|
| What further legislation is needed? |
| Does present law prescribe adequate penalties? |
| |
| =Education= |
| |
| Should state system of lectures before agricultural institutes |
| be extended? |
| Should Maryland plan of traveling school be adopted as means |
| of reaching producer? |
| What can be done to assist Teachers College in its plan for |
| milk exhibit? |
| What can be done to teach mothers to detect unclean milk and |
| to care properly for milk purchased? |
| How can tenement mothers keep milk at proper temperature? |
| Can nothing be done to increase the supply and cheapen the |
| price of ice? |
| Is it desirable that a local committee be formed to cooeperate |
| with the Department of Health and County Medical Society? |
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Unfortunately Hartley and his contemporaries had never heard of disease
germs that are carried by unclean milk into the human stomach. Science
had not yet proved that many forms of barnyard filth could do quite as
much harm as distillery refuse. Commerce had not invented milk bottles
of glass or paper. The law of 1864 failed in two particulars: (1) it
did not demand cleanliness from cow to consumer; (2) it did not provide
means for its own enforcement, for learning whether everything and
everybody that had to do with milk was clean. Not knowing of germs and
their love for a warm climate and warm food, they naturally did not
prohibit a temperature above fifty degrees from the time of milking to
the time of sale. How much has been left for our generation to do to
secure pure milk is illustrated by the opening sentence of this
chapter, and more specifically by the programme of a milk conference
held in New York in November, 1906, the board of health joining in the
call. The four-page folder is reproduced in facsimile (excepting the
names on the fourth page), because it states the universal pr