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cable diseases of human beings through milk depends primarily on 
clean intelligent dairying, and for this there is no substitute. 
COST OF MILK INSPECTION. 
It is not difficult to state exactly the amount appropriated specific- 
ally for the milk-inspection service, but it is impossible to do more 
than to approximate its actual cost. Some of the time of the health 
officer and of certain other officers and employees in the employ of 
the health department is given up in part to the service named, and a 
part of the contingent expenses of the service are so' closely bound up 
with the general contingent expenses that accurate separation is im- 
possible. The following statement shows, however, approximately 
the present cost of the service per annum : 
Annual cost of milk-inspection service. 
SPECIFIC APPROPRIATIONS. 
1 inspector, dairy farms $1, 200 
5 inspectors, dairy farms, at $1,000 5, 000 
1 inspector, dairies 900 
1 inspector, collecting samples : 900 
1 inspector, assisting eliemist 900 
Traveling expenses! 2, 000 
GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS. 
[Pro rata chargeable to milk-inspection service.] ^ 
20 per cent salary of health officer $700 
50 per cent salary of chief clerk 1, 100 
10 per cent salary of chief inspector 180 
25 per cent salary of chemist 450 
5 per cent salary of inspector in charge of contagious-disease service 120 
20 per cent salary of clerical force of health department 1, 760 
2 per cent general contingent allotment to health department 70 
20 per cent of allotment for postage 124 
40 per cent contingent fund for chemical laboratory 400 
Total 15,804 
Statements showing the amount specifically appropriated for the 
milk-inspection service, and the work accomplished, are appended.® 
Time and space will not permit a discussion of the claim made 
by some that the efforts of the Government to bring about an improve- 
ment in the milk supply have resulted in an increase in the cost of 
milk to the consumer. The increase in the price of milk is in keeping 
with the increase in the price of almost everything else and is terri- 
torially too widely spread to have been brought about simply by the 
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