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infantum is even greater. For the year ending 1891, the Report 
.shows 
695 deaths from consumption, and 
486 deaths from cholera infantum. 
The Report then remarks “ cholera infantum was the cause 
t)f more than one-third of all the deaths from prominent zymo¬ 
tic diseases in New Hampshire in 1891.” 
In Ontario for the year ending 1892, in a population of 
over 2,000,000, phthisis caused 2592 deaths and cholera infantum 
670, but among the 23,190 children under one year old, cholera 
infantum caused 600 deaths, while phthisis caused 283 deaths. 
These figures are pregnant with meaning. Cholera infantum, 
or milk diarrhoea, is purely a disease of infants, due as a rule 
to improper feeding, with impure milk. Yet in Massachusetts 
It was the cause of 2898 out of 11,668 deaths from the six 
most prominent zymotic diseases. In other words, cholera in¬ 
fantum, was the cause of one-fourth of all deaths from all promi¬ 
nent zymotic diseases in Massachusetts in 1892, and of more 
than one-third of all deaths from all prominent zymotic diseases 
in New Hampshire in 1891. 
Cholera infantum is essentially a preventable disease and by 
the simple introduction of better methods of keeping and caring 
for dairy stock, and milk, and by a realization of the absolute 
importance and necessity of perfect cleanliness, this source of 
danger can be immeasurably lessened. Knowing what is needed, 
then it becomes our duty to spread information on this subject 
by every means in our power. 
If improvements are not introduced, and if advantage is not 
taken of our increased knowledge on the subject, then the 
prophesies of certain Western men may come true, and Western 
pasteurized milk may enter into serious competition with the 
dairy industry in the East. It behooves our farmers, then, to 
brace up, and for their own sake do what they can to improve 
the purity and keeping quality of our milk supply. 
