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to sell foods may sell milk and you can buy it in a grocery store or a drug store,
etc. Being in bottle this is, of course, quite unobjectionable. The number of
persons who drink milk in restaurants is amazing, but that the poorest classes
and more particularly the negroes use much of it I very much doubt. In the
poorer quarters much tinned and condensed milk appears to be sold.
In Richmond I should like to say that I had the honour of lecturing to the
students at the medical school.
The chief of the other towns visited included Charlottesville, the chief city in
Albemarle county, and famous as the seat of the University of Virginia, designed
and built by Jefferson. It is fairly progressive, the population being about 6,000
and certain to increase. We received much attention from the medical staff here
and saw an (American) football game—one of the least interesting pastimes I have
ever witnessed.
Roanoke, a thriving city of about 60,000, is only about 40 years old. The
bulk of the water supply of Roanoke is obtained from a spring that escapes from
under a high hill within the boundaries of the city itself. The water is as clear
as crystal and as it emerges contains only about 2 germs per cubic centimetre.
It is carried a short distance in an open channel into a reservoir whence it is
distributed to the city. For safety's sake a little chlorine is added. The yield of
the spring is about two-million gallons per day.
Another remarkable town from the water point of view is Suffolk. It is
remarkable because it has more water than it can use and more plant than it
knows what to do with. The plant was greatly increased during the war to meet
the needs of the military and was handed over to the town after the armistice.
The other towns—Pulaski, Norfolk, Suffolk, etc.—need no mention, except
the last perhaps which is the centre of the pea-nut (monkey nut) industry, which is
a source of fortune to many farmers and manufacturers alike.
I have written such a lot that I hesitate to add more. I must say, however,
that most of the places I have visited I have found very dirty; the streets are
neglected and though things are nice when they are new they are not looked after
properly. It is easier, of course, to get new things than to find people able or
willing to help you to maintain what you have. In the towns also there are always
fires to solve the housing problem and to take the place of legal provisions as to
unhealthy areas.
School building is going ahead rapidly and many of the places I have seen
I have liked very much. Most are of brick and are admirably designed.
BALTIMORE.
Since I last wrote from Norfolk, Virginia, at the close of our tour of that
State, all my time with the exception of a few days in Baltimore, has been spent
in the State of Massachusetts.
Our object in going to Baltimore was to visit the Johns Hopkins University
there, and more particularly the School of Hygiene and Public Health which is
becoming, if it has not already become, one of the most famous institutions of this
kind in the world.
A great deal of the money with which the school is run comes from the
Rockefeller Foundation, which, as I have already explained, is being devoted
mainly to the solution of public health problems. Apart from this money there
is a great deal more, so much indeed that research into any subject, no matter how
complicated or how long it is likely to last, or how much it is to cost, is readily
undertaken.
Indeed, this matter of investigation in laboratories or outside them is one
that appears to me to receive every possible encouragement everywhere in the