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Goler. While satisfied with the return made for a 

 ridiculously small sum of money invested, a dividend 

 in human lives rarely equalled, he would not, could 

 not, beUeve that the limit had been reached. An idea 

 obsessed the mind of this earnest and far-seeing offi- 

 cial: "Pasteurization is good for dirty milk — dead 

 disease germs are less harmful than living ones; but 

 why have filth in milk at all — why not aim at clean 

 milk which needs no pasteurization?" That simple 

 idea of cleanliness has made Rochester famous wher- 

 ever men and women are seriously trying to grapple 

 with the problem of keeping the babies alive. It is 

 the essence of the political economy of saving babies' 

 lives. 



So, in 1900, instead of pasteurized milk for the in- 

 fants, Dr. Goler tried clean raw milk. A contract was 

 made with a farmer for all his milk at so much per 

 quart, upon condition that he would observe all the 

 hygienic directions of Dr. Goler and his assistants, 

 which were purposely made as simple as possible, de- 

 manding a minimum of outlay. A portable labora- 

 tory, consisting of an old, discarded election booth, 

 was set up on the selected farm. Outside the house, 

 under canvas, a sink and running water were set up 

 for washing the bottles. Then there was a tent for 

 sterilizing purposes, with sterilizers each containing 

 two gross of nursing bottles — for here, instead of 

 sterilizing the milk, they sterilize the bottles and cans. 



