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Several English municipalities have established 

 depots for the supply of infants' milk. The move- 

 ment began with the city of St. Helens, Lancashire, 

 which, under the able leadership of the Medical Officer 

 of Health, Dr. F. Drew Harris, adopted a plan some- 

 what similar to the Gouttes de Lait of Paris, in the 

 summer of 1899.*' I was residing at the time in Gla- 

 morganshire, and I remember with what interest we 

 followed the new experiment. Every indication of a 

 lowering of the infantile death-rate was regarded as 

 a sure sign of the early triumph over needless infant 

 mortality, and I recall with what enthusiasm I lec- 

 tured upon the new movement and secured the adop- 

 tion of resolutions in its favor. Since that time the 

 idea of providing a special milk supply for infants 

 as a part of the business of the municipality has made 

 rapid progress. After two years' successful experience 

 at St. Helens had demonstrated that infants' milk 

 depots were not to be pooh-poohed and scorned, but 

 must be seriously regarded, the cities of Liverpool, 

 Ashton-under-Lyne, and Dunkinfield established de- 

 pots. That was in 1901. The year following Bat- 

 tersea opened a depot and was followed in 1903 by 

 Leith and Bradford and in 1904 by Burnley, Glasgow, 

 and Dundee. This is not a complete list of the mu- 

 nicipal infants' milk depots in Great Britain, but it 

 sufficiently indicates the great progress of the idea 



