Congressional Serial Set Volume 2490 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...that at times the food was not properly cooked. So we discharged him right then, and put a new cook in. Since she has been there I have not heard very much complaint about the food. The food there, as a rule, is very good. It is of good quality and there is a fair quantity at all times. The Chairman. Where do you get the most of the food; here in the city of Washington? Doctor Clark. I do not know about the purchase of it at all. I do not know a thing about that. I looked up the question of the milk supply yesterday. I knew something about the testimony here with regard to the food being deficient and of poor quality and I looked up the question of milk supply. We use a great deal of milk in this institution. In the hospital, B building, where we have 106 men, we use 15 gallons of milk a day. In one of my wards where I have 26 bedridden women, in conjunction with the regular sick diet they use 7 gallons of milk. There are about 26 patients, and every patient there gets a glass of milk between meals, at 10 o'clock, at 2 o'clock, and 8 o'clock, and probably at midnight. It is served in the form of a glass of milk or eggnog or a milk punch. Occasionally whisky is added--an ounce or a half ounce of whisky. That is daily. We use altogether in our sick wards throughout the institution 300 gallons of milk a day, and the sick wards get most of it. Most of our sick patients get milk on an average of every two hours. They get it at 10, at 2, and with their supper, and at meals. The milk is of very excellent quality-I think it is one of the best grades of milk in this country. It is from a tuberculin tested herd of cows. The Chairman. Are the cows owned by the institution? Doctor Clark. Yes, sir. The Chairman. Where are they kept? Doctor Clabk. They...