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cases it has been found possible to remove the source of danger with- 
out putting the dairyman out of business, and whenever possible such 
measures, less radical so far as the dairyman is concerned, have been 
adopted. While the method outlined above for detecting and remov- 
ing danger from infected milk is not ideal, in that it does not reveal 
the presence or the location of the disease until a small or possibly a 
large number of persons have been infected, yet, so far as is known, it 
is the only practicable method that has yet been devised. The safety 
of the community with respect to the possible spread of communi- 
cable diseases of human beings through milk depends primarily on 
clean intelligent dairying, and for this there is no substitute. 
COST or 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 APPKOPEIATIONS. 
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 chemist 900 
GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS. 
[Pro rata chargeable to milk-inspection service.] 
20 per cent salary of health officer $800 
20 per cent salary of assistant health officer 500 
Salary of supervising inspector 1, 200 
10 per cent salary of chief inspector 180 
25 per cent salary of chemist 450 
Salary of inspector detailed to assist chemist 900 
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 allotment for postage 124 
40 per cent contingent fund for chemical laboratory 400 
75 per cent appropriation for traveling expenses 4, 500 
Total 19,004 
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