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victims. " Pus as a Beverage " is not a very attrac- 

 tive title, but of the terrible truthfulness of the 

 phrase there can be no doubt. 



Wherever there are tuberculous cows such con- 

 ditions must prevail to a greater or lesser degree. 

 From a score of American cities I could quote in- 

 stances of conditions quite as bad as those set forth 

 in the Woking report. I content myself with a 

 single illustration of the use of pus as a beverage, 

 and, it is safe to infer, as a food for little children: — 



"In the Department of Health in Buffalo . . . 

 we have a bacteriological examination of three hun- 

 dred samples of milk every month. On the 19th 

 of October (1906) the bacteriological examination 

 showed streptococci and pus in a sample of milk 

 sent in from the country. I sent a man out there 

 the next day and he reported that one of the cows 

 had a dilation of the udder and that there was 

 pus in the milk. ... On November 13, another 

 sample very much the same was reported to me as 

 containing streptococci and pus. I sent an inspector 

 in whom I had the greatest confidence to the farm 

 and he came back with this report: That he found 

 one cow with one of the teats giving a milk which 

 was almost transparent, like water; the other three 

 a milk which to the ocular inspection and to taste 

 looked and seemed perfect. He, however, brought 

 that milk in to be examined. The cow's udder was 



