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MILK AND ITS HYGIENIC RELATIONS 



cows, living under good hygienic conditions, and containing, on 

 some days, when delivered, as many as 200,000 bacteria per c.c., 



Table showing the results of feeding during July and August, 1901, in tenement 

 houses, of 112 bottle-fed infants under one year of age, and of 47 bottle-fed 

 infants between one and two years of age with milk from different sources, 

 and the number of bacteria present in the milk. 



had any bacteria or any products due to bacteria that remained 

 deleterious after the milk was heated to near the boiling-point. 



1 This infant died from enteritis and toxemia. 



1 This infant died of pneumonia. There had been no severe intestinal 

 disorder noted. 



1 One of the four had pertussis, the remaining three died from uncompli- 

 cated enteritis. 



