in this
country. While visiting a distillery for the purpose of trying to
persuade the owner to invest his money in another business, he noticed
that "slops smoking hot from the stills" were being carried to cow
stables. He followed and was nauseated by the sights and odors. Several
hundred uncleaned cows in low, suffocating, filthy stables were being
fed on "this disgusting, unnatural food." Similar disgust has in many
other American cities caused the first effort to better dairy
conditions. Hartley could never again enjoy milk from distillery cows.
Furthermore, his story of 1841 made it impossible for any readers of
newspapers in New York to enjoy milk until assured that it was not
produced by distillery slops. The instinctive loathing and the
discomfort of buyers awakened the commerce motives of milk dealers, who
covered their wagons with signs declaring that they "no longer" or
"never" fed cows on distillery refuse. But Hartley could not stop when
the anti-nuisance stage was reached. He did not let up on his fight
against impure or adulterated milk until the state legislature declared
in 1864 that _every baby, city born or country born, no matter how
humble its home, has the right to pure milk_.

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| =Clean Milk for New York City= |
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| =CONFERENCE= |
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| =ROOM 44, N.Y. ACADEMY OF MEDICINE= |
| =No. 17 WEST 43D STREET= |
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| =November 20th, 1906, Tuesday 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.= |
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| =ESSENTIAL FACTS AS TO NEW YORK CITY= |
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| =Manhattan's Infant Mortality= |
| (=UNDER 5 YRS.=) |
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| June to September, 1904, 4428 |
| June to September, 1905, 4687