1909 



MILK COMMISSION". 



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Entire credit is not claimed for the milk alone. To the advance in medical 

 science and sanitary and hygienic education is attributed a share of the credit. As 

 far as the total annual death rate is concerned, the effect is also splendidly notice- 

 able. Before the adoption of the plan, the rate ranged from 27 to 37 per 1000 

 population; whereas since, it has ranged from 17 to 22. In 1908 there were 2807 

 deaths under five years of age, being 19.7 per 1000 in a population of 200,000. 

 Dr. Goler has prepared a chart to show that the death rate goes up or down as 

 the bacteria count in milk goes up or down. 



EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN IN SYRACUSE. 



"With the exception of a recently inaugurated educational campaign,, no spe- 

 cial attention appears to have been paid to the question of infantile mortality in 



