Samuel Hopkins Adams writes of the economic value of pure food as
follows:
Sterilization was tried in Rochester. It did not work well. The
milk was not nutritious. Then Dr. Goler hit upon what seems to
me the centrally important truth in the milk problem; that not
the milk itself, but everything with which it comes in contact,
should be made germ-proof. And as the basis upon which it all
rests, stands the vital lesson of hygienic economics which this
country is learning with appreciably growing enlightenment; that
bad air, bad water, bad housing, bad sewering, dirty streets,
and poor or impure food of whatever sort, cheaper tho they may
be in the immediate expense, come back upon a community or a
nation, in the long run, with a bill of arrears upon which
the not-to-be-avoided percentage is appallingly exorbitant.
(Text.)--_McClure’s Magazine._
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=Health in Large Cities=--See IMPROVED CONDITIONS.