494 THE CONTROL OF THE MILK SUPPLY 



which we have already spoken ; the drivers, sellers, and carriers 

 with a sort of livery composed of a cap and a blouse with dis- 

 tinctive facings. These last receive, in addition to a fixed salary, 

 a percentage on the profits of the sale after deducting a small sum 

 for the payment of the young boys of from 12 to 16 who accompany 

 the vans in the morning to help in the distribution of the milk. 

 All the employes are allowed to drink as much milk as they like 

 in the works. 



A most rigorous discipline is exercised on the staff. Any 

 infraction of the rules, however slight, is severely punished ; on the 

 other hand, bonuses are offered from time to time to those employes 

 signalised by their strict observance of rules and their application 

 to work. 



The regulations relating to the staff include one of great 

 interest from the point of view of the transmission of infectious 

 ■disease by milk. It sets forth the line of conduct to be followed 

 in the case of any illness capable of infecting the milk and thus 

 being transmitted to the consumer, appearing in the family of an 

 employe or in the house in which he lives. In the beginning of 

 this article we pointed out with what care the Company choses the 

 ■cows, with what constant attention it watches their health, and 

 that of their proprietors, with what rigour they exclude from the 

 herd any animal even suspected of illness. It extends the same 

 prophylactic regulations to the staff. Its motto : Pure milk front 

 healthy cows might be amplified and completed thus : Pure milk 

 J)rovided by healthy cows and treated by a healthy staff of workers. 

 The employe who, according to the rules, goes of his own accord 

 and informs the Company and its medical officers of a case of 

 illness in his family or neighbourhood, is knocked off work until 

 all danger is over, but the whole time of this enforced stoppage of 

 work he receives the whole of his salary. It is therefore to his 

 interest to act honestly, all the more that by omitting to make the 

 notification he runs the risk of instant dismissal if the fact becomes 

 known. 



Thanks to this system of notification the " Kjobenhavns 

 Mailkeforsyning " can deliver the milk guaranteed as it received 

 it, that is to say, absolutely pure and healthy. These are two 

 essential qualities of milk destined for consumption, and it is 

 towards procuring them that all the efforts of the enterprise are 

 directed.! 



^ A somewhat similar Company to the above is Det Danske Mcelke-Compagni 

 which was founded about six years ago with the object of exploiting Casse's 



