234 THE COMMON SENSE OP THE MILK QUESTION 



visits awakened in the mothers, were unusually 

 favorable to all the children. Since the children fed 

 upon milk from the Straus depots would in any case 

 be under some supervision, a fact noted in the report 

 of the investigation, it is fair to assume that there 

 was a balance of advantage in favor of other kinds of 

 feeding; in other words, that they were tried under 

 particularly favorable conditions. 



The result of the investigation was to show that, 

 in summer, the worst results of all, the highest mor- 

 tality and the greatest amount of illness, occurred 

 with the dirtiest milk, that which was purchased at 

 grocery stores in the neighborhood. The next poor- 

 est results were obtained from condensed milk ; while 

 by far the best results of all were obtained from the 

 milk supplied by the infants' depots. In addition 

 to the statistics summarized in the accompanying 

 table, which speak for themselves, the unanimous 

 opinion was expressed that, "Of methods of feeding 

 now in vogue, that by milk from central distributing 

 stations unquestionably possesses the most advan- 

 tages, in that it secures some constant oversight of the 

 child, and since it furnishes the food in such a form 

 that it leaves the mother least to do, it gives her the 

 smallest opportunity for going wrong." " The es- 

 tablishment of more numerous depots, by the munici- 

 palities, at least during the summer months, was 

 unanimously recommended. 



