I wish to express my gratitude to the Health Officials and Milk Inspectors of the different cities and towns of the State for the valuable aid they have rendered the department in sampling milk in their several localities and forwarding same to the laboratory of the State Department of Health for analysis. The results of such anaylses have served as a guide to inform this department of the quality of milk dispensed in their respective territories (this office being supplied promptly with a copy of the analysis of every sample of milk taken in the State, thereby being enabled to know just where violations are occurring).

The thanks of the department is hereby tendered to the director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Dr. E. H. Jenkins, and to its Chief Chemist, Dr. E. M. Bailey, also to its staff of workers. The splendid service they have rendered this department is worthy of all praise. We have been compelled to overburden them very severely at times, but they have taken it good-naturedly, even though it has compelled them to work overtime many times in order to analyze samples before they might spoil. As in other lines of work, they have been handicapped by a shortage of chemists and inadequate funds for the everincreasing work of their department.

I also wish to commend the work of the director and staff of the Laboratory of the State Department of Health. They have ever been willing to give us assistance in analytical work whenever called upon.

The regular working force of the Dairy and Food Commissioner's Department consists of the Commissioner, the Deputy Commissioner, two stenographer-clerks, eight dairy and food inspectors, and one woman food inspector for stores, as follows:

Thomas Holt, Dairy and Food Commissioner, Newington H. O. Daniels, Deputy Dairy and Food Commissioner,

Middletown

Wilhelmina Hurst, Chief Clerk and Stenographer,

Hartford
Hartford

Ruth B. Sinclair, Clerk and Stenographer
William J. Warner, Dairy and Food Inspector, Gilead
George T. Fowler, Dairy and Food Inspector, No. Branford
James C. Gilbert, Dairy and Food Inspector, Newington
Fitz Henry Paine, Dairy and Food Inspector, Abington

Torrington

Ralph A. Ayer, Dairy and Food Inspector,
Carroll, D. Blanchard, Dairy and Food Inspector,

Fred H. Page, Dairy and Food Inspector,
R. A. Splettstoeszer, Dairy and Food Inspector,

Mrs. Kate E. Stadmueller, Food Inspector,

Newtown
Durham

New Britain

Elmwood

EXPENSE ACCOUNT

Commissioner's salary
Office and traveling expenses
Deputy Commissioners' salary
Office and traveling expenses
W. J. Warner, services
W. J. Warner, expenses
G. T. Fowler, services
G. T. Fowler, expenses
W. F. Potter, services
W. F. Potter, expenses
I. P. Campbell, services
I. P. Campbell, expenses
J. C. Gilbert, services
J. C. Gilbert, expenses
R. F. Kimberly, services
R. F. Kimberly, expenses
F. H. Paine, services
F. H. Paine, expenses
R. A. Ayer, services

R. A. Ayer, expenses

Mrs. K. E. Stadmueller, services..

$4,000.00

$7,067.67

...

3,200.00

2,163.25

2,926.50

3,901.53

2,194.50

2,042.30

1,236.00

1,449.67

120.00

94.08

890.00

807.64

584.75

917.58

2,625.70

2,273.00

2,861.25

2,279.50

1,347.97

419.60

.....

Mrs. K. E. Stadmueller, expenses
Mrs. B. G. Kearnes, services

Mrs. B. G. Kearnes, expenses

A. Tilden, services

A. Tilden, expenses

E. Hudson, services
E. Hudson, expenses
M. J. LaMere, services
M. J. LaMere, expenses
F. S. Chapman, services
F. S. Chapman, expenses
C. D. Blanchard, services
C. D. Blanchard, expenses
F. H. Page, services

...

F. H. Page, expenses
R. A. Splettstoeszer, salary
R. A. Splettstoeszer, expenses