

 occupied by the Navy Department which is not equal to the classification as 

 defined in Bureau of Animal Industry Circular No. 114, a transcript of which is 

 printed on the back of special order issued by the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 copy of which was inclosed with your letter, the department incloses herewith 

 a list of milk dealers furnishing milk to the personnel of the bureaus and offices 

 of the Navy Department. The department desires that you communicate with 

 these dealers and state that it is the department's intention to publish for the 

 information of employees a list of dealers in milk whose milk comes up to the 

 required test, and that if they so desire, the department will test their milk 

 unless it has already been tested by competent authority. 

 Very respectfully, 



BEEKMAN WINTHROP, 

 Acting Secretary of the Navy. 

 The SURGEON GENERAL, UNITED STATES NAVY, 



Navy Department. 



LIST OF MILK' DEALERS FURNISHING MILK TO THE PERSONNEL OF THE BUREAUS AND 

 OFFICES OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. 



Baltimore & Washington White Cross Milk Co. (Inc.), Ninth and N Streets 

 NW., Washington. 



H. L. Alden, 211 Tenth Street SW., Washington. D. C. 



Geo. M. Oyster, 1116 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, D. C. 



Walker-Gordon Laboratory of Washington, D. C., 1020 Connecticut Avenue 

 NW., Washington. D. C. 



Dulin's Dairy, 1021 Twentieth Street NW., Washington, D. C. 



George A. Wise & Bro., 3310 R Street NW., Washington, D. 0. 



