The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-08-12
BABIES NOW DYING
Halt the Deaths in July and
August.
Cholera Infantum is Raging Like an
Epidemic.
Mothers Warned to Look to the
Feeding.
The Mortality not a Necessary
Evil.
Dangers Hidden in Milk Cans Easily
Avoided.

Think of it,
A child just born has less chance of living
than an Octogenarian
one child in every five in the northern
half of the United States dies before it has
lived year.
With cholera infantum raging as it is east
and west this summer, these facts cannot
be put to parents too plainly.
In Boston, as long ago as the middle of
July, the death rate began to show a re-
markable increase over last year. and of
the ga deaths recorded in a week, more
than third of them were of children I'M
der one year, and 10S, or almost one-half of
them, under five years. And the same ratio
held In Chicago, where for the same week,
out of about 400 deaths, 1913 were of babies.
Children have been dying by hundreds in
New York, and reports from other cities
are proportlonately serious.
This mortality is not necessary evil,
for, as every single writer on the subject
IRON the eminent DR.. ROuth, to whom
every physician turns for advice, down to
the honest medical student, whose opinions
W. AtF7iAS III bliS pOpuldl
agrees, it arises principally from the inn
proper manner in which children are fed.
How general is the want of proper breast
milk is measured by the number of houses
IN which there is nursing bottle.
But the mortality of children brought up
on bottle has lessened for some years past
in considerable proportions. For example,
thn fol,
figure of so out of every one hundred, has
been reduced to an average of 10 out of
every 100 where lactated food is used
1t was not until the manufacture of lac
tated food was perfected by Prof. Boynton
of Vermont University, and his associates,
that a perfect substitute was found for
mothers milk. Wet nurses had their fatal
day. The dangers that are hidden in milk
cans, especially in summer, have called for
public censure Scores of trade Goods"
manufactured of secret ingredients, have
proved worse than harmful.
The statement made at the end of an in
vestigation of cholera infantum in this
country, that infants fed on lactated food
suffer less and fewer die than those fed on
any other" has been more thoroughly ver-
fed within year than ever before.
1t is undoubtedly the most perfect substi-
tute for mothers milk that science and the
experience of years can produce.
Like natures food, its basis is the purest |
sugar of milk, in proportions to closely |
mothers milk. With it is COM
bined pure barley malt, the finest wheat
gluten. and the nutritious elements of the
Oat, and the mixture is thoroughly cooked
by high steam heat. 1t contains all the
essential to the maintenance of
lille and the healthful growth of bone, flesh
and muscle. 1t is palatable and children
take it naturally.
Best of all, lactated food, with which
of little ones have been started
On their way to long life, is not out OF
reach. A dollar package will give an in
tant 100 meals. One of the smaller-siZed
packages that druggists retail for 20 cents,
makes 10 pints of the best and treliable
iood for infants that there is. 1t is really
more economical, as it is safer, especially
Vt this season, than cows milk.
These are trying days for the little ones,
md the more general the use of lactated
God becomes, the less cause there will be
or sorrow now and regret when the sum-
ner is over.