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bacteria was found to be comparatively low, the milk being deliv- 
ered to the consumer mthin a few hours after rnilking. The bacte- 
ria varied from 11,000 to 300,000 per cubic centimeter. 
Goler,® 1903, states that prior to 1900 the average bacterial counts 
of 86 samples of Rochester, N. Y., milk showed 837,000 per cubic 
centimeter, excluding 26 per cent of the samples which contained 
over 5,000,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter. 
Dodd,^ 1904, gives the following; 
District. 
Standard of 
shop. 
Average 
bacteria 
per cubic ' 
centi- 
meter. 
District. 
Standard of 
shop. 
Average 
bacteria 
per cubic 
centi- 
meter. 
City of London 
City of Westminster. .. 
Good class 
.do 
4.800.000 
1.600.000 
' 4,800,000 
1 
Islington 
Finsbury 
Good class 
.. ..do.. 
1,600,000 
2.300.000 
3.200.000 
Holbom 
do 
Do 
Poor class 
Byrnes, 1904, speaking of milk inspection in Pliiladelphia, says: 
“Another branch of this subject is the almost incredible number of 
bacteria found in our milk supply, which vary from 1,600 to 21,000,000 
per cubic centimeter.’^ 
Jordan,^^ 1904, found that the market milk of Chicago contained 
an average of 9,361,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter in April, 
10,071,000 in May, and 18,924,000 in June, 1904. Sixteen per cent 
of the samples examined contained over 20,000,000 bacteria per cubic 
centimeter. 
Bergey,^ 1904, found as a result of the examination of ten samples 
taken at random from a large series of examinations made in July, 
1900, from milk taken at railroad depots in Pliiladelphia, an average 
bacterial content of 4,802,355 per cubic centimeter. The author 
gives a table shovdng the reported average bacterial content per cubic 
centimeter of the milk in other American cities, as follows : 
New York. . 
Boston 
Chicago 
Baltimore. . 
Wilmington 
Bacteria per 
cubic cen- 
timeter. 
4, 000, 000 
2, 300, 000 
2, 350, 000 
4, 000, 000 
7, 000, 000 
« Goler, George W.: The influence of the municipal milk supply upon the deaths 
of young children. N. Y. State Journ. Med., vol. 3, 1903, p. 493. 
& Dodd, F. Lawson: The problem of the milk supply. London, 1904. 77 p. 8°. 
c Byrnes, W. J.: Annual report of the chief inspector of milk for the year 1903. 
Philadelphia Bur. Health, Ann. Rep., 1903, p. 76. 
d Analyses of Chicago Market Milk, a report by the health and sanitation committee 
of the Civic Federation of Chicago, 1904. 
« Bergey, D. H.: Sanitary supeiwision of the collection and marketing of milk. 
Univ. Pa. Med. Bull., vol. 17, 1904, p. 187. 
