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be sold from dip-tanks, but a regulation recently promul- 

 gated by the Boston Board of Health to this effect was 

 declared unconstitutional. A legislative enactment de- 

 signed to give the Board of Health authority to forbid dip- 

 tanks was vetoed by the Governor. The dip-tank will dis- 

 appear spontaneously as soon as the people are. educated 

 to demand their milk in clean original packages. 



The dangers in the association between the milk industry 

 and home life 



Most diseases of man are contracted from man. Human 

 contact with milk is therefore one of the main things to be 

 avoided. A few of the harmful bacteria in milk come from 

 the cow, such as the bovine tubercle bacillus and virulent 

 streptococci. Human infections are, all told, most frequent 

 and most serious. They are mainly typhoid fever, scarlet 

 fever, diphtheria, and sore throat. A milk business which is 

 run as a home industry is like living upon a volcano. Sooner 

 or later disease will invade the home, and then there is 

 grave danger that it will be communicated to the milk. 

 The danger is increased if children wash the bottles, milk 

 the cows, or in other ways handle the milk. 



A close connection between the home life and the milk 

 industry is often seen in the corner grocery store. I have 

 seen this condition: a small grocery store connected directly 

 with the bedroom in which lay a child sick with typhoid 

 fever. There was no law to compel the child to be sent to a 

 hospital, and there was no law to prevent the sale of milk 

 from that grocery store during the time of danger. The 

 father of the family was a street-car conductor and absent 

 all day. The mother tended the store and cared for her 

 maternal duties as best she could. The same hands that 

 nursed the child and disposed of the infected discharges 

 also purveyed the milk. In this case the milk was not 

 dipped out of the tank, but the bottles were handled by 

 the neck, and in some instances bottles were opened in 



