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Pasteurized Milk at Randall's Island

1911; American Medical Association; Volume: LVI; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/jama.1911.02560060053027

2376-8118

Christine Drake,

Neuroscience of respiration and sleep

To the Editor: —The statistics quoted in our article were taken from page 243 of the chapter on "Morbidity and Mortality Statistics as Influenced by Milk" in Bulletin 56 of the Hygienic Laboratory, entitled "Milk and Its Relation to Public Health." The article is written by Dr. J. M. Eager, Assistant Surgeon-General, Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. No reference is made to the original source of these statistics, and we took it for granted that they were taken from the reports of the Infant Asylum at Randall's Island, by the government official. We have not had a chance to examine the original records giving the mortality figures for the Infant Asylum at Randall's Island, and are glad to note that Dr. Stowell says that the figures quoted "are correct for the most part." The fall in the death-rate since 1879 is attributed in our article to the installation of a