100 REPORT OF THE No. 55 



HOW ROCHESTER SAVES INFANTS' LIVES. 



In visiting Rochester, Syracuse and New York, your Commission made spe- 

 cial enquiries as to the efforts to reduce infantile mortality. 



Rochester stands out prominently on the pages of milk literature as being the 

 home of Dr. George W. Goler, one of the leading students of the question on the 

 continent and one of the most successful health officers in the protection of the 

 lives of infants. Since the Goler system of infants' milk depots was established, 

 the number of deaths of children under five years of age during the hot months 



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Interior Rochester's portable milk house at farm, showing trained nurse preparing pure 



modified milk for infants. 



of July and August has been practically cut in half. And that is why Dr. Goler 

 has made his city famous among students of the milk question. 



Your Commission found Dr. Goler a man of much zeal and energy, courteous 

 both in explaining his plan and in showing it in operation. They learned that 

 about twelve years ago Dr. Goler had been strongly impressed by the fact that 

 more children under five years of age die during the months of July and August 

 than in any other two months in the year, and that a large number of these die 

 of intestinal troubles. Following .up these observations, he concluded that bad 

 milk was responsible for many of these deaths. Appalled by the economic waste 

 as well as the sadness of this pitiful slaughter, he hit upon the idea of a special 

 supply to meet the special conditions which prevailed during these few months. 



