Whether work is done right, whether inspectors do their full duty, whether babies are protected, can be learned only from statements in black and white that show accurately the conditions of dairies and milk shops, the character of milk found and tested by inspectors, and the number of babies known to have been sick or known to have died from intestinal diseases chiefly due to unsafe milk. Any teacher or parent can learn for himself, or can teach children to learn, what steps are taken to guarantee the right to pure milk by using a table such as Table III. Whether conditions at the dairy make pure milk impossible can be told by any one who can read the score card used by New York City (Table IV).
MILK INSPECTION WITHIN NEW YORK CITY, 1906
======================================+===============+=============== | New York | Each borough +-------+-------+-------+------- | Stores| Wagons| Stores| Wagons +-------+-------+-------+------- FIELD | | | | Permits issued during 1906 | | | | Permits revoked during 1906 | | | | For discontinuance of selling | | | | For violation of law | | | | Average permits in force in 1906 | | | | | | | | INSPECTION | | | | Regular inspections | | | | Inspections at receiving stations | | | | Total | | | | Average inspections per permit per | | | | year | | | | Specimens examined | | | | Samples taken | | | | | | | | CONDITIONS FOUND | | | | Inspections finding milk above 50° | | | | % of such discoveries to total | | | | inspections | | | | Inspections finding adulteration | | | | Warning given | | | | Prosecuted | | | | % of adulterations found to | | | | inspections | | | | | | | | Rooms connected contrary to | | | | sanitary code | | | | Ice box badly drained | | | | Ice box unclean | | | | Store unclean | | | | Utensils unclean | | | | Milk not properly cooled | | | | Infectious disease | | | | | | | | Persons found selling without permit | | | | | | | | ACTION TAKEN | | | | DESTRUCTION OF MILK | | | | Lots of milk destroyed for being | | | | over 50° | | | | Quarts so destroyed | | | | Lots of milk destroyed for being | | | | sour | | | | Quarts so destroyed | | | | Lots of milk destroyed for being | | | | otherwise adulterated | | | | Quarts so destroyed | | | | Total quarts destroyed | | | | | | | | NOTICES ISSUED | | | | To drain and clean ice box | | | | To clean store | | | | | | | | CRIMINAL ACTIONS BEGUN | | | | For selling adulterated milk | | | | For selling without permit | | | | For interference with inspector | | | | Total | | | | ======================================+===============+===============