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less than 25,000 inspections a year, they must leave 

 some places iminspected and they have little oppor- 

 tunity for reinspections. When one thinks of it, 

 there is something radically wrong in a system which 

 compels the city of New York to send its inspectors to 

 Vermont and Ohio to make sure that the milk is pro- 

 duced under decent conditions. Testing the herds 

 for tuberculosis is a state function and sanitary inspec- 

 tion ought to be. As the states become more and 

 more conscious of their duty in the matter, and develop 

 their systems of inspection, the cities will be relieved 

 of a great deal of needless expense. How the neglect 

 of the states burdens the great cities we see in the case 

 of the part of its milk supply which New York draws 

 from Pennsylvania. As the state improves its meth- 

 ods of inspection it becomes less important for New 

 York inspectors to devote their time to that state. 

 A similar improvement in the other states would make 

 it possible for New York to use most of the force at 

 present employed in the country division upon the 

 work of city inspection. In other words, New York 

 City has to pay for the negligence of New York State 

 and other states. 



To sum up the whole matter: If the testing of herds 

 so as to secure a milk supply drawn from perfectly 

 healthy cattle is the first article in the creed of the 

 milk reformer, the second is efficient inspection to in- 

 sure perfect sanitary conditions at every point, from 



