St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-03
BABIES NOW DYING.
Half the Deaths in July
and August,
Cholera Infantum Is Raging
Like an Epidemic.
Mothers Warned to Look
to the Feeding.
The Mortality Not a Nee
essary Evil.
Dangers Hidden in Milk Cans
Easily Avoided.
Dangers Hidden i'm 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 north
ern half of the United States dies before
it has lived year.
With cholera intantum 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
remarkable increase over last year, and
OF the 224 deaths recorded in a week,
more than third of them were of chill
dren under 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, 19S were of babies. Children
have been dying by hundreds in New
York, and reports from other cities are
pr0pOrtionately serious.
This mortality is not necessary evil,
for, as every single writer on the subject
(froIn the eminent DR.. ROuth, to whom
every physician turns for advice, down
to the honest medical student, whose
opinions see light in the popular med
lcal jOurnals) agrees, it arises princi-
pally from the improper 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 a nursing
bottle.
But the mortality of children brought
up on bottle has leSSened for some
years past in considerable proportions.
For example, the mortality which for
merly reached the figure of 80 out of
every 100, has been reduced to an aver
age of 10 out of every 100 where iactated
food is used.
1t was not until the manufacture of
lactated food was perfected by Prof.
BOynton, of Vermont University, and
his associates, that perfect substitute
was found for mothers milk. Wet
nurses had their fatal day. The dan
gers that are hidden in milk cans, eSpe-
cially in summer, have called for public
censure. Scores of trade foods" man
ufactured of secret ingredients, have
proved worse than harmful.
The statement made at the end of an
investigation of cholera infantum in
this country, that "infants fed ON lact-
ated food suffer less and fewer die than
those fed on any other" has been more
thoroughly verified within 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 proportions to
closely represent 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 properties essential
to the maintenance of life and the
healthful growth of bone, flesh and
muscle. 1t 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 the drug
gists retail for 25 cents, makes ten pints
of the best and most reliable food for
infants that there is. 1t is really more
economical, as it is safer. especially at
this season, than cows milk.
These are trying days for the little
ones, and the more general the use of
lactated food becomes. the less cause
there will be for sorrow now and regret
when the summer is over.