Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-10
CHARITY IN PARIS.


Nurturine the Babes Of the Poor Quarters |
the Milk Of Asses.
In recent years, in France, conscien- |
tious efforts have been made to ascertain |
the principal causes of the loss Of popu-
lation, and it has been demonstrated by
numerous facts that one of these causes
consists in the physical degeneration in
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
permanent 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
from an8mia's cruel tortures.
The administration of the hospital is
arranged in two separated pavilions,
where there 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
care of the establishment, beginning
with being weighed in the balance the
same day they make their appearance,
the 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 diet of the most
tonic kind, if it had been previously fed
from 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 commrnic ating 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 sepa
rated by short covered passageway
j Nothing is more picturesque than the
spectacle of the lactation of the babes ii
l. this Enclosure every morning.
A The nurses, dressed in dark gowns
= with white caps and aprons, each carry
4 ing child on the right arm and LITTLE
Y seat in the left hand, present themselve
g in exact turn to the women who hav
C charge of the animals, and they hold tn
d child, applying its lips to the teats of tn
!. docile animal. The children suck witt
o avidity the liquid nutriment, which
n fresh and of agreeable taste.
"a The administration of public assist
j, ance of Paris has calculated that on
young ass is able to lactate abundant
,s for space of nine or ten months, an
If when this period has passed they ar
is sold and replaced by others. 1t is we
o. known that the milk of asses, by il
a, vivifying qualities and its nutrition
n, principles. assimilates in great degre
,r the milk of the nurse, and these dish
o. herited and sick children, enjoying il
"a beneficial effects by its permanent an
<. methodical use, are restored little b
ry little to health and vigor.-La nustr
cion Espanola.