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control of dairy herds, and upon a clean milk supply. It was
pointed out that if the public would decline to buy milk unless it
was guaranteed to come from clean cows, kept under clean conditions,
milked only by clean men, or would at any rate take the
trouble to enquire which milk-sellers in any immediate neighbourhood
gave most attention to sanitary conditions, and would confine
their patronage to such vendors, Sanitary Authorities would be
greatly helped in their endeavours to obtain a clean milk supply.
The need for reform in the conditions at present prevailing
n reference to the transit of milk, was urgently put forward, it
Deing declared that special ice vans should be a sine qua non. It
was pointed out again and again, that the most important point in
securing the purity and good quality of the milk was that it should
be produced by healthy and clean cows, kept in healthy and clean
surroundings, and periodical and frequent inspection of Dairies
was strongly advocated. A Resolution was passed urging the
Council of the Royal Institute of Public Health to consider the.
whole question, with a view to securing in the interests of the
public health a clean milk supply for the consumer.
Hinging very much upon this question was the consideration
of the excessive infantile mortality in large towns, and upon this
point several papers were read showing the good work that had
been done amongst communities where Municipal Milk Depots
for the supply of humanized milk had been inaugurated. It was
shown that both at Liverpool and Battersea the infantile mortality
had been considerably reduced, and it was thought that the provision
of these Milk Depots for the use of children who, for one
reason or another, were deprived of the natural mother's milk, had
been of great benefit. It is not in the slightest advocated that this