CHAPTER III. 



THE NEED OF MUNICIPAL MILK IN- 

 SPECTION. 



Milk and meat as foods have received much 

 more consideration at the hands of investi- 

 gators as food products, because they are used 

 as food by many more people than any of the 

 other food products, and because milk is pri- 

 marily a food for the young. Cow's milk is 

 especially much used in the cities as food for 

 the babies, where many of them are bottle 

 fed. It seems to me that the procurement of 

 a wholesome and pure milk for the people, 

 and one that is cheap and nutritious, for the 

 people of our country, and especially for the 

 babies, would be a work in which any one 

 should feel proud to be engaged and should 

 receive more consideration at the hands of 

 veterinarians than it does. Too many of us 

 veterinarians do not pay any attention to mat- 

 ters of this kind simply because our muni- 

 cipalities do not make provision for such in- 

 spection. Milk not only carries disease to the 

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