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ployees of the department supervise the production of the milk, 

 and take charge of it immediately after drawing. The various 

 modifications are made, and the product is shipped in the 

 nursing bottles to the various city dispensing stations. There 

 are four of these stations, each in charge of a trained nurse. 

 The instruction in the care of infants is facilitated by pamph- 

 lets printed in English, German, Italian and Yiddish. 



Fig. 17 by Goler (6) shows the beneficial effects resulting 

 from the establishment of milk stations. The work is accom- 

 plished for a season of two months at an expense of about one 

 thousand dollars a year. The system of control of the pro- 

 duction of the milk makes it possible to use raw milk (5, 6). 



The practicability of municipal control of milk stations has 

 been demonstrated, and there is every reason for the adoption 

 of this line of work by other municipalities. 



REFERENCES. 



1. American AssociAnoN of Medical Milk Commissions. Pro- 

 ceedings of the first annual session. Published by the Secretary, Dr. 

 Otto P. Geier, 124 Garfield Place, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1907. 



2. CoiT. A brief history of the development of the pure milk move- 

 ment in the United States. Paper read at the Congres Internationale 

 des Goutles de Lait, Brussels, 1907. 



2 a. CoiT. Clean milk in its economic and medical relations with 

 special reference to certified milk. Kentucky State Medical Journal, 

 May, 1908. 



3. Edsall, Van Slvke and Chapman. Report of the committee on 

 chemical standards. Pediatrics, Vol. XX, 1908, No. 7, p. 455. 



4. GiijR. Our experience with certified milk in Cincinnati. Kentucky 

 Med. Jour., Vol. VI, 1908, p. 276. 



5. GoLER. But a thousand a year. Charities, August 5, 1905. 



6. GoLER. Scheme for the sanitary control of the municipal milk 

 supply. Paper read at the Congres Internalionale des Gouttes de Lait, 

 Paris, 1905. 



7. Kerr. Certified milk and infants' milk depots. Bui. No. 41, 

 Hyg. Lab., U. S. Pub. Health and Mar. Hasp. Serv., Washington, D. C, 

 1908, p. 565. 



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