Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1889-11-16
CHARITY ~ PARIS
NuI turi the Babes of the Poor ouarta-s
on the Milk of Asses.

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the Milk of Asses.
in recent years, in France, Consoles
tious efforts have been made to ascertas'
the principal causes of the loss of popn
.ation. and it has been demonstrated b.
numerous facts that one Of these causes
consists in the physical degeneration III
duced by deficiency of Authorization In
infancy; and the most eminent physi-
clans of Paris, and the director of public
assistance, have endeavored to modify
and improve the system of nutrition in
the public charitable institutions, provid-
ing for recently born children lactation
adequate to the necessities of the tenn
p-Tament and constitution.
In the Hospital for Infants Diseases,
situated in Sabres street, there exists
section for rickety boys and girls, whose
miserable aspect produces an impression
Of pain upon the mind-unfortunate be-
ings who have inherited the organic
vices of their parents, and who suffer
rom an@mias cruel tortures.
The administration of the hospital is
arranged in two separated pavilions.
where $here is much ventilation, with
large windows that look out upon gar
den, and whose walls have double rows
of willow cradles perfectly equipped.
The newly born receive here the personal
iare of the establishment, beginning
vgtS Being weighed in the balance the
aAlne day they make their appearance,
che operation being frequently repeated
almost every month in order to determine
with exactness the development of the
child. The little one is subjected to an
especially nutritious dict of the most
tonic kind, if it had been previously fed
from a refractory goat liable to convey
contagious germs, it having been found
BY experiment that the milk of this ami
NAL, although possessing nutritive prin-
ciples of the most salutary kind, presents
the inconvenience of communicating by
absorption the effects of those nervous
accidents to which the goat is subject.
The public charities of Paris, advised
by the wise doctors of medicine, have
substituted for the milk of goats that of
the ass and have installed an ample yard
near the pavilion of the rickety and
scrofulous children, which is only spi>a.
rated by n short covered passageway.
Nothing is more picturesque than the
spectacle of the lactafion Of the babes in
this inclosure every morning.
The nurses, dressed in dark gowns
with white caps und aprons, each carry
ing child ON the right arm and little
seat in the left hand, present themselves
in exact turn to the women who have
charge of the animals, and they hold the
child, applying its lips to the teats Of .he
docile animal The children suck with
avidity the liquid nutriment, which Is
fresh and of agreeable taste.
The administration of public asEsst-
ance of Paris has calculated that one
young ass is able to lactate abundantly
for a space of nine or ten months, and
when this period has passed they are
sold and replaced by others. 1t is well
known that the milk of asses, by its
vivifying qualities and its nutritious
principles, assilnilates in u great degree
the milk of the nurse, and these disiD.
herited and sick children. enjoying is
beneficial effects by its permanent and
methodical use, are restored little by
little to healtp and vigof -i-~ tlistrs
cion EsDanol'