The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-07-22

Unless you have put your child on
safe diet of lactated FOOD, or nave ~ q.
hand TO be used at once on the nrst
Indication OF looseness or loss Oh
strength. the door is wide open Tor
fatal summer diseases that carry OH
one-ffth of all the babies before they
are a year old.
The slight attack or diarrhoea that a
child fed on lactated rood rapidly over
comes, prostrates the infant VINO nus
not been keeping up its strength pe-
cause the heat has robbed him or all
annette for ordinary food.
More persons will die curing the COM
ing two months than at any other
time of the year.
And the greatest proportion or these
deaths" says the New York Press,
will strike down children under hVe
yeass. and from six To eight out OF
every 10 will be traced by the board OF
health to the ignorance or careessness
of mothers. who will mourn the loss
of their children as sincerely and deep
| ly as any mother could.
| The greatest source OF mortality this
month and next will be Intestinal DIS
eases, due TO improper food, whlch
sows the seeds of diarrhoea and chol-
| era. Hot viking nights ripen them
| into full fruition.
Boards of health, physicians ana
mothers agree that there are but two
ways by which babies lives may be alb
solutely insured against cholera infan-
| tum and the wasting disorders or hot
weather. one is healthy, abundant
mothers milk, and the other IS lactat-
ed food In thousands OF homes where
love and watchfulness seem 10 have
| surrounded baby with every safeguard
| the two conditions lead to cholera in
fantum often exist-an unnutrltlous
| diet and the possibility of contagion In
| food.
There is no reason today why young
children should not receive perfect
nourishment and be- Kept absolutely
free from any possibility Of contagion.
Lactated food is always obtainable,
and children OF every age take II ea-
gerly and retain II on their stomachs.
Physicians and nurses who have
watched the growth OF large families
OF children, know how nutritious, how
easily digested and how absolutely
pure laotated food is. and how eagerly
It is taken by children that can not
take other nOurishment.
Mothers who have no settled plan for
feeding the , children. but drift along
into hot weather, giving them all sorts
OF food. hoping and praying they Will
get through the summer, have every
reason 10 dread the hot weather and
the cholera infantum which is now rag
ing I'm every city In the country.
Mothers who have had large expert
ence with sick cnildren emphasize th'
fact that houses where lactated foo'
, rs used escape wasting diseases I'm
, most significant manner.
! Lactated food Is prepared with IN
: true scientific knowledge that nothin
!. better can be done than TO follow ma
! ture as closely as .ossiblf In the feed
n ing of young children. Lactated food
- most Ike mothers milk. Pure mil
A. sugar is the basis because II Is ais
To the basis Of mothers milk: there
al added the richest gluten -four OF whea
70 and oats. These are subjected e. hig
steam heat, I, "a while In constant mC
n tion and pee tectlv cooked the fines
malt barley is added. thus making
ly partially digcsted food that is easl
he assimilated hy the feeblest stomach.
has protected thousands of little on
from summer ailments and saved the
lives. az IL did In the case ~ the bal
boy ~ Mrs w. 4. Shea of 81 Tremo
rs street. Peabody, Mass whose pictu
as Is given above. Her letter follows:
OF Peabody. Mass. Dec. a. 1895.
zee Wells. Richardson a 90.
,c- Gentlemen .Our babv ia now A
IN months ald and without a blernish
iot is Just pink and white. with large vi
- let eyes and light hair. Ur1s So fat
tlc is all dimples. I must tell Won what
"i think " Lacfated Food I think tho
re- II nothing like H. This ls our scco
baby. n boy. The frs. was Girl. n
nursed her until she was rs mon,
re- old Now. isn't this strange. our h
on would not take the breast. sithou
|. the nurse actually starved him7 Q