148 THE COMMON SENSE OF THE MILK QUESTION 



the largest dairy companies in the world, a man was 

 found working, notwithstanding that he was visibly 

 suffering from scarlet fever, the characteristic "rash" 

 being evident. Milk was also being received by the 

 same company from two farms in which there were 

 cases of scarlet fever. Inter alia, in view of the fact 

 that this great company has been successful largely 

 on account of the reputation for cleanliness and care 

 established by its founder more than half a century 

 ago, and so many are thereby lulled into an altogether 

 unwarranted feeling of safety, it may be well to men- 

 tion the fact that, on April 2, 1907, or only two 

 months after the Chicago epidemic, which ought to 

 have been a solemn warning to the company, milk 

 was left at my own house by the agents of this great 

 concern in which there were thousands of visible 

 creatures, many of them as large as millet seeds, and 

 not unlike them in appearance. My wife was pre- 

 paring to pasteurize the milk for our baby, when, in 

 the course of gently rocking the bottle to properly 

 mix the contents, she observed the unusual con- 

 ditions. 



Without opening the bottle, we called for the agent 

 of the company and showed him the milk. At first 

 he tried to persuade us that what we saw were "little 

 bits of slag, blown in the glass," whereupon I opened 

 the bottle in his presence and, with a probe, moved 

 many of the creatures, taking one of them out. 



