Bulletin Author:New Jersey Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SANITARY ASPECTS OF MILK CONTROL Address of Dr. R. B. Fritz-Randolph, Assistant Director, State Department of Health INTRODUCTION What I shall have to ... more »say to you to-day relates almost exclusively to the sanitary aspects of milk control and will be confined principally to a discussion of a few facts and general principles and their application to practical milk production under conditions which exist in this state. It must not be forgotten for an instant, however, that the 'sanitary problems which are encountered in the regulation of the market milk supply are intimately connected with economic ones. In fact, these economic factors are so inseparably linked to the hygienic ones, that a consideration of purely hygienic requirements, without regard to their effect on the economic aspects of the industry, would not only be barren of results, but would actually result in further beclouding the situation. You will all admit, I think, that the milk business is one which comes legitimately under governmental control. Milk can properly be regarded as a public utility in the same sense as are water, gas and electricity. It is almost as necessary to the support of human life as water, and much more essential than gas or electricity, which all of us can, and many of us have to do without. Milk is the one universal food which, under our modern system of living, is absolutely necessary for the sustenance of babies and young children, and highly desirable for persons of all ages. In fact, it may be said without material inaccuracy that it is habitually used in greater or less quantities by everyone. It therefore comes naturally under the class of public utilities which are recognized as proper subjects for federal, state and municipal control. This governmental control, while alread...« less