The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-01
RESEARCH ON MILK SUPPLY
NEW ROCK EFELLER INSTITUTE
 ANNOUNCES FIRST RES ULTS.

Tnspected" and "Certified" MiIk
 Now to He Had When Dealers sub-
 init Their Supply to the Commit sion
 Appointed by the County Medical
 Society.
 The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, which John D, Rockefeller re- gently founded makes an interesting and important communica ton to the public in an exhaustive report just completed of an investigation of New York citys milk supply, which was con- ducted last summer. The institute was founded, as it's name indicates, for med- ical research, and now has nineteen members at work in it's general field. Two of these are now in Europe and several of the others are engaged here in New York. It. was determined, how ever, that immediate problems in pub lie hygiene were properly within the scope of the institutes activities and supply as one of the most important. It was the opinion of the Health De- partment that much of the high infant mortality of the city during the sum mer was attributable to the quality of the milk. on which so many of the tene- ment children are nourished, and also that some outbreaks of typhoid fever and other diseases were traceable to the same cause.
 This opinion the institute investigat- ors find to be well founded. The revela- tions of their report will make interest ing reading to citizens of this town; not so much in the disclosure of the perils in impure milk as in the declarations that so little of the milk supplied to the city is af the highest character and that so huch of it is produced, trans ported and sold under conditions men, acing to the welfare of so large num- Der of human beings. The report, how ever is not a raven cry of i'll boding, but a guide to better future conditions. The institute investigators themselves have produced an improvement in cer- tain directions already, though without any official authority and the report points the way to the achievement of better conditions generally. The possi- bility of this lies wholly with the pub- lc as an enlightened demand must precede a ~roper supply. and the hope of the ins >se that its efforts may work I~ is predictedson a cam
 law, authority uish shall have jurisdiction as far as the farms, is advocated; cer- ti1cation of milk is already unofficially set up as one means of encouraging bet ter conditions, and the sealing of Vtlk produced and bottled at properly regu- lated sources is mentioned as the best solution of the general problem of | bringing the best milk to the city con sumer The report says in part:
 The work of personal inspection has now been continued for over eight months and over one hundred farms have been examined. Some of them have been visited again and again for the purpose of watching the carrying out of improvements suggested.
 As an example of what may be ac- complished by the cooperation of a dealer and an intelligent farmer with the inspector, the following instance is taken from one of the inspectors re- ports The inspector was taken by prominent dealer to visit a farm sup plying one of his creameries. As they started toward the stable the farmer apologetically said that the place was not fit for them to enter, but the reply was made that if it was fit for the cows it was good enough for them. The milk dealer was simply horror-stricken at the appearance presented. The only en- trance to the barn was through yard in whose center was stagnant pool surrounded by muck and mire six or eight inches deep. Through this they waded and entered a rather small, low studded barn. They felt almost suffo- cated by the heat from the sun stream ing through the windows and the foul odors arising from the manure which lay thick upon the floor. A glance show ed the dirt-covered cows stamping rest lessly while trying to drive away the stinging flies