Clean Milk 



some of these epidemics have numbered hun- 

 dreds of cases with many deaths, the great 

 importance of this is apparent and the 

 amount of mischief which is possible through 

 the neglect of a single person seems ap- 

 palling. Most of this harm results because 

 the men who are handling the milk are 

 entirely ignorant of the manner in which 

 milk becomes infected, and consequently 

 fail to take the simple precautions which 

 would be quite sufificient to prevent such a 

 calamity. 



In the spring of 1901 it was determined to 

 attempt, through the Department of Health 

 and other agencies, to improve the milk of 

 New York city by preventing the excessive 

 and unnecessary bacterial contamination 

 then occurring. At the same time, through 

 funds supplied by the Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research, physicians were ap- 

 pointed to study carefully the influence upon 

 the health of infants of the filth bacteria and 

 the bacterial products existing in the milk 

 ordinarily consumed in New York city. In 



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