Digest of comments on The pharmacopia of the United States of America and on the National formulary .. 1905-1922 . ealth, Mass., May, 1907, vol. 2, 117. EXPLAXATIllN (IF DIAIiKAM III. J II. RBN. ETT. () II. .1 .M ( aiv the farmers ]>vn-tliieinii milk. A is the milk dealer deliver!iij^- milk in huth .Milton and the milk dealer deliverine- milk in Hyde Park. The lines connecting the producing- farms and the milk dealersshow to which dairy the farmer sold his milk. The large squares re])resent Milton. Dorchester, and Hyde Park. The dash-lines extending from


Digest of comments on The pharmacopia of the United States of America and on the National formulary .. 1905-1922 . ealth, Mass., May, 1907, vol. 2, 117. EXPLAXATIllN (IF DIAIiKAM III. J II. RBN. ETT. () II. .1 .M ( aiv the farmers ]>vn-tliieinii milk. A is the milk dealer deliver!iij^- milk in huth .Milton and the milk dealer deliverine- milk in Hyde Park. The lines connecting the producing- farms and the milk dealersshow to which dairy the farmer sold his milk. The large squares re])resent Milton. Dorchester, and Hyde Park. The dash-lines extending from A to B into the towns represent themilk routes carrying the supposedly infectious milk. Each dot represents a case of diphtheria and is placed on themilk route from which it was supplied. C. D. E, F. G. and H represent the other dairies selling milk. Thelines extending from them into the towns represent their routes andare inserted to show their freedom from diphtheria cases. DIAGRAM III. SHOWING RELATION OF MILK ROUTES TO DIPHTHERIA CASES DURING THE OUTBREAKAT DORCHESTER, MILTON, AND HYDE PARK, 1907. Tnilton. 37 Investigation showed tliat all the cases in Dorchester and Milton\MTe sui^jilied with milk b}- one dairy, A, with the exception of 3\N liich were all in one house in Alilton and were secondary to a caseI Iported Ijeiore the onset of the outbreak. In Hyde Park all the milk from dairyman B. DairyA bought its milk from 6i producers: J H, K B N, E T T, O H, J M B, and C F J (see diagramill). On none of the producing farms were any cases of dii^htheria1 IIHid except on that of C F J, where it was discovered tliat a childIkmI been seized with the disease on April 11, and that the cooler inwhich the milk was mixed was washed in the house and that thisiillice was performed by the person who had the care of the sick same producer, C F J, also sold about one-third of his output tolairyman B, who delivered it in Hyde Park. Prompt action on thepart of the


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