St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-08-11
BABIES NOW DYING.
Half the Deaths in July
and August.
Cholera lnfantum is Raging
Like an Epidemic.
MOTHERS WARNED TO LOOK
TO THE FEEDING.
THE MORTALITY NOT A NEG
ESSARY EVIL.
DANGERS HIDDEN IN MILK
CANS EASILY AVOIDED.


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 a 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 mid
die of July, the death rate began to
show remarkable increase over last
year, and of the 224 deaths recorded
in week, more than a third of them
were children under one year, and
1OS, or almost one-half of them, un-
FIVE years. And the same ratio held
in Chicago, where for the same week
out of about 400 deaths, 1913 were
babies. Children have been diving
by the hundreds in New York, and
reports from other cities are proper
tionatelv serious.
This mortality is not a necessary
evil, for, as every single writer on
the subject (from the eminent DR..
Routb, to whom every physician
turns for advice, down to the hon
est medical student, whose opinions
see light in the popular medical Jour
nals) agrees, it arises principally
from the improper manner in which
children are fed.
How general is the want of proper
breast milk is measured by the num-
Der of houses in which there is a nurs-
ing bottle.
But the mortality of children
brought up on bottle has lessened
for some years past in considerable
proportion. For example, the NOR
tally which formerly reached the
figure of 90 out of every 100, has
been reduced to an average of 10 out
of every 100 where lactatcd food is
used.
1t was not until the manufacture
Of lactated food was perfected by
Prot. Boynton of Vermont Univer
s1ty, and his associates, that a per.
feet substitute was found for moth.
er's milk. Wet nurses had their ia
tai day. The dangers that are hid
den In milk cans, especially in sum
mer,. have called for public censure.
Scores OF trade foods" manufac
tured of secret ingredients, have
proved worse than harmful.
The statement made at the end O.
an investigation of cholera infantum
in this country, that infants fed or
lactated food suffer less and fewer
die than those fed on any other" has
been more thoroughly verified with
in a year than ever before.
1t 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 proportion
to closely represent mothers milk
With it is combined pure barley malt
the finest wheat gluten, and the nu
tritious elements of the oat, and the
mixture is thoroughly cooked by
high steam heat 1t contains all The
properties essential to the mainten
ance of life and the healthful growth
of bone, flesh and muscle. 1t is palat
able and children take it naturally
Best of all, lactated food, will
which thousands of little ones have
been started on their way to Ions
life, is not out of reach. A dollal
package will give an infant Isl
meals. One of the smaller-sizeo
packages that druggists retail TO
25 cents makes 10 pints of the bes
and most reliable food for infant
that there is. 1t is really more eco
nomical, as it is safer, especially a
this season, than cows milk.
These are trying days for the littl
ones, and the more general the US
of lactated food becomes, the les
cause there will be for sorrow nov
and regret when the summer is over