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the courage to express it. How many of the cases 

 of fatalities from eating "poisoned candy" of which 

 one reads are in reality due to poisonous milk, will 

 never be known.* And then, too, as Dr. F. Lawson 

 Dodd observes, "the evil is by no means aU recorded 

 in the deaths." " Among those who barely manage 

 to survive the milk-borne diseases of infancy and 

 childhood, there are probably many physically in- 

 competent to meet the issues of the great hfe struggle, 

 — men and women of enfeebled health and dwarfed 

 physique, whose miserable state is due to the same 

 subtle and unseen dangers which lurk in the infant's 

 bottle and the milk can. 



* As an instance of this I note the case of the alleged poison- 

 ing by means of candy of the children of three families in 

 Brooklyn, N.Y., in July, 1906, which was due, not to poisonous 

 candy, but to poisonous and infected mUk, according to the in- 

 vestigation made by Dr. Lederle. See The Evening Mail, New 

 York, August, 1906. 



