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I believe in the establishment of infants' milk depots 

 as one of the most important means of lessening infant 

 mortality. I imagine that there are very few cities 

 having a population of more than twenty-five thousand 

 in which there is not a need for such depots. 



I am clearly of the opinion, moreover, that these 

 should be in all cases established and maintained 

 by municipal authorities rather than by private phi- 

 lanthropy, for reasons already stated in another 

 chapter. Under present conditions, and probably for 

 many years to come, pasteurization of the milk sup- 

 plied at these infants' milk depots will be necessary 

 in most cases. There are doubtless many cities which 

 will need to adopt pasteurization only temporarily, 

 if at all. Where there is a comparatively small city, 

 having a high standard of citizenship and better 

 housing conditions than those which exist in the 

 larger cities, and where the milk supply is produced 

 within a short distance from the city limits, making 

 its control relatively easy, there ought to be no 

 difiiculty about getting a milk supply of a high aver- 

 age standard of excellence, and a special supply for 

 the infants' milk depots so pure as to need no pas- 

 teurization. 



I choose for illustration a typical Southern city, 

 the city of Savannah, Ga. How far the conditions 

 which Professor Doane described as existing there 

 three or four years ago * still exist I am unable to 



