630 
Formula 'No. 2 (Dr. Rowland G. Freeman). 
Milk ounces 
Limewater do 
Milk sugar do 
Filtered water do 
Formula No. 3 (Dr. A. Jacohi). 
Milk ounces__ 
Barley water do 
Cane sugar do 
Table salt grains__ 
Formula No. If (Dr. Roioland G. Freeman). 
Cream (16 per cent) ounces — 
Milk- do 
Milk sugar do 
Limewater do 
Filtered water do 
Formula No. 5 (Dr. Arthur R. Green). 
Cream (16 per cent) ounces__ 
Milk do 
Limewater do 
Milk sugar do 
Filtered water ^ do 
64 
4 
6 
60 
64 
64 
4 
80 
lOf 
21J 
6i 
4 
92 
4 
16 
6 
6 
102 
The three former mixtures are placed in 6-ounce bottles, the two 
latter in 3-ounce bottles and pasteurized by exposure of twenty min- 
utes to 157° F. A\Tiole milk is also pasteurized in 8 and 16 ounce 
bottles. 
Practically all infants’ milk depots in the United States are under 
general medical supervision, and, in addition, many depots are in 
direct charge of graduate nurses who prepare the milk and give in- 
structions to mothers in the care of infants. In some instances, 
visiting nurses also enter the homes of the children for the purpose of 
imparting instruction. 
With the view of determining the extent of this movement and its 
influence on the public health, an inquiry was sent by the Surgeon- 
General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service to the 
health officials of all cities in the United States containing a popula- 
tion of over 50,000. Replies Avere received from 65 of the 76 cities in 
this class, and acknowledgments are due to the health officers and 
others through whose courtesy the following tabulated information 
was obtained. The information thus obtained is of much interest 
and value. 
The following table contains a list of the cities in the United States 
in which infants’ milk depots are located, the dates of their establish- 
ment, the number of depots operated in each city during the season 
of 1907, the period of the year in which they were in operation, and 
by whom maintained : 
