Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
BABIES NOW Dying
Half the Deaths in July
and August.
Cholera Iltantum Is Raging
Like an Epidemic.
Mothers Warned to Look to
the Feeding.
The Mortality Not a Neces-
sary Evil.
Dangers Hidden in Milk Cans
Easily Avoided.

Think oft.
The child just born has less chance of living
than an octogenarianl
One child In every ave in the northern half of the
United States dies before IT has lived year.
With cholera .infantum raging as 1t is east and
west this summer, these facts cannot be put to
parents too plainly.
In Boston, as long ago ss the middle of July. the
death rate began to show a remarkable increase
over last year, and of the ga deaths recorded in a
week, more than third OF them were of children
under one year, and los. or almost one-haf 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 Droportionately serious.
This mortality Is not necessary evil. for.
every single writer the subject 0rom the emf
nent DR.. Routh, to whom every physician turns
for advice down to the honest medical student,
whose opinions see light in the popular medical
journas) agrees 1t arises prin cipaly from the i'm
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 q nursing bottle.
But the mortality of children brought up
bottle has lessened for years past in consider
able proportions. For example, the mortality which
formerly reached the figure of 80 out of every one
hundred. has been reduced to an average of 10 out
of every 100 where lactated food is used.
1t not until the manufacture of lactated food
was perfected by Prof. Boynton of Vermont Uni
versity, and his associates, that perfect substi-
tute was found for mothers milk. " ct nurses had
their fatal day. The dangers that hidden in
milk cans especially in summer. have called for
public censure. Scores OF tra1e foods ~ manu-
factured of secret ingredients, have proved worse
than harmful.
The statement made at the end Of an investiga-
ton OF cholera infantum in this country. that 'n-
fants fed lactatcd food suffer less and fewer die
than those fed 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 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. It 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 1t naturally.
Best of all, lsctated food. with which thousands
of little ones have been started on their way to
long life, is not out of reach. dollar pacKage
will give an infant $50 meals One of the smaller
sized packages that druggists retail for Is cents
makes 10 pints of the best and most reliable food
for infsnts that there is. 1t Is really more
economical 1t is safer especially at this season,
than cows milk.
These are trying days for the little ones, and tho
more general the use of Iactated food becomes the
less cause there will be for sorrow and regret
when the summer is over.