Medical Milk Commissions. This includes local branches 

 i'ormed in most of the large cities of the U. S. A. and some 

 in Canada. Uniform st-andards have been adopted and the 

 modus operandi has been better understood by the pro- 

 ducer and better appreciated by the consumer. With the 

 growth of the medical oommiission idea there follows a bet- 

 ter understanding and a deeper interest in the clean milk 

 movement. 



The first Medical Milk Commission had its inception 

 ui the efforts of the profession of Newark, N.J., in 1892, to 

 solve tJie problem of feeding infants, deprived of then* nat-' 

 ural source of supply. It was coincident with the early 

 work done in this countrj^ and Europe on the nutrition of 

 infants and the use of the so-called modified milk. The 

 need of clean milk for this purpose, and "with it the gen- 

 eral need of milk pm-e and safe for feeding the adults, was 

 sufficiently appealing and important to spread interest iii 

 this work. 



I propose to give you a glimpse of the work that has 

 been don© in tliese various centres, and with thiS' some of 

 the reasons for their existence. I want to show you the 

 necessity for a^ most rigid inspection ; and must even admit 

 that wdth all of the very best there will be considered at 

 times' the possibility of error and the infringement of 

 I'ules, while certain steps in the production are still in the 

 hands of mortal man. Certified milk can never be an abso- 

 lutely guaranteed product when it reaohce the consumer. 

 It is impossible to caiTV out these tests befoTC the milk is 

 used, from their \'ei-y nature. But this traction of error has 

 been so reducetl that the system now in operation has been 

 accepted in many of the largest centres of population ui 

 the U. S. A. 



The Medical Milk Commission unit in each locality is 

 willing to carry out their part of this necorssary inspection, 

 and this entirely without monetary reward. It is distinctly 

 accepted that medical men acting on these commissions 

 shall not charge or accept any fee from any one interested 



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