Thf Diitij of the Consumer 



vision limiting tlie use of milk bottles, could 

 impress people with the necessity for reserv- 

 ing this article for its purpose. 



The fact that epidemics of contagious 

 diseases have been traced to milk bottles 

 which came from houses where the disease 

 existed indicates a plain duty of the con- 

 sumer. In case of any communicable disease 

 in the family no milk bottle should leave the 

 premises unless it has been boiled for ten 

 minutes. 



The cleaning of milk bottles before they 

 are returned to the dealer is incumbent upon 

 every person who uses bottled milk. The 

 simplest rule of good housekeeping calls for 

 this, and proper methods in the kitchen 

 would accomplish it as a matter of course. 

 It is one of the small things whose moral 

 effect may be considerable. The difference 

 between returning to the milkman a clean 

 bottle and an unclean or filthy one is not 

 lost upon him, or upon the other individu- 

 als who handle it in the course of its journey 

 to and from the consumer. 



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