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the COW to the consumer. Filthy and impure milk 

 cannot be made safe by any process of pasteurization 

 or sterilization, and the logical thing is to aim at clean, 

 wholesome milk. Without deprecating pasteurization 

 in any way, it can be safely said that the protection 

 of the general milk supply and its improvement can 

 best be secured by proper state and federal legislation 

 looking to the eradication of tuberculosis and other 

 diseases from dairy cattle; the exclusion of all per- 

 sons suffering from infectious or contagious diseases 

 from any direct connection with the production or 

 distribution of milk; the adoption of a uniform score 

 card as a standard for inspectors; the thorough 

 inspection of all the conditions under which milk is 

 produced, shipped, and sold. And this creed can be 

 reduced to two words, "health" and "cleanliness." 



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I do not believe that any city should pasteurize, 

 or compel to be pasteurized, all its milk supply, except 

 under exceptional conditions, as a temporary measure. 

 I can very well imagine a condition arising which 

 would make it absolutely essential that aU milk com- 

 ing into a city should be pasteurized, but that condir 

 tion does not normally exist in this country, where, 

 in spite of everything, our milk supply is equal to 

 that of any other country in the world. In this 1 

 have been compelled to differ from many of my 



