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We therefore respectfully petition your Honorable Body, to pass such ordinaces as will prohibit the sale of such milk,and that such ordinaces provide for the appointment of an inspector with the necessary powers to prohibit the sale and distribution of the all such milk, and all other unhealthy milk, and condemn the same. And your petitioners will ever pray. The sale of swill and malt fed milk is injurious to health and is the cause of a great number of deaths from Cholera Infantum. Such sale should be prohibited by law. Geo. H. T. Sparling MD Health Officer