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MILK COMMISSION. 



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fact to Mr. Straus and he gave the moral a wide and unselfish application. If 

 he, a man of means, was thus exposing his family to the dangers of disease from 

 contaminated milk, what of the thousands of poor children of the great city whose 

 lives were daily menaced in his way ? His interest in the milk supply was aroused. 

 It appealed to his philanthropic instincts and the work has grown so that now, in 

 addition to his main laboratory, he has six depots distributing last year 4,167,675 

 bottles and 1,411,017 glasses of pasteurized milk. 



PERFECT PASTEURIZATION. 



In fact in visiting the Straus Laboratories in New York your Commission 



Nathan Straus milk depot, dispensing modified and pasteurized milk in nursing bottles. 



doubtless visited what might be described as the chief centre of pasteurization in- 

 fluence on the continent. Although Mr. Straus Himself was out of the city, every 

 courtesy was afforded by Dr. Arthur Randolph Green, Medical Director, and Mr. 

 William, Wirt Mills. It was quite evident that the system of pasteurization as 

 carried on at this laboratory was as nearly perfect as it is possible for science and 

 philanthropy to achieve. It was quite evident also that pasteurization meant 

 something different when it bore the name of Straus than when it adorned the 

 label of the average milkman as an advertising .catchword. The rooms' were large 

 and light and spotlessly clean and the pasteurization plant of the most up-to-date 

 standard, but aside from this there were two outstanding features which should 

 be carefully noted. In the first place the milk used is clean milk, certified milk 

 in fact, purchased at eight cents a quart on the farm. This precaution is taken 



