Identifier: milkitsrelationt00unit (find matches)
Title: Milk and its relation to the public health
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: United States. National Institute of Health. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Milk Public health
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the milk route of this dairy.Each of the dots represents one case of typhoid fever and is placedupon the route of the dairy from which it was supplied with milk.There are 368 such cases on Bs route, including the 12 around the(~S~1, which is meant to represent the cafe supplied by B. B suppliedabout one-eleventh of the milk used in the town. H H and H are distributing dairies similar to B. C H and E B L are producing farms selling milk to B and alsopeddling some themselves. The dash line extending from E B Lrepresents his personal route of 5 houses in which 8 cases of typhoidoccurred. J H B and J B H are producing farms selling milk to B and alsoto distributing dairies H and H H. The double lines show the dairy to which the producer sold mostof his milk. Dash lines show the apparent course of the infective agent. C, D, E, F, and G are other dairies having routes in Stamford. DIAGRAM I. SHOWING RELATION OF MILK ROUTES TO TYPHOID FEVER CASES DURING THE EPIDEMICAT STAMFORD, CONN., 1895.
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31 cases. B. obtained the milk sold by him from other parties and pro-duced none himself. He was supplied regularly by 3 producers,E. B. L., C. H., J. B. H., and after April 12 also by J. H. B. C. H.besides furnishing milk to B. also supplied some in town himself, andamong his customers only one case occurred. J. B. H. produced 4cans of milk a day; one can went to B. ad 3 cans to dairyman H. H.,on whose route occurred only 5 cases of typhoid. E. B. L. furnishedB. from 140 to 150 quarts of milk daily; this constituted over one-half of B.s supply. In fact, all that E. B. L. produced went to B.,except a few quarts which he distributed to 5 families. It is signifi-cant that in these 5 households there were 8 cases of typhoid. B.s dairy was situated in a low, poorly drained part of the city.The water used to wash cans was from an uncemented dug well witha loose board cover 6 inches above the ground level. The well was13J feet deep and the water stood within 1 foot 9 inches of the top.There

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