243 
I victims in June, July, and August, 1906, instead of 4,426. Thus the 
i apparent saving of lives in three months was 5,317, or 54.57 per cent, 
i It must not be overlooked that in Xew York City, coincidently 
with the introduction of pasteurized milk, other agencies became 
! operative, as for example general milk inspection by the local health 
, authorities, the use of diphtheria antitoxin, the campaign of fresh 
air for children, improved tenement houses, cleaner streets, more 
parks and playgrounds, recreation piers, and other factors accom- 
panying the enlightenment in hygiene so widely spread in recent 
years, not only in Xew York City, but throughout the whole country. 
STATISTICS OF RANDALL’S ISLAND. 
Ylien the infants in the care of the city of Xew York were fed on 
milk from a carefully selected herd pastured on the island, the death 
i| rate was as follows : 
Children 
treated. 
1 Xuinber 
1 of 
; deaths. 
Percent- 
age. 
1895 
1,216 
511 
42.02 
1896 i 
1,212 
474 1 
39. 11 
1897 
1,181 i 
524 
44. 36 
Total 
3,609 
1,509 
41.81 
j A pasteurizing plant was installed in the early part of 1^98. Xo 
i other change in diet or hygiene was made. 
Children 
1 treated. 
Number 
of 
deaths. 
Percent- 
age. 
1898 
1,284 
255 
19.80 
1899 
1, 097 
269 
24. 52 
1900 
j 1, 084 
300 
27. 68 
1901 ^ 
1,028 
186 
18. 09 
1902 
820 
181 
22. 07 
1903 
542 
101 
18. 63 
1904 
345 
57 
16. 52 
Total 
6,200 
1,349 
21.75 
Had the ratio of deaths for the three years, 1895, 1896, and 1897, 
been maintained in the seven years from 1898 to 1904, the total infant 
mortality would have been 2,592, instead of 1,349, a difference of 1,243. 
STATISTICS OF MILK CHARITIES ABROAD. 
Writing of infantile mortality and the supply of humanized steril- 
ized milk, Hope states that at the Liverpool infant milk depots for 
three years ending with the year 1903, among 4,453 infants provided 
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