Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-03
BABIES NOW DYING
Hall The Deaths IN July and
August.
Cholera Inianiun 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.
Dangers Hidden in Milk Cans
Easily Avoided.

Think of III
A caild lust born has less chance Of
living than an octogenarianl
One child in every five IN the north
cru half of the United States dies before
II has lived year.
With cholera lnfantum raging as II IL
east and west this summer, these facts
cannot be put Ia parents too plainly.
In Boston, AS long ago as the middle
OF July, the death rate began To SHOW
remarkable increase over last year, aud
of the 2.i deaths recorded In a week
more than third Of them were OF
children under one year, and los, or
almost one-haif of them, under five
years. And the same ratio held in Chi
cago. where for the same week. out of
about four hundred deaths. 1873 were OF
babies. Children have been dying by
hundreds IN New York, and reports
from other cities are proporhonately
serious.
The mortality 10 not necessary
evil, for, as every single writer on the
subject from the eminent DIR. Routh,
TO whom every physician turns Tor
advice, down u the honest medical
student, whose opinions see light IN tue
popular medical journalsl agrees, 1T
arises principally from the improper
manner IN winch children are fed.
How general is the want OF proper
breast milk is measured by the mum
Der of houses IN which there Is nurs-
ing bottle.
But the mortality of children brought
up on q bottle has lessened for some
years past In considerable preparations.
For example, the morality which form
erly reached the figure Of ninety out OF
every one hundred, has been reduced
to an average of ten out Of every one
hundred where lactated food is used.
Ii was not until the manufacture of
iactated food WAS perfected by Prof.
Boynton of Vermont university, and
his associates, that n perfect substitute
was found for mothers milk. Wet
nurses had their fatal day. The
dsngers that are hidden in milk cans,
especially IN summer, have called for
public censure. Scores OF trade
foods" manufactured of secret in
gradients, have proved worse than
harmful.
The statement made at the end of an
investigation of cholera infantum IN
this country, that "infants fed Oh
lactated food suffer lees and fewer die
than those fed on any other" has
been more thoroughly verified within n
year than ever before.
Ii Is undoubtedly the most perfect
substitute 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 represent mothers milk. With
it is combined 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 properties essential
| to the maintenance of life and the
healthful growth Of bone, flesh and
| muscle. IL is palatable and children
take it naturally.
Best of all. lactated food, with which
| thousands OF little ones have been
started on their way to long life, is not
| out of reach. A dollar package will
| give an infant $50 meals. One of the
smaller sized packages that druggists
retail for % cents, makes ten pints Of
| the best and most reliable food for in.
fauts that there is. Ii Is really more
economical, n it Is safer, especially al
this season, than cows milk.
| These are trying days for the little
ones. and the more general thu use OF
lactated food becomes, the less cause
there Will be for sorrow now and regret
when the summer Is over.