GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 3 



There are many other reasons why we have a milk ques- 

 tion. These will be discussed anon. We shall find that all 

 this fuss about milk is not a " tempest in a tea-pot." We are 



COMPARISON OP EXPENDITURES FOR IMPORTANT MUNI- 

 CIPAL ACTIVITIES IN FOUR LEADING AMERICAN 

 CITIES 



(Tabulated for the year 1908 from U. S. Census Bureau, by the 

 Chicago Commission of Health) 



A SORRY CONTRAST. UNTIL COMMUNITIES ARE WILL- 

 ING TO SPEND MORE FOR HEALTH WE WILL HAVE A 

 MILK QUESTION AND OTHER SANITARY PROBLEMS 



dealing with an essential article of food: one that is prob- 

 ably accountable for more sickness and more deaths than 

 all other foods put together. The milk question is then a 

 real problem of first magnitude worthy of our careful 

 thought and attention. 



